Voicemails delayed on iPhone

I should add, it’s not just that the notifications didn’t appear. I never got the voicemail message. Not until days later. I called AT&T and they said they fixed it, but we shall see if they really did, or just said they did.

I was having this problem and commented a week or so about it. I knew I had some voicemails in the system even though it wasn’t showing in my phone app. I dialed my phone number from my iPhone, put in my code, listened to the 26 voicemails that I had and ever since, my voicemails have been showing up on time.

Yes, I have a business and my clients messages are delay hours to days. However, Verizon gas lights me and blames it on my phone (iPhone 14 pro) which I keep on all software updates. I’ve probably lost new business too. ITS NOT THE PHONE!

8 months ago my 11 died and the insurance me a 12pro. Pain in the neck ever since. Getting voice mails hours later ( too darn late to get that dr appointment) and additionally, when using internet on phone all my calls are sent directly to voice mail which doesn’t record or even show up in recent calls!

Furious! Help!

I agree with Jaredfromsaint peter. I’ve had this issue for many years across several generations of iPhones. It’s not limited to the 14 and it’s not a carrier issue, as I see reports from multiple carriers. I currently have a 13 Pro, and voicemail notices are routinely delayed by hours, sometimes as much as 24 hours.

What I’ve noticed is that it seems to delay the notification until I use the phone. When I open the app to make a call or answer an inbound call, the notice will come through.

Same issue here for years, across multiple generations of iPhones and iOS. Currently at iPhone 13 Pro running IOS v. 17.2.1 and using AT&T.

I have tolerated the issue as I typically do not use VM often but I am increasingly forced to do so due to the very large increase in spam calls in recent times and my growing need to use my phone for business purposes.

Has there been any acknowledgement of this issue or, better yet, progress?

I have an iPhone 13 Pro and have the same problem. My entire family has it. My dad has an iPhone 14 Pro Max and has it. And when he had an iPhone 12 Pro Max he experienced it just as much. It’s an issue that hasn’t changed for years and is a huge problem. Even with the introduction of live voicemails it seems like there was no attempt to look into, let alone resolve, this problem.

I have had this voicemail issue intermittently for years. I am in the real estate business and I can't answer my phone immediately all the time. For instance, just this morning at 7:30 AM I received a notification of a voicemail that was left yesterday by a potential customer at 8:56 AM. I am losing business over this, plus I look like an idiot when I try to explain why I didn't call the customer back. I used to have Sprint/T-Mobile and it happened there. I switched over to ATT and it is still happening. I have 4 other phones on my account for family members and none of them is having this problem. This is not cool. This had to be an iphone issue.

Just got home from flight where I had just left my 86 yo father who was recently hospitalized. When I arrived home I checked and no texts or messages. Next AM I called and he was again hospitalized. He said he had called and left VM. I see where he called but i was flying but no Voice mails. Now - a full 16 hours later they are showing up. (Two separate vms). This is after restarting phone earlier today. Dangerous - when so reliant on timely messaging.

I've had a mobile phone, in many formats over more than 30 years, with multiple vendors, telcos and in different countries. One thing is for sure, voicemail delivery has only got a lot worse over the last ten years. I am currently using an iPhone 12 on the Telstra network in Australia and frequently go through periods where voicemail delivery is near instantaneous and periods where it can take several days for delivery.

As with all asynchronous message delivery systems, there are multiple different points of failure that can cause messages to be delayed and even lost. I imagine the majority of these message delay issues are going to be related to message queueing and delivery retry issues in the infrastructure of the telcos, combined with message handling failures in the design of the underlying voicemail delivery technologies. But, the depths of these underlying systems are beyond my ken. Perhaps there might be a telco messaging boffin on here who could be kind enough to elucidate on this for us?

However, there is clearly a more fundamental, non-technical, issue at play here; with the way in which both telcos and the hardware/software vendors (Apple, Google and all the rest) have let the handling of voicemails stagnate and start to smell a bit rotten. We are obviously able to handle real or near real-time messaging systems that handle multimedia these days, in the form of the many messaging apps out there. With all the other messaging technologies competing and winning over voice calls and voicemails we are, no doubt, witnessing a period of pain that will either be a prelude to a major paradigm shift in voicemail handling or the death of telco based voicemail all together. Either way, this has and will continue to be a painful transition for some time to come.

I've had a mobile phone, in many formats over more than 30 years, with multiple vendors, telcos and in different countries. One thing is for sure, voicemail delivery has only got a lot worse over the last ten years. I am currently using an iPhone 12 on the Telstra network in Australia and frequently go through periods where voicemail delivery is near instantaneous and periods where it can take several days for delivery.

As with all asynchronous message delivery systems, there are multiple different points of failure that can cause messages to be delayed and even lost. I imagine the majority of these message delay issues are going to be related to message queueing and delivery retry issues in the infrastructure of the telcos, combined with message handling failures in the design of the underlying voicemail delivery technologies. But, the depths of these underlying systems are beyond my ken. Perhaps there might be a telco messaging boffin on here who could be kind enough to elucidate on this for us?

However, there is clearly a more fundamental, non-technical, issue at play here; with the way in which both telcos and the hardware/software vendors (Apple, Google and all the rest) have let the handling of voicemails stagnate and start to smell a bit rotten. We are obviously able to handle real or near real-time messaging systems that handle multimedia these days, in the form of the many messaging apps out there. With all the other messaging technologies competing and winning over telco based voice calls and voicemails we are, no doubt, witnessing a period of pain that will either be a prelude to a major paradigm shift in telco voice handling or the death of telco based voice handling all together. Either way, this has and will continue to be a painful transition for some time to come.

One thing is for sure, we seem to have been subject to these issues for long enough. It's time for the industry to get this resolved.

I am starting to think about how much missing the more valuable voicemails is costing my business, in terms of reputational damage. Large enterprises must be blissfully unaware of the damage this could be causing them.

Had some success on this, and apologies if its been mentioned earlier in the feed.

Reset the network settings, and cleared out a heap of stored voicemails (incl all deleted messages). Had a colleague leave a fresh voicemail, it appeared straight away.

Not a true fix, but may help.

Telstra (Australia), iPhone 15 Pro.

People have reset network settings and deleted old voicemails a plenty, including me. Only for the issue to happen again.

It is more likely that the back end systems issue that was causing the delays has been cleared and it is only a matter of time before the delays start happening again, when the same back end issue start again.

Recently some of my voicemail messages have been delayed by hours. Don’t know why some are delayed and others are not. This started after the last iOS update! This can be devastating if an urgent message is delayed.

Had the same issue and this seemed to fix it,

iphone voicemail delay fixed. - Apple Community

which made it an iphone issue. I use Tmobile btw