Leaving a Voice Mail Message to Yourself?

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Leaving a Voice Mail Message to Yourself?

Can you leave a voice mail message to yourself using the iPhone? With previous cell phones, I have been able to do this by simply calling the phone itself and getting into voice mail. This has been a handy way to leave little messages to myself--sort of like jotting a post-it note.

That capability seems to be missing from the iPhone, but perhaps I am overlooking a way to do this?

Posted on Jul 19, 2007 9:13 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 22, 2007 7:44 PM in response to pinerob

No workarounds at this point. Thats why a lot of business folks are sticking with their windows smartphones and the recording features.

Another option is to call your work phone number and leave a message for yourself there, rather than your own...or call your home phone if you have one anymore and leave a message there.

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Answer 2

PTBoater

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Jul 19, 2007 9:24 PM in response to John-Mark Stensvaag

What happens when you call yourself on the iPhone?

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nycruza

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Jul 22, 2007 8:52 PM in response to nycruza

Call yourself by pressing and holding "1"
Go to Personal Options
Go to Password
Turn password off or on as required!

ajm

DISREGARD!
Doesn't work!

ajm

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pinerob

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Jul 19, 2007 9:57 PM in response to ihopeitworks

No, when you called your own number the cell service would go directly to your voicemail so you could leave yourself a message because your phone was busy "making a call". To check your voicemail messages, at least on Cingular, you would just press and hold the #1 on the keypad...this function would dial the voicemail number which was different than your number.

On the iphone, when you call yourself it automatically logs you in to the voicemail service so that you can check your voicemails...I havent' found a way of leaving myself a voicemail using my iphone...anybody else found a way?

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Answer 5

Jul 22, 2007 10:56 AM in response to John-Mark Stensvaag

You should be able to call yourself. Make sure you don't have call forwarding on, and maybe turn off call waiting if you want to go directly to the voice mail to leave a message.

OR, call yourself from another phone and leave a message. That should work, if all else fails.

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Kat566

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Jul 22, 2007 11:01 AM in response to Catherine Jackson

OR you could always put the reminder in your calendar and set an alert to go off as a reminder

OR you could jot it down in Notes

OR you could add a note to a contact or existing Calendar appointment

OR you could set a regular alarm and give it a custom Label as a reminder

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4n6doc

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Jul 22, 2007 11:04 AM in response to Catherine Jackson

You should be able to call yourself. Make sure you
don't have call forwarding on, and maybe turn off
call waiting if you want to go directly to the voice
mail to leave a message.

When you dial your own number, it goes into the voicemail menu where you can listen to your messages, so that doesn't work.

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Kat566

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Jul 22, 2007 11:59 AM in response to 4n6doc

I tried it too, after reading this thread, and I had the same experience that it automatically logged me in -- I did not have to enter a password as I did with all my prior phones regardless of carrier.

So if you really want to leave yourself a voicemail, you have to call yourself from a different phone.

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pinerob

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Jul 22, 2007 7:36 PM in response to Kat566

Kat,

Good ideas...however, what would suggest someone do if they are driving down the road and can't take their hands off the wheel to do this data entry?

I would normally do the data entry you suggest but these are new thoughts that occur to me while I am driving.

That's my problem...and in the past I resolved it by leaving myself a voicemail. It was the easiest and safest option in my opinion.

Any workarounds from anyone?

thanks

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Answer 10

Jul 23, 2007 6:33 AM in response to John-Mark Stensvaag

Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions so far. I had thought of the work and home voice mail options, and that is a workaround, although disturbing my sleeping wife during my 5:30 a.m. walk when some brilliant thought hits me might not be the best solution!

I have also used the "jot a note to yourself" option--won't work while driving, of course--but of course notes do not yet sync to the PC. (I am confident that will come eventually, and probably elegantly.) The calendar item with alarm was also a good idea--again, not suitable while driving, of course.

I have great faith in Apple, which is why I don't take all this "why won't my iPhone do this?" whining very seriously. I anticipate that it is only a matter of time some aspect of voice recording (and probably even speed dialing) works its way to the iPhone.

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Answer 11

Jul 19, 2007 9:25 PM in response to John-Mark Stensvaag

How is that possible? Without visual voice mail the only way to check voicemail was to call into your phone by using your phone, so how is it possible you did this on another phone?

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nycruza

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Jul 22, 2007 8:46 PM in response to John-Mark Stensvaag

Call yourself by pressing and holding "1"
Go to Personal Options
Go to Password
Turn password off or on as required!

ajm

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cderalow

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Jul 23, 2007 6:39 AM in response to John-Mark Stensvaag

record over your outgoing greeting for voicemail, and just make sure to leave it set to use default in the case that someone else calls you?

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