Verizon Visual Voicemail on Pixel XL

[therealasd]

Basic Visual Voicemail is free from Verizon. Upgrading to Premium gives you text transcriptions of your messages and I think you might get more storage. With the Pixel, as already stated, voicemail is the fourth tab in the Dialer app, so no need for a separate app.

 

[SteveISU]

Does the stock transcribe?

 

[therealasd]

If you're asking if the Dialer app displays the text transcription if you pay for premium, the answer is yes. When you tap the message in the list, the text is displayed along with playback controls.

 

[SteveISU]

If you're asking if the Dialer app displays the text transcription if you pay for premium, the answer is yes. When you tap the message in the list, the text is displayed along with playback controls.

No, for instance I'm on AT&T and get transcribed VM on my iPhone standard. I don't pay anything extra.

 

[therealasd]

iPhone is a special case, I believe. I dont think standard VM rules apply there. There are free VM alternatives for that for Android or the pay options like YouMail Premium or Verizon VVM.

 

[hal1]

Not sure why more people aren't mentioning Google Voice with it's built-in visual voice mail. Maybe I'm missing something (wouldn't be the first time) or maybe there's limitations that I don't realize.

You get your Google Voice phone number which you don't have to use, but you can still direct your regular phone number to use the Google Voice Voice Mail. You get true visual including an actual transcription of the message so you don't even have to listen to the message if you don't want.

 

[Brandwin]

Not sure why more people aren't mentioning Google Voice with it's built-in visual voice mail. Maybe I'm missing something (wouldn't be the first time) or maybe there's limitations that I don't realize.

You get your Google Voice phone number which you don't have to use, but you can still direct your regular phone number to use the Google Voice Voice Mail. You get true visual including an actual transcription of the message so you don't even have to listen to the message if you don't want.

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How does this work? I'm interested


I went to my dialer and don't see option for visual voicemail. I just use the AT&T one.

 

[hal1]

Not sure I remember how exactly. But do a search to find Google Voice.

I don't use my Google Voice phone number. But what it is is a second phone number, that if you give it to people, it can direct all calls to either your home, work, office, sell, or any other number you want to direct it to. That way, somebody doesn't have to try to reach you at several different places, but rather any phone you program into it will ring. Again, I don't use that phone number, but it has a great voice mail feature that allows you to use your own phone number and use Google Voice voicemail


https://support.google.com/voice/answer/115061?hl=en

 

[therealasd]

It works like YouMail thru call forwarding. Once a calls reaches voicemail, it forwards out to your Google voice number which then handles the VM. You access it either thru the GV app or Hangouts.

 

[hal1]

Once a calls reaches voicemail, it forwards out to your Google voice number which then handles the VA.

Thanks for summarizing it much better than I was able to. Great short explanation.

 

[anon(9227267)]

Is there any voice mail volume setting - I can just about hear them.

 

[skinnytoo2]

Is there any voice mail volume setting - I can just about hear them.

Are you hitting the speaker button. It's much louder when played through the speaker as opposed the hand set.

 

[anon(9227267)]

Are you hitting the speaker button. It's much louder when played through the speaker as opposed the hand set.

I haven't tried that - good thought - thanks.

 

[tgrsnpr]

How did you get your basic visual voicemail to work on the phone app? Mines keep saying disabled but when I go into the settings the visual voicemail is enabled.

 

[therealasd]

Only thing I can suggest is make sure the VM service selected is Your Carrier. Mine simply worked when I activated it. Seems really strange to me that so many people are having difficulties with it. Must have something to do with Verizon services somehow not communicting with the handset, maybe??

 

[Jde2466]

Has anyone noticed that the Voicemail tab in the dialer is gone now?

 

[rslifkin]

Has anyone noticed that the Voicemail tab in the dialer is gone now?

Just checked, still there for me (GS Pixel on VZW).

 

[Jde2466]

I just got it working. Somehow it was turned off in the settings on the dialer. Thanks!

 

[therealasd]

Has anyone noticed that the Voicemail tab in the dialer is gone now?

Go into your Dialer settings, under Voicemail, make sure Visual Voicemail is turned on. If you have the service, it should work.

 

[Lilybell2]

Funny, but I never gave a thought to setting up Visual Voicemail. Project Fi is our carrier and Visual Voicemail was just there from day one, no looking for it, no setting it up, it was just there. Very useful feature I might add.