That may be true if you're using your carrier's voicemail settings, but if you use visual voicemail, they're stored on your iPhone. I can't remember how you set up visual voicemail, unfortunately, but Google should help you out.
Thanks, Ari > On Oct 29, 2016, at 8:49 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was under the impression voice mails are on your carrier’s servers, after > all, I can call my iPhone, when my voice mail comes on I think I can press > the star key and access my voice mail so it must be on their servers. You > might want to give them a call. > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Paul Ferrara > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2016 12:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: are my voicemails gone forever now that I upgraded > > Ari, good questions. I always do an encripted backup to iTunes, no idea where > voicemails would be stored in it. > I checked in iCloud settings; mail is off. I tried to turn it on, and it > asked about creating a free iCloud email account which I don’t need. So this > setting means nothing apparently. > Where do you turn on visual voicemail? > I should know but cannot find it. I believe it’s on, but I’m not seeing it in > settings anywhere. > > Thanks. > > Paul > > From: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2016 1:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: are my voicemails gone forever now that I upgraded > > That's strange. I've never had voicemail disappear on me, nor emails. I do > make certain to do an encrypted backup in iTunes before updating to any iOS > version, however. I would recommend doing so. Also, do you have visual > voicemail enabled, or are you using your carrier's voicemail option? I don't > think using your carrier's voicemail option would make any difference, but > ever since I got my first iPhone, I've always used the visual voicemail > option, and it's worked well for me. > > > Thanks, > Ari > > On Oct 28, 2016, at 3:29 PM, Paul Ferrara <[email protected]> wrote: > > All, I seem to remember the last time I upgraded phones 18 months ago that > email and voicemail was deleted, never to be found again. > In the last 18 months, I had two voicemails I saved and wanted to keep > forever; however, I forgot about my old ones disappearing. I couldn’t care > less about the email; the voice mail—totally different thing. Is there > anything at all I can do to retrieve them, or are they, as I suspect, > permanently gone. > > Thanks. > > Paul > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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