Setting up FRITZ!App Fon FRITZ!
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FRITZ!App Fon
Setting up FRITZ!App Fon
FRITZ!App Fon allows you to conveniently
make telephone calls over the FRITZ!Box with
your smartphone when you are at home - the
smartphone functions as an IP telephone. You
can also use FRITZ!App Fon with several
FRITZ!Boxes; this means that you make calls
over different FRITZ!Boxes, depending on
your location. To do so, you have to register
FRITZ!App Fon once with each FRITZ!Box as
described here. Once it is registered, you can
also make calls over a VPN connection.
Besides making calls from home, you can
then also make calls over the FRITZ!Box no
matter where you are.
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Requirements / Restrictions
FRITZ!OS 7 or later is installed on the
FRITZ!Box.
iOS 12.0 or later or Android 7.0 or later is
installed on the smartphone or tablet.
FRITZ!App Fon cannot be registered or
used over the Wi-Fi guest access.
Various FRITZ!Box functions cannot be
used with FRITZ!App Fon. These include
call transfer, busy on busy, call-back on
busy / no response, do not disturb
function for individual numbers, the
ability to control certain FRITZ!Box
functions such as enabling or disabling
Wi-Fi, loading factory settings, or setting
up call diversions.
1 Configuring the FRITZ!Box
to allow access for
applications
In the factory settings, the FRITZ!Box is
configured to allow applications to access it.
If you changed the FRITZ!Box's settings,
configure it to allow applications to access it
again:
1. Click "Home Network" in the FRITZ!Box
user interface.
2. Click "Network" in the "Home Network"
menu.
3. Click on the "Network Settings" tab.
4. If available, click "Additional Settings" in
the section "WAN setting" or "LAN
Settings" to display all of the settings.
5. Enable the option "Allow access for
applications" in the section "Access
Settings in the Home Network". If the
section is not displayed, enable the
Advanced View first.
6. Click "Apply" to save the settings.
2 Setting up a Wi-Fi
connection to the FRITZ!Box
When setting up the app, the smartphone or
tablet must be connected with the
FRITZ!Box's Wi-Fi network (not the guest
network):
1. Set up the Wi-Fi connection to the
FRITZ!Box.
3 Installing FRITZ!App Fon
1. Download FRITZ!App Fon from the Google
Play Store or the Apple App Store and
install the app on your smartphone.
2. Start FRITZ!App Fon.
3. Enter the FRITZ!Box password. If you are
asked to enter a username and password,
enter the account information of a
FRITZ!Box user who is authorized to use
FRITZ!App Fon.
You can edit the account
information and access rights of
users under "System > FRITZ!Box
Users" in the user interface.
4. On the FRITZ!Box, confirm that the
procedure may be executed if asked to do
so.
FRITZ!App Fon is now automatically
configured as an IP telephone on the
"LAN/Wi-Fi" port in the FRITZ!Box.
4 Assigning telephone
numbers
1. Start FRITZ!App Fon.
2. Tap the the three-dot menu on the top
right (Android) or "More" (iOS) and then
tap "Settings".
3. If you are using FRITZ!App Fon in iOS, tap
"Telephone Numbers".
4. Under "Outgoing calls", select the number
to be used by FRITZ!App Fon for making
calls.
5. Under "Incoming Calls", specify which
telephone numbers FRITZ!App Fon should
react to when you receive calls.
5 Enabling calls to
international and premium
numbers
After setting up telephony, you can only make
national calls and calls to emergency
numbers. You can disable this security
feature:
1. Click "Telephony" in the FRITZ!Box user
interface.
2. Click "Telephone Numbers" in the
"Telephony" menu.
3. Click on the "Line Settings" tab.
4. Click on "Change selection" in the section
"Security".
5. Uncheck the boxes for all of the IP
telephones that are allowed to dial
international and premium numbers.
6. Click "OK" to save the settings and on the
FRITZ!Box, confirm that the procedure
may be executed if asked to do so.
6 Configuring FRITZ!App Fon
for VPN
If you set up the VPN connection in Android or
iOS, you can use FRITZ!App Fon in Android
over the VPN connection without configuring
any other settings. The following settings are
necessary in iOS:
1. Start FRITZ!App Fon.
2. Tap "More" and then "Settings".
3. Tap "Select FRITZ!Box".
4. Tap "Enter the IP address manually".
5. Instead of entering fritz.box, enter the
local IP address of the FRITZ!Box
(192.168.178.1 in the factory settings).
7 Selecting a telephone book
With FRITZ!App Fon you can access the local
contacts on your telephone and all of the
FRITZ!Box telephone books, regardless of
whether the telephone books are saved in the
FRITZ!Box or you are using a telephone book
of an email account:
Allowing access to contacts
in iOS
In order for FRITZ!App Fon to access the local
contacts on your iOS device in iOS, you must
enable access to your contacts for FRITZ!App
Fon:
1. Open the iOS settings.
2. Tap "Privacy" and then "Contacts".
3. Allow FRITZ!App Fon access to the
contacts.
Switching telephone books
1. Start FRITZ!App Fon.
2. Tap "Phone book".
3. In iOS, tap "Switch To"; in Android, tap the
menu key and then "Select telephone
book".
4. Tap the telephone book you want to use
with FRITZ!App Fon. "Phone contacts" or
"iPhone contacts" are the local contacts
on your telephone. The names displayed
for the FRITZ!Box telephone books are the
names you gave them in the FRITZ!Box
user interface.
When you start FRITZ!App Fon now, the app
automatically connects to the FRITZ!Box and
remains active in the background. This way
you can make calls quickly and directly over
the FRITZ!Box. If you also use other telephony
apps (such as Joyn) on your smartphone, you
must always start FRITZ!App Fon before you
start the other telephony apps because
otherwise automatic registration with the
FRITZ!Box may fail.
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