Alexa: phone call setup simply explained

If you want to make phone calls with Alexa, you first need to set up this feature. After that, you can call contacts on your Echos, leave them messages, or even make calls to your mobile contacts.

How it works: set up phone calls with Alexa

Amazon Echo offers many convenient features. This also includes making phone calls via Alexa. If you have several Echos in your household, this is particularly practical as a home phone. To make it work, you need to set up the function.To be able to make phone calls via Alexa, you need to make some settings in the app:

1. First, make sure you have the latest version of the Alexa app installed on your smartphone.
2. Now open the Alexa app and tap on the speech bubble.
3. Follow the instructions in the app to set up the phone call. Read the steps carefully as you do so.
4. Confirm your phone number finally.
5. Allow Alexa to import your smartphone's contacts.
6. Now switch back to the app's home screen. Open "General."
7. Tap then on "Drop In." Determine here whether "Only my household" can call you or any user from your contact list who also uses the Alexa app.

Now say "Alexa, call [contact]" or "Alexa, start video call with [contact]", you make a call with Alexa. Erhalten Sie hingegen einen Anruf, macht sich dies durch einen Klingelton und ein grünes Leuchten von Alexa bemerkbar.