Setting up voicemail on your iPhone can be a confusing business. There's no voicemail app on your iPhone that provides quick access to the main voicemail options, so you'll need to check with your individual mobile network provider to see what voicemail options are available and how much they cost. However, there are a number of key features that you need to know about when using voicemail.

How to stop iPhone calls going straight to voicemail. Whenever you sign up to a new mobile network or switch to a new tariff, you should ask if voicemail is included in the tariff. Some tariffs include voicemail as part of your monthly contract, but many will charge you extra for using voicemail. Some networks charge a flat monthly fee to use voicemail, while others charge for each individual voicemail message, or charge by the minute while you're connected to the voicemail system.

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Turning voicemail on or off is generally quite straightforward, as you just need to dial a special number on your phone. With Vodafone you dial to turn on your voicemail, or to turn it off, and most other networks work in a similar fashion.

How to block callers using unknown or hidden numbers. For example, If you are with EE you can dial from any phone and just enter your voicemail PIN to listen to your messages.

How to update iOS on iPhone or iPad. Most mobile networks allow you to contact your voicemail system from another phone. Many people complain that they sometimes miss calls on their iPhone because it only rings three times before diverting the call to your voicemail system.

The length of time that your iPhone will ring before activating voicemail is actually controlled by your mobile network. However, most networks do allow you to adjust the length of time that the phone rings before switching to voicemail by dialing in a long code number.

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Read more about stopping your answerphone kicking in too quickly here: How to stop my iPhone going to voicemail after three rings. Apple orange call divert options iphone one of the first companies to include Visual Voicemail on its phones, starting way back in Rather than having to dial into your normal voicemail system and listening to recorded messages in a fixed sequence, Visual Voicemail shows you a list of your voicemail calls on your screen and lets you listen to them in any order simply by tapping the call in the list.

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Unfortunately, UK networks have been slow to adopt Visual Voicemail, and it currently just seems to be O2, EE and Orange that offer it to iPhone users. The number of messages that your voicemail system can store will vary from network to network — Virgin provides a free voicemail option that stores just 10 messages at a time, but you have to pay extra for its VoiceMail Plus service, which stores up to 30 messages. The length of the message counts too, so BT Mobile lets you store a maximum of minutes at a time, with individual voicemails capped at seven minutes each.

Some networks also limit individual voicemails to just two minutes. You can delete individual voicemails as you listen to them, and most networks will automatically delete old voicemails after 30 days. However, few networks offer a simple way of deleting multiple voicemail messages when your mailbox is full — unless you can use an option such as Visual Voicemail, which lets you delete messages with a quick tap of your finger.

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