How to turn off visual voicemail

Hi my carrier doesn´t offer this service, I need desactivate, What can I do?

If you are worried about the small amount of data that VVM will cause you then you really don't need a smart phone to begin with. You obviously want an old flip phone because that is all you want. VVM is part of the iphone and there is no way to get rid of it. In fact using the old voicemail you would use up more minutes trying to find a voicemail you wanted to listen to. Wjosten was accurate in his reply. You just didn't want to hear the truth.

That's not a very nice to say especially since you can't know how this affects him/her. I too HATE visual voicemail. I'm have a tech background, use my smartphone ALL the time but the visual voicemail doesn't work well and I don't want it. So your comment that this person doesn't want to hear the truth isn't accurate in my case. What we need is an answer not a tongue lashing.

Monica Car wrote:

That's not a very nice to say especially since you can't know how this affects him/her. I too HATE visual voicemail. I'm have a tech background, use my smartphone ALL the time but the visual voicemail doesn't work well and I don't want it. So your comment that this person doesn't want to hear the truth isn't accurate in my case. What we need is an answer not a tongue lashing.

You're responding to an almost six year old post from someone I don't recall seeing here in a long time. Do you have a technical suggestion?

Voicemail is a carrier feature, so contact your carrier.

Hoi,

# wjosten: What kind of answer is this?

Yes, voicemail is a carrier feature but visual voicemail is a product of Apple.

I have the same question as Jc033.

Since the latest update, this visual voicemail is appearing on my iphone and i don't want it.

I have a small data package but most of the time i am ofline and watch my mails with wifi on different locations mostly.

When i have a call on voicemail, visual voicemail gives me that red spot on the call-icon and to get rid of it, i have to go online every time.

I also tryed the *5005*86*xxxx# combination but my phone do not except it.

The voicemail existed before this visual voicemail was installed by update, so it makes it a problem for Apple to solve and not for the carrier.

Does anyone has a way to disable this visual voicemail?

brunofromheist wrote:

Does anyone has a way to disable this visual voicemail?

The only way to get rid of Visual Voicemal is to call your carrier and have voicemail turned off. Sorry if you don't like the answer but it's the right one.

Find a carrier that will turn off voicemail.

there is not a carrier whith that function, I need dessactivate this function on my iPhone, help me please

No one here can help you. Exactly what part of:

"Voicemail is a carrier feature."

Do you not understand?

If your carrier won't turn off voicemail, there is nothing you can do other than find a carrier that will.

My carrier offer only voicemail, but not offer VISUAL voicemail, I need set the number of voicemail, because when I press the voicemail my iPhone show me "Can not connect to voicemail".

I tried *5005*86*xxxx# but doesn´t work, Before I had an iphone 3g and in that sequence if it worked

Some of us use UVERSE combined messaging which is not compatible with visual voice mail (bummer).

In the past when the phone upgraded to IOS5 and reinstated visual voice mail I was able to get it to turn off using

*5005*86*UVERSE VOICEMAIL NUMBER as an International Number#

hit home button

hit settings

hit general

hit reset all

This worked on an Iphone 3GS

It did not work with the iPhone 4.

I also tried

**5005*86*UVERSE VOICEMAIL NUMBER as an International Number#

No luck.

There must be a sequence to deactivate this. Clearly the other voice mail number is set-up because dialing 1 gets to the correct voice mail number.

Does anyone know what the correct code is for an iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S?

I have a solution that worked for my iPhone 4 on the AT&T Network.

First go to Settings - General - Network - now turn off celllular data (which is all I could do in AT&) or delete the visual voice mail seetings if you are able to.

Go back and look at your voice mail it should now give you some sort of nasty message about how Visual Voice Mail does not work without a cellular data connection.

Now you can go and do:

*5005*86*UVERSE VOICEMAIL NUMBER as an International Number#

hit home button

hit settings

hit general

hit reset all

In my case the UVERSE number is 1 858 352 6900 so that is what i typed in before the #

When it is done I found the visual voice mail was killed.

I then went back and turned on cellular data and when I went to voice mail visual voice mail was still off.

I had a case where none of the above steps worked. I finally decided to restore the phone as new and that solved the problem. My guess is that sometimes the software can get so messed up that none of the commands will work. If this is the case do a back-up first (cause if this doesn't solve the problem you can always restore to that back-up). Then go ahead do the restore as new and hit the voice mail key to see if it works. If it does than go and continue with the fresh install. It's a royal pain, but if all else fails it can help.

Try *5005*86xxxxxxxxxx# just omit the second * following the two digits 86 but dial your 3-digit area code including your entire 7-digit(?) phone number...

It worked for me 🙂