Save or Forward Voicemail as MP3 Files on iPhones
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 8/14/2015 1:00:00 AM
Isn't it strange that there isn't a way to save or forward voicemail on the iPhone?
The iPhone changed the way people use voicemail. It was the first phone to have "Visual Voicemail", giving you the ability to see a list of messages, rather than having to navigate through a series of voice prompts to play back and manage your messages.
Apple made this possible by downloading messages directly to the iPhone, rather than forcing you to call a number to hear them. This not only made it easier to select and play message, but even play them back without relying on over-the-air reception.
Since the iPhone already downloads messages for Visual Voicemail, saving it as an MP3 should be easy for them to implement.
Although you can save a message indefinitely on the iPhone itself, you can't forward it or save it on your computer, or in a cloud service like Dropbox or iCloud.
The ability to forward voicemail on office telephone systems has been around for years, so I was surprised when they didn't have a feature to do it on the original iPhone... 8 years later, you still can't forward voicemail.
Even if they didn't add a forwarding option, simply giving us an option to email the voicemail as an MP3 file, we could at least send the file to yourself or somebody else, preserving the message indefinitely.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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