How to forward texts and voicemail to email on iPhone?

ohmyappleflavored wrote:

Is there a way to have texts and voicemail forwarded to my email to help bridge that gap between lost phone and getting a replacement phone going?

You should be able to dial into your voicemail from any phone. The procedure may vary by carrier so check your carrier's website for instructions. For Verizon, if I recall, you dial your number, when you hear the recording, you interrupt it by pressing #. You'll be asked for your passcode. Once you put that in, you'll be given a prompt menu. Your carrier should have instructions for resetting the password if you've forgotten that.

You should be able to see your iMessages on your Mac or iPad with the same Apple Account. SMS/RCS require a phone. At some point, my carrier had a web interface for messages (don't know if they still do) but you had to have set it up while you still had access to the phone. Contact your carrier to see if there's anything they can do to help.

Voicemail is easy:

• Open the Phone app and tap Voicemail at the bottom of the screen. 
• Tap the voicemail you want to forward.
• Tap the Share button (a square with an upward arrow). 
• Select Mail from the sharing options. 
• Enter the recipient's email address, add a subject or message if desired, and tap Send.

Text messages are less easy. The simplest thing would be to take a screenshot of the message(s), save it to your photos and then forward the photo of the message to the email recipient you want.

ohmyappleflavored wrote:

Not the case now but in the event the phone function is entirely unavailable on my busted phone and no one around that it’s safe to ask to borrow a phone to call my voicemail, it seems it’s a rare enough occurrence a person should just plan to be out of touch until a replacement phone is online.

I completely missed this was a hypothetical, in case your phone is out of commission question. Apologies.

I can access my voicemail via AT&T without having my phone, so IdrisSeabright is correct that you should find out how to do that through your carrier. In my case, I have an iPad, MacBook Pro and Apple Watch Ultra, so I would get text messages without a functioning phone regardless.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

In my case, I have an iPad, MacBook Pro and Apple Watch Ultra, so I would get text messages without a functioning phone regardless.

Would you still get the SMS/RCS messages on your iPad and MBP if there were no iPhone at all (even though the number was still active)? I thought the phone had to be turned on and connected to a network. I've no personal experience with this.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

lobsterghost1 wrote:

In my case, I have an iPad, MacBook Pro and Apple Watch Ultra, so I would get text messages without a functioning phone regardless.

Would you still get the SMS/RCS messages on your iPad and MBP if there were no iPhone at all (even though the number was still active)? I thought the phone had to be turned on and connected to a network. I've no personal experience with this.

That's a good question and one I don't have an answer to. I know I would get messages on my watch as it's cellular. I don't have to have my iPhone with me, nor does it have to be powered on. For iPad and Mac, I suspect you may be right that the phone would need to be connected to a network somehow.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

That's a good question and one I don't have an answer to. I know I would get messages on my watch as it's cellular. I don't have to have my iPhone with me, nor does it have to be powered on. For iPad and Mac, I suspect you may be right that the phone would need to be connected to a network somehow.

Yeah, I'm just not sure. I was hoping you knew, oh, Wise One! Agreed on the Watch.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

lobsterghost1 wrote:

That's a good question and one I don't have an answer to. I know I would get messages on my watch as it's cellular. I don't have to have my iPhone with me, nor does it have to be powered on. For iPad and Mac, I suspect you may be right that the phone would need to be connected to a network somehow.

Yeah, I'm just not sure. I was hoping you knew, oh, Wise One! Agreed on the Watch.

Not so wise today! Nope!