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Can I retrieve voicemail messages without turning on cellular data?

Can I retrieve voicemail messages without turning on cellular data?

Posted on Dec 14, 2021 2:24 PM

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Posted on Dec 14, 2021 2:26 PM

Not on the iPhone itself. Visual Voicemail transfers the messages from the carrier’s voicemail server to the phone, and it can only do that using cellular data, because the carrier doesn’t know anything about your Wi-Fi connection. You can still call the carrier’s voicemail to listen to the messages.

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Dec 14, 2021 2:26 PM in response to wembleyo

Not on the iPhone itself. Visual Voicemail transfers the messages from the carrier’s voicemail server to the phone, and it can only do that using cellular data, because the carrier doesn’t know anything about your Wi-Fi connection. You can still call the carrier’s voicemail to listen to the messages.

Can I retrieve voicemail messages without turning on cellular data?

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