Unable to move small window when making a phone call in Facetime on macOS 10.15.7

Question

It is possible to make audio phone calls directly from macOS using the Facetime app and this works very well. Unfortunately a small Window is placed on the top/right counter of the screen and I cannot seem to be able to move or minimize this window. Has anyone an idea on how to customize the location of this window?

Answer 1

You can't move or minimize the window that supports a call, it's a sort of static notification.

More people are annoyed by this:

• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8095870
• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8085443?page=1

You can disable the notification via System Preferences > Notifications > Facetime by unticking "Badge app icon".

I do appreciate the notification to answer the call. Even though my MacBook has a touch bar which also allows me to Answer/End, Video or Mute. Also note the touch bar doesn't sport the button you need when you have to dial during a call ("Select 1 for department A, Select 2 for department B"). So, you'll need the pop-up.

You can kill the pop-up as documented over here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/313721

(somebody even shared a script for the kill command using an Automator Applet)

Don't forget to provide Apple feedback on this. Even though it's been a few years, hopefully they'll find a better solution than the current notification. https://www.apple.com/feedback/macbook.html