All other major networks and some MVNO's have visual voicemail. For the iphone base, it's very easy as it's a one size fits all sort of thing. After being with Vodafone for 2 years, the idea of going back to a standard voicemail seems so so silly. Being able to label, listen and share voice messages is a must have!
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Sorry but it’s not really visual voicemail. It’s only on device when there is signal. Otherwise it’s old fashioned dial up voicemail
Not sure I understand. Looks like the Visual Voicemail I remember. If I put my phone into airplane mode I can still listen to Visual Voicemail messages.
Perhaps you can explain how it's not Visual Voicemail and what you think is missing. It's possible I've never used some of it's features, so don't know what I'm missing.
I've got a list of recorded messages and can play them back without any signal. I think that's all I wanted.
sixeyes It only works when your iPhone has signal, otherwise the caller gets sent to your usual voicemail. If you have signal and they leave a message it’s stored directly on your iPhone, of course it’s there regardless if you have signal or not afterwards because it’s all done on device.
Visual Voicemail is basically a server that stores your voicemail and sends it to you iPhone when you have signal. Three & Smarty don’t have the servers.
I’ve just come back to smarty and I’m getting visual voicemail
New2Smarty, RCS is supported in GBR with at least com.google.android.apps.messaging's messages.android_20250908_01_RC00.phone.openbeta_dynamic (289312100) update on my Fairphone 5.
For everyone else, see https://community.smarty.co.uk/t5/chats-hacks/visual-voicemail/m-p/67/highlight/true#M16 for the official response to this feature request.
