How do I turn off voicemail transcription?

After all that's gone on with government snooping and companies pilfering through our private conversations for advertising, I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with this feature. Especially since it's forced on us, "free" and with no option to opt out. I've seen too many "gifts" that wound up carrying a hidden price tag I didn't want.

There is a trick to stop it. It only translates two languages. To disable it, change the Siri language to Australian English, Indian English or some other language it doesn't translate. It will come back with "Translation Unavailable".

SSJDancer wrote:

The transcriptions are a JOKE as far as accuracy..

Funny you should say that, because mine have been very accurate. I've only witnessed minor errors where words it could not understand were left out. I've even seen it add the uh, um, and all those pauses we put into conversation, and then when listening to the actual voicemail, I find the missing words were things the caller mumbled through. In my work, I find I like to read over the transcription and can prioritize what I wish to listen to later on.

If you wish to have a say in what you think, then share that with Apple on their feedback page here, http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html Apple does not participate here on the forum, the feedback site is where they get to see comments about products.

I hope they fix it SOON!! To have something so annoying and ineffectual just randomly start appearing and NOT be able to turn it off is ridiculous, to say the least! The transcriptions are a JOKE as far as accuracy... It's like playing "Telephone" as a child, when you sit in a circle and pass a whispered message around... The outcome is LAUGHABLE!! APPLE laid a big turd on this one.

Change the Siri language to Australian English, Indian English or some other language it doesn't translate.

If the messages aren't sent to Apple, why do the phones have to be hooked to wifi for messages to be translated? This is likely going to wind up being a privacy invasion.

Translation does not require a wifi connection at all. I've had calls when nowhere near a wifi node, and let them go to voicemail and had the translation available within 5-10 minutes, no wifi involved at all.

If your carrier supports wifi calling, it may also push your voicemail to your device over wifi when connected, to reduce data on their own network. AT&T wifi calling does this - voicemail will be sent over wifi if your phone is connected to a network (as will SMS texts, for those carriers that support it with wifi calling enabled).

You cannot. There currently is no way to turn it off, the process is in a beta test mode. The closest you could get to turning it off would be for you to have your cellular carrier disable Visual Voicemail, and revert your account back to the normal voicemail which then requires you to call in to your voicemail service. You would no longer see your voicemail in a list as you do now.

If you would like to see Apple provide a method to turn this off, then you need to provide feedback to them here, http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

At present, there is no way to disable that feature.

You're welcome.

There is no way to, but we are in the beta version and we will try to fix this in our next update. Thanks!

The only way to possibly turn it off is thru your carrier. if you have visual voicemail enabled it is an automatic beta test that started with iOS 10 on the iPhone 6s and up. You have to contact your carrier and have them disable visual voicemail on your account.

I just got the IPhone 7+ last night and did the new update and it's still there with no way to turn it off. I didn't have this on my old iPhone and really don't like it.

Am I missing something as I am new to this phone? Is there a way to turn off the transcripts in voicemail now?

No, as mentioned previously, there is currently no way to disable translation.