How to set up visual voicemail on iPhone (plus how it works) - Pocket-lint

(Pocket-lint) - If you're a caller iPhone user, you whitethorn beryllium wondering however voicemail works connected your caller phone. Apple calls its voicemail diagnostic successful the iPhone's default Phone app "visual voicemail".

Compatible with prime carriers, ocular voicemail shows an existent ocular database of your messages. You tin take which to play and delete without having to perceive to them all. You tin besides spot transcriptions (in immoderate English-speaking countries), which means your messages are transcribed into text. If you're funny astir ocular voicemail, including however to acceptable it up, present is everything you request to know.

How to acceptable up voicemail connected iPhone

First clip mounting up voicemail

The archetypal clip you pat Voicemail successful the Phone app, you'll beryllium asked to make a voicemail password and grounds your voicemail greeting.

1. Open the Phone app and pat the Voicemail tab.
2. Tap Set Up Now.
3. Create a voicemail password.
4. Choose a greeting: Default oregon Custom
5. If you take Custom, you tin grounds a caller greeting.

How play and delete voicemails connected iPhone

Siri

To play, share, oregon delete a voicemail message, you tin simply inquire Siri thing like: “Play the voicemail from Maggie".

Phone app

You tin spell to Voicemail successful the Phone app connected your iPhone to afloat negociate your messages.

1. Open the Phone app.
2. Tap the Voicemail tab, past pat a message.
3. Do immoderate of the following:
   • Play the message: Tap Play button.
   • Share the message: Tap Share button
   • Delete the message: Tap Trash button.

Note: Messages are saved until you oregon your bearer erases them. To retrieve a deleted message, pat Deleted Messages, pat the message, past pat Undelete.

How to spot voicemail transcriptions connected iPhone

Voicemail transcriptions are portion of the ocular voicemail diagnostic - but constricted to the iPhone 6s oregon later.

1. Open the Phone app and navigate to the Voicemail tab.
2. Tap connected a voicemail to transcribe it.
3. If the voicemail hasn't been transcribed before, you whitethorn spot "Transcribing Voicemail…".
4. The transcription should soon appear.
5. When you revisit the voicemail, the transcription should look erstwhile you pat it.
6. You whitethorn spot immoderate blanks if Apple is incapable to find what the caller said.

How to archer if your iPhone supports ocular voicemail

Visual voicemail is lone disposable connected the iPhone from prime carriers successful prime countries oregon regions. You tin spot the afloat database of supported carriers in the US here and in Europe here.

How to perceive your messages if ocular voicemail isn't working

If your transportation isn't reliable, ocular voicemail mightiness not beryllium available. Whatever the crushed whitethorn be, you tin ever cheque your messages from your iPhone oregon adjacent from different phone.

• On your iPhone: Tap the Voicemail tab successful the Phone app, past travel Apple's instructions to entree your messages.
• Or, from different phone: Dial your ain mobile number, property * oregon # (depending connected your carrier) to bypass your greeting, past participate your voicemail password.
  • Need to alteration your voicemail password? Go to Settings   > Phone > Change Voicemail Password, past participate the caller password.

How to alteration your voicemail greeting connected iPhone

To alteration your greeting astatine immoderate time, unfastened the Phone app, past pat the Voicemail tab, and spell to Greeting. From there, set your voicemail greeting. Simples.

Want to cognize more?

Check retired Apple's enactment leafage for iPhone voicemails for much details.

Writing by Maggie Tillman.