Blank Red Dot Won't go away iPhone 5

I turned off cellular data, wifi and bluetooth then left myself a msg, got the red dot, listened to the msg and the red dot went away ok so I don't think any data access is needed for this feature to work. BTW my phone is with Bell iin Canada.

We're talking about an operating system and app that takes over 2 GB, and is many millions of lines of code. There are probably thousands of bugs in it. It is impossible to get all bugs out of any software, even simple apps, let alone operating systems. I have a 3 line C program that I wrote 20 years ago that has 4 known bugs in it, none considered important enough to fix because there are workarounds for them. It's also impossible to test every feature of a release, even with over a million beta testers.

So if you have a workaround be content.

Voicemail could already be enabled by your carrier. What do you get if you tap on voicemail icon in the phone app?

Usually there is a list of all calls that went to voicemail. Swipe from right to left to get the option to delete the listed call.

You do have voicemail, you simply had not setup access to it on the device.

FYI, (this may help others) I've found that the red dot will show up and stay there if you don't have your cellular data turned on; If you turn off data to save your usage, turn it on & you should find the red dot will go away... & you will be most likely have a voice message. Visual Voice Mail needs celular data to be turned on (Visual Voice Mail is simply your voice mail on an iPhone where you see a list of messages you've received, doesn't require you to call a # to retrieve from a voice mail box).

Hazzah! I just figured this one out! Apparently you need someone to leave you another voicemail. Go in and delete it and that stupid red dot, that has been plaguing me for two weeks, goes away!

Tried that on my iPhone 4 - red dot does not go away.

Call yourself

leave a voicemail

delete it

Hey presto it worked for me nothing else did

The OP who posted this almost a year ago resolved it in less than a day. It's a good idea to read a thread (especially one that's a 10 months old) before responding to the first message in the thread.

thanks! It worked for me!

Thanks

This was the only thing that helped me. I tried everything else. Calling my voicemail. No messages, two red dots stayed on. I turned my data on and off. Still red dots. I turned the notification off, the dots went away. But when i turned notifications back on, they came back, two red dots. Finally I called my phone and left a message. Then i had only one red dot showing. When i checked and deleted that message, that red dot went away. Thanks!

Thank you, Kevin, You saved me bookoodles of time and hassle. It's nice to have these forums so those who sweat it out the first time get to pass along their experience and give us (me) help. No matter how simple it was in the solution, I don't know that on the front side and I appreciate you doing this for us!!

Thank you - it worked!!