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:
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.)
Everything else about Visual Voicemail is straightforward. The buttons do
exactly what they say:
Delete. The Voicemail list scrolls with a flick of your finger, but you still
might want to keep the list manageable by deleting old messages. To
do that, tap a message and then tap Delete. The message disappears
instantly. (You’re not asked to confirm.)
The iPhone hangs on to old messages for 30 days—even ones you’ve deleted. To listen to deleted messages that are still on the phone, scroll to the bottom of the list and tap Deleted Messages. on the Deleted screen, you can undelete a message that you actually don’t want to lose yet (that is, move it back to the voicemail screen), or tap Clear all to erase these messages for good.
Call Back. Tap a message and then tap Call Back to return the call. Very
cool—you never even encounter the person’s phone number.
Rewind, Fast Forward. Drag the little white ball in the scroll bar
(beneath the list) to skip backward or forward in the message. It’s a great
way to replay something you didn’t catch the first time.
Greeting. Tap this button (upper-left corner) to record your voicemail
greeting.
Call Details. Tap the O button to open the Info screen for the message
that was left for you. Here you’ll find out the date and time of the
message.
