I want my traditional VZW voicemail back--can I disable visual voicemail on i5?

[whippetcat]

I miss the VZW voicemail. The visual voicemail on the iPhone offers you two options, change your password or change your greeting. With good ole' VZW voicemail, I could forward a message, forward a message with comments, I could fast forward by hitting 3, rewind by hitting 1, and I could respond to voicemail message without calling someone back by hitting 8. Can I somehow get that back on my iPhone 5? Any workarounds I can do?

 

[TurboTiger]

Holy Crap!
I didn't know you could do all of that with voice mail.
Good Luck

 

[Peligro911]

Dial *86

 

[whippetcat]

Dial *86

*86 drops me into visual voicemail box. Someone's gotta have a solution to this. Help!

 

[michikade#AC]

Does calling yourself work?


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[Peligro911]

I guess your looking for the prem voicemail Verizon offered cuz *86 is reg voicemail .. Do those commands work on that ? ... Maybe call Verizon and see if they need to upgrade your voicemail feature to prem

 

[mab4285]

Use google voice or youmail for your voicemail instead.

 

[whippetcat]

I guess your looking for the prem voicemail Verizon offered cuz *86 is reg voicemail .. Do those commands work on that ? ... Maybe call Verizon and see if they need to upgrade your voicemail feature to prem

*86 brings me to a voicemail menu but much more limited than what I had before I had an iPhone. I can't be the only person that notices this, can I? Is anyone using an iPhone missing the ability to forward a voicemail, or respond to a voicemail without actually calling someone back?

 

[atlawson]

If you turn cellular data off you can use your regular voice mail, but it doesn't have all the options I had on my bb voice mail.

 

[robertk328]

I miss the VZW voicemail. The visual voicemail on the iPhone offers you two options, change your password or change your greeting. With good ole' VZW voicemail, I could forward a message, forward a message with comments, I could fast forward by hitting 3, rewind by hitting 1, and I could respond to voicemail message without calling someone back by hitting 8. Can I somehow get that back on my iPhone 5? Any workarounds I can do?

You can forward and rewind with the slider but not sure the other stuff.

 

[whippetcat]

You can forward and rewind with the slider but not sure the other stuff.

I don't mean fast forward--I mean I need the ability to forward a voicemail message to another phone number. I will check out Google Voice, but if anyone know a solution that doesn't involve a third-party voicemail, please let me know.