![]() Play your voicemail on your iPhone and then hit the record button on Audacity. Just play back your voicemail message and re-record it onto a different platform.įirst, plug a mini-plug audio cable into your iPhone’s earbud jack and then into the line input of your computer.ĭownload Audacity, which is a popular, free audio recording program. Yes, it’s an analog solution to the rescue! Plus you know how much I like downloading additional software that may or may not play nicely with other software on my computer.īring an Old Mini-Plug Cable and Count to Five!Īs the saying goes, “What’s old is new again.” Not that any of these choices cost crazy money, but it just feels wrong that you’ve got to pay what seems like ransom money to break your voicemail free. Though this is not an official review, I’d go with Decipher Voicemail, the least expensive one. That said, here are the dominant players in the space: Unfortunately, these software downloads are going to cost you some coin. You’re suddenly looking at your visual voicemail on your computer’s desktop. You just download their third party software, and BAM! Your target is the aforementioned copy of your voicemail, living deep inside your iPhoneĪND ALSO… backed up on your computer somewhere in iTunes.īut finding your messages and then identifying the right ones to save is universally viewed as a herculean task!įortunately, there are some clever entrepreneurs who’ve taken the time to figure out a solution for you. We’ll give them three rescue plans to work with… One way or another, now is still the best time to act! (An iTunes backup sync on the old iPhone should restore all existing content, but who knows what differences future operating systems might contain.) When you inevitable upgrade to a newer phone model in the next year or two, and you send your iPhone into early retirement, you might find yourself saying “Sayonara!” to your precious messages. If that threat doesn’t make you flinch, the simple passage of time will. I suppose you could be satisfied nurturing those voicemails locally on the phone, but if you lose or break your iPhone, your messages will go “POOF!” And there’s no key.Īgain, the iPhone IOS offers no obvious escape for these digital files. So your messages actually are in your possession.īut they’re buried really deep in your iPhone. Seemingly forever, because a copy gets stored locally. Once your iPhone receives your messages, they do hang on… “Aren’t these messages also living on my iPhone?” (Whoo Hoo!)Įither way, your messages only have a month to live. Today, your wireless provider stores your voicemail safely on their servers.įor example, Verizon Wireless will store 40 messages up to 3 minutes each for only 30 days.ĪT&T gives you the same deal, but each message is permitted to extend to up to four minutes. The lesson here is you had possession of the actual messages, however fragile the audio tapes were. It’s all ancient history by today’s sleek digital standards.īut I bet some of those messages are still alive on a couple of tapes forgotten inside a shoebox in the back of your closet. Towards the end of your answering machine’s life, the recorded voices you could make out spoke in wild, warbly pitches ranging from an operatic soprano to the devil’s deep base. Yes, the limits of that analog technology inevitably created mangled tapes with partially destroyed messages. In the good old days, your phone messages lived in your home answering machine on little mini audio cassettes. Part of the problem is where your voicemail messages actually reside. It just appears the tech titans didn’t feel this functionality was all that important. I think the unfortunate truth is you’re not really supposed to move your voicemails around. Like Pinocchio’s Pleasure Island, you’ve unknowingly paid a steep entry fee to access the flexibility of visual voicemail. Shockingly, there’s no Easy Button to press on the iPhone. It seems like such simple ‘drag and drop’ task. Sometimes a message comes along you’d like to download to your computer for safekeeping, right? No biggie.Īnd I doubt every voicemail you receive is a gem that’s needed for posterity.īut you probably don’t want to lose it all. So occasionally, you’ve got to delete some messages. How many of you have ever run out of voicemail space?Īll right, half of America, you can put your hands down now. Waiting to be played back in whatever order you want. Because you’re going to need it on your visual voicemail rescue mission!Īll your messages. It’s time to find it in the back of your tech closet. This mini-plug audio cable ruled your analog universe years ago. Do you recognize this cable? Of course you do. ![]()
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