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Anyone in UK got Live Voicemail working?
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Dave.Inwood1988
macrumors 6502
I’m also on O2 live voicemail switched on but just getting the standard voicemail/visual voicemail once call is over
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StumpyBloke
macrumors 603
It's US only at the moment IIRC. Whether we will get it in the UK is anyone's guess. Don't forget, we never got the transcribe function from voicemail which the States have had for years and years and years.
tomtad
macrumors 68040
Given it’s the same as me dictating into the phone I can’t see what the hold up here would be. It’s not like the mobile provider is having to do anything
StumpyBloke
macrumors 603
Because Apple I guess. Why do we never get the previous voicemail transcribing system? Because Apple.
God knows why they are segregating such features when the language is identical.
I guess from a technology standpoint it’s quite different. A regular voicemail and visual voicemail is recorded by the network and then relayed to your phone after the call. This would require the voice to be routed directly to your phone. That said, if you press a button to go to voicemail then there’s no reason the phone can’t “answer the call” and take the message directly and then allowing voice to text live.
palemonkey
macrumors 6502a
If you set your phones region to United States & reboot you’ll get live voicemail. I’ve had my phone like this since the beta and haven’t noticed any issues so far, you can set your metric and date preferences to UK etc
StumpyBloke
macrumors 603
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palemonkey
macrumors 6502a
You can set your keyboard language to English UK, the only difference I’ve really noticed is that some of the items in settings are American for example “Cellular” menu instead of “Mobile data”
If you set Siri to Language English (US) you get voicemail transcriptions too, you can set the voice to British so again no real difference as far as I can tell.
It's not Apple it's the providers still working with very old versions of voicemail.
If this works on phone - I’ll be happy. I’m on Three who never added Visual voicemail, and this sounds like it bypasses networks?
mazz0
macrumors 68040
I’ve done this and still no live voicemail for me. Do you have the transcribe option too?
The App Store region matches the region of the Apple ID that's currently signed in, not the region of the phone itself.
palemonkey
macrumors 6502a
Yeah voicemail transcribe now working too. Try setting Siri to English US too
My settings are attached.
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Even in Canada (which I'm pretty sure is supposed to have it) I couldn't get Live Voicemail to work without switching to US even though the toggle is there.
Very interesting the way it completely bypasses the need for Visual Voicemail which carriers try to charge for. Much nicer than having to call in to the regular voicemail. Still a few bugs to work out though.
Very interesting the way it completely bypasses the need for Visual Voicemail which carriers try to charge for. Much nicer than having to call in to the regular voicemail. Still a few bugs to work out though.
MegaBlue
macrumors 6502
Live Voicemail is completely independent from any carrier voicemail system. It’s on Apple.
Pearsey
macrumors 603
lol, no it's not. That would be very scary, Apple just accessing your voicemail without any compliance from your carrier. That would be highly illegal.
It‘s independent in the form, that your phone actually takes the call and transcribes the incoming voice in realtime. It doesn‘t involve any carrier voicemail (it potentially pushes the recorded voice message to carrier servers afterwards though, not sure).
MegaBlue
macrumors 6502
Yes, it is.
Apple is not accessing your voicemail in any way. If you choose to use Live Voicemail, everything is handled on device.
When you use Live Voicemail, the caller hears your chosen Siri voice tell them to state why they’re calling and that the other person might pick up, then Siri records and transcribes the caller, and if you don’t pick up, it’s saved to the device itself. If you choose to reject the call entirely, bypassing Live Voicemail, then it goes to your carrier’s voicemail system.
The two do not sync; Live Voicemails are not available on your carrier’s system, and carrier voicemails are not part of the Live Voicemail system.