Set Up Voice Mail on an iPhone
The iPhone smartphone serves millions on the go handheld computing, made possible by Apple, who introduced the device to wild success in 2007. It fetches email, surfs the web, plays music, records video and it also makes phone calls through exclusive wireless carrier AT&T. Missed calls go to voicemail, which a user must set up after she purchases the device, registers it for use with AT&T, and turns it on for the first time.
Instructions
1. Press the black button on the bottom of the iPhone to go to the Home screen. Tap the "Phone" button on the bottom left corner of the Home screen. It's green with a telephone icon. This will bring up the Phone screen.
2. Tap the "Voicemail" button in the bottom right corner of the Phone screen. This will bring up the Voicemail screen.
3. Set up voicemail and create a password the first time you use Voicemail when the iPhone prompts you.
4. Type in a password and hit "Save."
5. Tap "Record" and say a greeting. Tap "Stop" when you finish and listen to your greeting by tapping "Play."
6. Tap "Save" if you are satisfied with your recorded greeting. Re-record a greeting at any time by tapping "Voicemail," then tapping "Greeting," then tapping "Custom" and tapping "Record."
7. Set up the iPhone to play a default voice greeting instead of a personal one by tapping "Voicemail," "Greeting" and "Default."
8. Check your voicemail from the Voicemail screen where Unheard messages will have a blue dot next to them. Tap the message to make the message download to the iPhone and play. Tap the "Pause" button to pause the message and the "Play" button to continue playing it back.
9. Skip forward and backward on the message on the playback bar.
10. Check your voicemail from another phone by by calling your number and as your greeting plays entering * and your voicemail password followed by #, and follow the voicemail instructions.
11. Return a call from voicemail by tapping the message and tapping "Call Back."
12. Set an alert sound when you receive voicemail by going to the Home screen, and tapping "Settings," "Sounds" and turning on "New Voicemail."
13. Delete a message by tapping the message then tapping the "Delete" button.
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