Voicemails delayed on iPhone

iPhone 14 pro voicemail notifications are delayed by hours or days. Latest iOS and carrier update. We are open to iOS fix suggestions if not on the carrier level.



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iPhone 14 Pro

Posted on Aug 19, 2023 11:22 AM

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Nov 1, 2023 2:37 PM in response to ThereforeITouch

I'm seeing similar.

No voicemail notification, but if I go to the Phone app, and tap Voicemail, all of a sudden it is there.

Today I noticed I'd had a missed call yesterday (16 hours ago), but not the usual follow up text that Telstra (Australia) sends saying "you had a missed call but they didn't leave a message". Weird I thought, no voicemail, and no missed call text.

So I open the voicemail app, where a previous voicemail message is still open. Click the back button to go to the main voicemail screen, all of a sudden, bing bing, you've just received a voicemail. It was from 16 hours ago.


I'll add that this started happening when i got my new iPhone 15. Same carrier, new phone.

Nov 7, 2023 3:17 PM in response to lobsterghost1

This EXACT issue has been happening to me since I bought my iPhone 14. And I’m a TMobile user, so it’s certainly not a Verizon issue. I’ve never had hours of delay to receive a VM notification. And it’s not even a notification issue—- the actual VM never shows up until randomly hours or a day later. LOTS of missed messages and unnecessary Delays esp with business calls. This is a problem. YES- I have restarted my phone many times. YES- I’ve gone in to settings - phone - etc. YES- I have the latest iPhone updates. NO- this didn’t happen with my iPhone XS while still using same carrier TMobile. This isn’t a carrier issue.

Nov 9, 2023 3:06 AM in response to forum83

I’ve tried all of the steps above and they didn’t work for me either. It’s definitively an iOS iPhone issue. I’ve had this issue for years. Toggled and played with settings and even upgraded my phone. This isn’t a carrier issue. This is an iOS issue for sure and I’m disappointed Apple has refused to address this or fix this for years.

Nov 9, 2023 10:53 AM in response to lobsterghost1

I have an iphone 12 pro running ios 16 on AT&T and I’ve had this problem for years. I usually just have to restart my phone for them to pop up if I’m expecting a call back from someone, otherwise they always pop up hours or days later. It’s very annoying and as of the day of this post, even restarting my phone doesn’t work. I just had a missed call and saw an icon for a new vm and when I opened it the icon went away and there was no new message showing. Very frustrating since I use my phone for work.

Nov 15, 2023 3:05 PM in response to Its_me0

We have been testing iOS 17.1


Apple introduced live transcribing of voicemails and this has helped delivery of the voicemail notifications.


it is not 100% and we are still testing, but I would suggest trying iOS 17.


We also raised a ticket directly with the executive team at Verizon… they may have actually fixed something. We will never really know.. large companies rarely admit to an issue. (remember Apple throttling based on battery health)


We will keep this thread updated with our testing and results. Please keep replying if you have this issue.. it’s our belief this issue is VERY common.. but most people don’t say anything.


Voicemails delayed on iPhone

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