September 20, 2026
You can now call the OpenClaw agent over FaceTime: it responds in 27 seconds
The FaceTime plugin was merged into OpenClaw on 20.09.2026: calls work both ways, audio only for now.
Peter Steinberger 🦞
@steipete
Your claw can now call you on FaceTime!
Give your Claw FaceTime (coming soon). This was the longest I've worked on any @openclaw feature. FaceTime support (audio for now). It wasn't till Opus 5 and GPT-Sol 5.6 that I could really cross the finish line. You can call your claw, your claw can call you. It supports GPT-live. Currently experimental and should arrive in the next release. https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/facetime/
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Omar Shahin spent longer on this OpenClaw feature than on any other: 54 commits and a month and a half.
On 20.09.2026, his PR #119291 was merged into the main openclaw/openclaw repository. The owner can call the agent, and the agent can call the owner. Only FaceTime Audio works; the plugin rejects cellular and Wi-Fi calls.
It used to require a patch. The request was opened on 04.08.2026, and the first working prototype ran on a locally patched OpenClaw 2026.7.2-beta.3. The code now lives in the project repository, in the extensions/facetime folder.
Installation takes two steps. First, `openclaw plugins install @openclaw/facetime`, then the native helper: `brew install openclaw/tap/openclaw-facetime`. The plugin is then enabled in the config, a list of ownerHandles (email or phone) is set, along with the OPENAI_API_KEY key for the realtime service. Before the first call, run facetime.preflight; the agent places calls with facetime.dial.
The requirements are strict: an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 14.4 or later, OpenClaw 2026.9.4, full Xcode in /Applications/Xcode.app, and an Apple Account sign-in. The plugin uses private Apple APIs and injects a helper into calling apps, so the docs call for a separate physical Mac with debugging protection disabled.
The conversation is not fast yet. The PR measured 27 seconds from a spoken question to reply audio when the agent uses tools along the way. Speedups were moved to separate issue #153308, and the plugin supports exactly one simultaneous call.
The plugin is disabled by default and marked experimental; it is slated to arrive in the next OpenClaw release.
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