Do you know that you can still check your messages when your phone is not available? Yea that’s very true. If you don’t have your phone handy, you are not out of battery or die, you can still listen to your important messages. As such, it is very important that you know how to access voicemail. This will help you listen to messages from another mobile phone or even a landline phone.
Most cellular carriers offer this “call my voicemail” service. This enables subscribers to call directly into their voicemail box using a different phone. It doesn’t even matter if you are calling from another iPhone, mobile phone, or landline, the same rules apply.
So how do you call your iPhone voicemail? The good news is that it is very easy to call your iPhone voicemail.
How to Call AT&T Voice Mail
If you want to call AT&T voice mail:
- Use a touch-tone phone. This is any phone that has push buttons, to call your 10-digit cell phone number.
- If you have your iPhone with you, do not answer the call.
- When you hear your personalized or automated greeting, press the Star Key to interrupt it.
- If you are prompted, key in your passcode.
- If you have not set up a passcode or you have forgotten it, try entering your seven-digit cell phone number without the area code. This is the default passcode.
- When you are connected, press 1 to listen to your messages or 2 to send a message.
How to Access Verizon Voice Mail
To call Verizon voice mail:
- Call your 10-digit cell phone number using a touch-tone phone, but do not answer the call.
- When you hear your personalized or automated greeting, press # to interrupt it.
- Key in your passcode and press # again.
- After you have listened to your messages, press 7 to delete your message or 9 to save it.
Retrieving Sprint Voice Mail
Retrieving a Sprint voice mail is quite easy. Here’s how it is done:
- Using a touch-tone phone, call your 10-digit cell phone number, but do not answer the call.
- When you hear your personalized or automated greeting, press the Star Key to interrupt it.
- Provide your passcode.
- Press 7 to delete your message or 9 to save it.
- If you want to recover a deleted voice mail message during the voice mail session in which you deleted it, press the Star Key and then 3.
How to Call Voice Mail Online
You can still call voicemail online if you do not have access to a landline or a friend’s cell phone. You can use a computer in checking your messages.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) transmits sound as data over the Internet. Skype and Google are popular VoIP services. So if you have Skype credits, you can call your voice mail for under 3 cents per minute. You can also use Google Voice or Hangouts in calling your voice mail free of charge.