Work remotely from your home, by the pool or at your friendly neighborhood cafe; the 3CX app for iOS let’s you take your office extension along for the ride no matter the destination! Access your company phonebook, make and receive calls, chat with colleagues, attend to customers with website live chat and hold a video conference from the palm of your hand.
How to set up your extension in the 3CX app for iOS
If you haven’t already, install the iOS app; it’s free and available from the App store.
Note: Your company PBX must be running 3CX V16 Update 5 or above to use the 3CX iOS app, which uses the latest Apple technology for a more reliable experience. Check with your administrator if you are not sure of the version you are using.
- Open the app, read and accept the license agreement and authorize the various permissions the app needs (camera, microphone).
- Scan the QR code from your Welcome Email or the Web Client to automatically configure your extension. You’re now “Ready for calls”.
How to locate your 3CX QR code
There are two ways to find your unique QR code:
- In your Welcome Email as an attachment. If you can’t locate yours, with the subject “Welcome to 3CX!”, ask your administrator to resend it.
- In your Web Client go to “Settings > Scan QR Code”
And that’s it! Let’s get started.
Making a call on your iOS device
Using the iOS app to make a call is as straightforward as making a call from your smartphone’s native call function. Simply enter a number via the dialpad and press call, or view contacts and search by name, extension number or email address. Press on the contact to enter the contact menu and select “Call”. Congrats! You just made your first call with the 3CX iOS app.
You can easily perform a number of actions on an active call including:
- “Transfer” will allow you to perform two types of transfers.
- “Blind Transfer” – transfer the call directly without addressing the receiver.
- “Att. Transfer” – transfer the call after first speaking to the receiver.
- “Conference” allows you to add more participants to the call.
- “Rec” enables you to record the conversation.
- “Video” let’s you take your call up a notch by adding video to the mix.
- “New call” places the current call on hold to make a new one.
Schedule a conference call in moments
Press the menu icon and select the Conference option. Here you can view scheduled conferences or create a new one and invite participants from your contacts or by email.
Create video meetings on the go
With integrated video calling, you can join meetings from wherever you are with your smartphone device. Simply press the video button to add it to a call or, for a scheduled video conference, go to “Settings > Conference”, select the meeting and press join.
Share your availability with Status
The status feature is a great way to inform your colleagues whether or not it’s OK to call you. Not only does this enable you to create a distraction free zone, it also helps your colleagues to handle calls more efficiently.
Choose from Available, Away, Do Not Disturb, Business Trip and Set Status Temporarily.
You can customize your status and configure forwarding rules by pressing on the arrow next to the status.
3CX iOS app settings
From the Settings menu you can easily switch between accounts and view their details as well as add a new extension.
Access Settings by pressing the menu icon at the top. From here you can also:
- Create a conference.
- View and manage voicemails.
- View audio and troubleshooting settings.
- Scan a QR code.
