How to get your voicemail on iphone

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

• Access voicemail
• Listen to a voicemail
• Share or save a voicemail 

Access voicemail

1. From the home screen select the 

2. Select the Voicemail tab.

Note: Alternatively, from the phone app, select the Keypad tab > select and hold the 1 key > if prompted, enter your voicemail password > follow the prompts to listen to your messages.

Listen to a voicemail

1. Select the desired message.

2. Select the corresponding icon:

• PLAY/PAUSE: Select the Play icon to play the message. Select the Pause icon to pause the message.

• SPEAKER: Select the Speaker icon to enable or disable speaker mode.

• CALL BACK: Select the Call back icon to call back the phone number.

• DELETE: Select the Delete icon to delete the voicemail.

Note: A transcription of the voicemail message will appear at the bottom of the voicemail options.

Share or save a voicemail

Leanne Hays is a Feature Writer at iPhone Life, and has written hundreds of in-depth how-to and troubleshooting articles. She's a former Associate Editor for iPhone Life magazine, and has written for the Iowa Source, as well as web content for education marketing. Leanne has an associate's degree in education, with a focus on curriculum development, as well as a bachelor's degree in science. She has over nine years of experience with SEO, social media management, and web development and writing. Despite years of web work, Leanne is by no means an early adapter; she's only owned a smartphone for five years, which makes her highly sympathetic to the learning curve of new iPhone owners. She enjoys making reader's lives easier and putting her education experience to work by walking them through the most practical ways to use Apple devices, step-by-step.

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Before you start

This guide will show you how to access your voicemail and activate call forward to your voicemail.

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Select Phone

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Select Voicemail

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Select Call Voicemail

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Calling Voicemail

If your voicemail is calling like on this screen, your phone is set up correctly. If not, follow the next few steps.

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Select Keypad

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Enter the Voicemail number and select Call

**004*#

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Select Dismiss

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Call forwarding to your Voicemail is set up

You can easily deactivate call forwarding to your Voicemail. Just go to step 6 and enter ##002#.

Your iPhone organizes voicemails automatically, making them a snap to browse and play. To retrieve and listen to voicemail messages, touch the Phone icon on the home screen, then tap the Voicemail symbol at the bottom of the screen. Press the “Play” button next to any message to hear it.

Setting Up iPhone Visual Voicemail

When you get a new iPhone, it’s a good idea to set up voicemail options as soon as you can, so it will be ready to retrieve voice messages. On the iPhone, touch the “Phone” icon, then tap the “Voicemail” symbol. Tap the box that says “Set Up Now.” Enter a voicemail password code, tap “Done,” then enter it again to verify the code and tap “Done” again. Select “Custom” to record a personal greeting, and tap “Done” to save the greeting.

Browsing Voicemail Messages

When callers leave voicemails, the iPhone automatically organizes them in the order they were received, with recent ones sorting to the top of the list, and older ones moving to the bottom. The iPhone shows the caller name, the date and the length of the message. Caller name information comes automatically from your Contacts app. To browse through iPhone visual voicemail, swipe up and down to scroll through the list. Swipe left on any message to see a “Delete” button.

Voicemail Playback Controls

Tap any call voicemail message to bring up the playback controls. Tap the “Play” button to play a message. Slide the small moving dot back and forth to skip part of the message or hear it again. Tap the “Pause” button to pause playback at any time. Tap “Speaker” to hear the voicemail through the phone’s speaker. Tap “Delete” to remove the voicemail. Tap “Call Back” to automatically dial the caller’s number.

Managing iPhone Visual Voicemail

Voicemail stays in your iPhone indefinitely until you remove the messages, provided your wireless provider account has enough storage space. You can delete old voicemails by tapping “Edit,” tapping the check mark next to the messages you want to remove, and then tap “Done.” Note that though the messages you delete are gone from the main list, they are still in your account, letting you recover a message deleted by mistake. Though this is handy, deleted voicemails tie up space in your account, which might lead to your mailbox becoming full and accepting no new messages. To permanently wipe voicemails from your iPhone, scroll all the way to the bottom of the list, where you’ll find an entry marked “Deleted Messages.” Tap it to see the list of deleted messages. Tap “Clear all” to remove them, then verify the action. This frees up space for new voicemails.

Retrieve Messages Without Visual Voicemail

Some iPhone users are more comfortable getting their voicemail without the extra bells and whistles. In this case, use the iPhone like any phone: tap the "Phone" icon, dial your own phone number and follow the instructions from your wireless service provider for accessing your voicemail. For example, you might press the pound key ("#") when your recorded greeting plays, then navigate the voicemail system with the number keys. Your service provider might also have a "speed dial" type shortcut, such as dialing "*86" instead of the whole phone number.

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