Saving an iPhone voicemail message to a PC

To be honest I think wjosten led you done the wrong path. that program claims voicemail for iOS4, which is a very old version of iOS. Like you, I'm using the latest iOS 6 on my iPhone 4S and I tested my solution before recommending it.

Just use the free demo mode of iExplorer.

I just spent 15 minutes trying to find Voicemail with TouchCopy...I could find them while browsing the phone and the manual for version 12 (the latest) makes no mention of VoiceMail.

You are right, when the manual for version 9 says version 9 and up support removing voicemail for iOS (version) 4 on the iPhone 4...it is misleading, in my opinion.

I'm glad you found a solution to this thread, you should select your own reply as the answer, haha.

Really weird about iExplorer since I didn't have that error. I haven't purchased either program and am still deciding which one to get...so your comments and experience help me.

I looked everywhere, tried several that were too many steps or failed, and finally found a solution, PhoneView.

http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/

It automatically archives from the backup of your iPhone, and voicemails are archived and indexed by date, length and person and can be replayed. It's $30, and can be tried with limited display of what it did so you can see if it works for you. It tried this and immediately bought it.

I would recommend you connect regularly your iPhone to the computer the archives are going to so no voicemails are deleted by your carrier in between archiving.

--relentlesscactus

I really didnt want to go the paid app or software route, since all I needed to do was save an audio copy of a voicemail. So I went the free route.

I use the program Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) for managing other audio files on my PC. It's free, and open source. I took a 1/8' stereo cable, plugged it into my iPhone jack, and the other into the line in input on my PC (the mic in port works too).

Hit the record button on Audacity, then the play button on the voicemail, and thats it - instant audio recording with no background noise. You can save it as a WAV or MP3 file format.

Some of the other apps mentioned here are great if you need to manage SMS, file transfers, etc. But if your just trying to make a copy of a voicemail, this works great.

There is a really easy way. Plug a stereo cable into your headphone jack on your Iphone. Plug the other end into your mic jack on computer. Using a program like Audacity (Free) just record and save.

Hey! I recently download phoneview like you after going through a ton of free trials of software to backup my iphone5s voicemails. When I try to use the program though if get a message that pops up asking me to enter my "iTunes encrypted password." I assumed this just meant my iTunes password but that didn't work. Said something about can't use this program if your iTunes is encrypted. I backup currently using icloud not iTunes so I'm so confused. Did you get this message when you first used the program? If so, how did you fix it? Any info very much appreciated. Thanks!

I recorded the voicemails from my iphone with my husband's iphone with the voice memo feature and then e-mailed them to myself using his phone. I opened them up on my computer and saved them. Was the easiest way for me and it was free.

I used iExplorer by Macroplant and ended up paying the $35 for registration. It worked like a charm and I just pulled my voicemails, messages (incl attachments), and notes from the iphone backup that had been made of my old (destroyed) iphone 4s. I was a bit skeptical at first but was able to send all those voicemails to a folder of my choosing on my desktop. I can now just listen to them like I would any sound file through quicktime.

I have some voicemails from friends and family that I treasure and was prepared to pull the audio using the audio jack and recording software. That would have taken forever but I would have done it. With iExplorer it took about a minute to put every single voicemail from the last 2 1/2 years into that folder. Hundreds of voicemails altogether.

I know this sounds like a product advert but I promise I just found this program after looking at this thread and wanted to mention it worked really well for me.

I'm on a 2011 macbook pro with osx 10.7.

http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/

Here is an easy way and its cost free. Plug an AUX cable into your phones headphones jack. Plug the other end into your mic input on your computer. Get to the voice mail you want to record. Launch a sound recorder. Hit record on sound recorder, then hit play on your device. Watch the time to make sure you record the whole message. Click stop recording when playback is done, then save it as a sound file. Easy peasy. No special software required. Hope this helps everyone. It worked for me when switching devices.

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I use Decipher Voicemail for exporting all my iPhone voicemails. You can save them as mp3 files and play them in iTunes. Great little utility.

I had some absolutely irreplaceable voicemails that I wanted to keep without having to worry about sound quality degradation. Before I could try any of the other methods of exporting them, my phone died and had to be replaced. The voicemails were no longer there (ones over 30 days didn't reappear after the iTunes restore) but luckily I regularly backup my iPhones to iTunes and I hadn't overwritten my last backup.

If you're in a situation like me, you can pull the full quality original voicemails easily from your iTunes backup using iExplorer. I don't know about the trial version, I just went ahead and paid for the $35 license. It was a lifesaver for me. These were completely irreplaceable messages and it all it took was a click of a button in iExplorer to export them from my iTunes backup to anywhere I wanted on my computer. I wanted to share this for anyone else who needs to pull voicemails or other items from an iTunes backup.

Phone: iPhone 5 S running iOS 8 but the last iTunes backup was from iOS 7 something

Computer system: Windows 7 64 bit

For those still looking into this. Decipher Voicemail and iExplorer cost money, but do work.

This is the only way I managed to transfer my voicemails for FREE without re-recording them. You do not have to be tech savvy, the instructions are clear. http://www.howtogeek.com/141164/how-to-backup-iphone-voicemails-to-mp3/