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this option. It’s a prerecorded, somewhat uptight female voice that says,
“Your call has been forward to an automatic voice message system. 212-
661-7837 is not available.” Beep!
Custom. This option lets you record your own voice saying, for example,
“You’ve reached my iPhone. You may begin drooling at the tone.” Tap
Record, hold the iPhone to your head, say your line, and then tap Stop.
Check how it sounds by tapping Play.
Then just wait for your fans to start leaving you messages!
Using Visual Voicemail
In the voicemail list, a blue dot ∆ indicates a message that you haven’t yet
played.
You can work through your messages even when you’re out of AT&T cellular
range—on a plane, for example—because the recordings are stored on the iPhone
itself.
There are only two tricky things to learn about Visual Voicemail:
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Tap a message’s name twice, not once, to play it. That’s a deviation
from the usual iPhone Way, where just one tap does the trick. In Visual
Voicemail, tapping a message just selects it and activates the Call Back
and Delete buttons at the bottom of the screen. You have to tap twice to
start playback.
Turn on Speaker Phone first. As the name Visual Voicemail suggests,
you’re looking at your voicemail list—which means you’re not holding
the phone up to your head. The first time people try using Visual
Voicemail, therefore, they generally hear nothing!
That’s a good argument for hitting the Speaker button before tapping
messages that you want to play back. That way, you can hear the playback
and continue looking over the list. (Of course, if privacy is an issue,
you can also double-tap a message and then quickly whip the phone up
to your ear.)
If you’re listening through the earbuds or a Bluetooth earpiece or car kit, of course,
you hear the message playing back through that. If you really want to listen
through the iPhone’s speaker instead, tap Audio, then Speaker Phone. (You switch
back the same way.)
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