Voicemail messages won't delete on 7.0.2

I had the same problem w/ 5s ios7.1 verizon. I just did what you described and voila, visual vm's gone!

Thank you!

I have the same problem and here's what I did on my iPhone 5. a few minutes ago.

1. Went to settings and changed phone to airplane mode.

2. Opened voice mail and did nothing.

3. Exited out of voice mail.

4. Went back to settings and changed phone back from airplane.

5. Opened voice mail and was able to delete my old messages just like that.

What happened I don't know. I just it worked for me.

Hope it work for some of you.

We should not have to go through this much trouble.

Hope Apple has a fix real soon.

This solved my question. This helped me

I have owned iPhones since they first came out and they have always worked perfectly, my Iphone 5 is a totally different story. My voicemail keeps coming back. I have tried everything.

It seems like Android phones are the new standard and Apple iPhones are the new Chevy.

Apple has provided us with several updates, but fix to the voicemail problem.

#iHatemyIphone #MissingSteveJobsQuality #IphonesSuckNow

RealtyMarc -- Not sure why you're "suddenly" having this problem when the fix seems to work for everyone else. I smell an Android user posturing in order to slam Apple. Weak, dude.

Is anyone at Apple working on this? Helloooooooooo?

Once again Apple has mangaged to make their phone not work as a phone.

This doesn't work.

Apples phone is the equivalent of having your desert (Apps) before you have your dinner. Sound great when your 4 years old but when you are mature and realize you first need nutrition (a functional phone) your realize it's not great to eat desert before dinner.

I really would love a phone that the batter lasted more than 1/2 a day & that I could get voicemail on. Currently Apple offers a product called iphone that is anything but. I should be called iComputer, because it is super awesome at lots of high level computing functions (mainly by 3rd party vendors) but really aweful as a phone.

I think they should open up the phone portion of their phone and let people make apps, a third party could do a much better job of making THE PHONE SECTION of this handheld super computer with a 90 minute battery life.

I think Apple shoudl make two phones:

One for people that have jobs - this one would have an all day battery and voice mail that worked and wasn't make of ridiculously fragile materials.

One for people that don't have jobs. This one would be fantastic at games and could hold one million apps and be made of sugar candy or something similarly fragile as the current Iphone and have a 90 min battery life, like the current iphone.

APPLE? Anyone? Hellooooooo?

I've been having the same issue after the 7.1.1 update. Sometimes the voicemail messages will come back 24 hours after I've deleted them from voicemail and the deleted voicemails.

MacsRBest is an FN idiot. I took my iphone 5 into the apple store and even they could fix it. They tried to blame it on AT&T and AT&T points the finger at Apple. I love all of my Apple products, but this is a serious problem for me.

RealtyMarc -- Wow. Angry. Go to therapy much, dude? Get some help. You clearly need it.

I tried the airplane mode thing and it worked - until I turned off airplane mode. When I did that, my familiar voicemail chime happened and every vm I deleted came back :(

This worked for me.

1. Press and hold #1 on your keypad

2. Delete all messages by pressing "7"

3. Go back into your voicemails and manually delete all voicemails

4. Then, go into "delete all messages" and clear history

This absolutely worked for me!

@deben

I had the voicemail not being deleted issue and your solution worked (Turn on flight mode, delete VM, turn off flight mode).

So simple and that after I reset network settings, reset the phone etc. etc. LOL

I had the same problem, and followed this method of deleting in aeroplane mode. Don't forget to delete the messages from the deleted folder as well or they may just re-appear after you exit aeroplane mode.

Thank you so much for the solution to this issue. I have had 5 voicemails that I couldn't delete (and yes, I was following the proper steps) until I followed your instructions.