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Q: Recovering old Voice Mail Messages.

My wife recently reset her iPhone 4 and lost all of her saved voice mail messages.  She was able to retrieve messages from the past month.  Though she really wants to recover some messages that were up to a year old.  These messages were from her mother who passed away in the end for December.  Does anyone have a suggestion on how these can be recovered?

 

Thanks

Posted on Jan 22, 2012 5:52 PM

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  • by akasallykim,

    akasallykim akasallykim Sep 16, 2016 12:06 AM in response to richieophth
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    Sep 16, 2016 12:06 AM in response to richieophth

    Thank you so much for this thread/post. My dad passed away 9/2014 and I saved his old voicemails on my iPhone 5s.  recently my iPhone crashed/blue screen of death and I was devastated because I thought I loss all the messages from my dad.  Anyhow, I have updated my iPhone multiple times since then. Most recently 4/2016.

     

    I went to a data recovery place (to try and recover date from my phone) and they quoted me $50 for diagnostics and it could cost between $100-$2000 to recover my data.  I waited because I wanted to research myself.

     

    Tonight, I was googling and found this thread.

     

    I bought the backup-extractor and it worked!!!!   I successfully extracted from my ITune backup file all my voicemails, old and current using http://www.backuptrans.com/itunes-backup-extractor.html  (Windows and MAC versions available).

     

    Thank you so much for this information. Priceless.

  • by KAdamsInCo,

    KAdamsInCo KAdamsInCo Oct 15, 2016 8:07 AM in response to arearef
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    Oct 15, 2016 8:07 AM in response to arearef

    So my wife freaked out this morning. She realized that the voicemails she had saved from her mom had been deleted off her her phone as we upgraded her from an iPhone 6 to a 6s. The good news is that I had been doing backups of her phone, locally on her computer through iTunes.  I browsed this forum and found this post, with the positive reviews of this application:

     

    http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/

     

    I downloaded the free trial and discovered that I could easily browse through all of the iPhone backups I had made, even the encrypted ones (with the password to decrypt the backup, of course). To my wife's delight, every voice mail that was on her phone had been saved, all the way back to 2012!  With the free trial she could listen to the messages, but not export them to files / iTunes.  The $40 price tag to license the product was well worth it, as I was able to easily select the voice mail messages and save them to a folder on the Desktop.  From there she could rename the messages to something meaningful, and then they could be imported into iTunes for long-term retention and easy playback.

     

    Thanks for the suggestion.  It really "saved the day" for both my wife and for me.  :-)

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