Anyone in UK got Live Voicemail working?

[CavemanUK]

I’m in UK and on O2 contract. Live voicemail is turned on in settings but if someone rings me there’s no option to push them to voicemail and I don’t see anything on Lock Screen.

Likely a bug but I’m curious if anyone has gotten it working?

 

[Paddle1]

Is visual voicemail enabled?

 

[Dave.Inwood1988]

I’m also on O2 live voicemail switched on but just getting the standard voicemail/visual voicemail once call is over

 

[uncleiven]

Is this only going to work with O2 (Visual Voicemail)?

 

[StumpyBloke]

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]

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.

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]

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

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.

 

[CavemanUK]

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.

 

[Rousey]

I've had no luck with the voicemail nor have I managed to get voice messages transcribed within iMessage is that a us only thing too?

 

[palemonkey]

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]

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

I *think* the downside to this is it uses the US dictionary/spelling?

 

[Gudi]

Likely a bug but I’m curious if anyone has gotten it working?

This feature is only available in the US and Canada as of now. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

 

[palemonkey]

I *think* the downside to this is it uses the US dictionary/spelling?

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.

 

[dz5b609]

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.

It's not Apple it's the providers still working with very old versions of voicemail.

 

[revs]

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?

 

[Manda]

Does this make the Apple Store USA too for apps?

 

[mazz0]

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

I’ve done this and still no live voicemail for me. Do you have the transcribe option too?

 

[Paddle1]

Does this make the Apple Store USA too for apps?

The App Store region matches the region of the Apple ID that's currently signed in, not the region of the phone itself.

 

[palemonkey]

I’ve done this and still no live voicemail for me. Do you have the transcribe option too?

Yeah voicemail transcribe now working too. Try setting Siri to English US too

My settings are attached.

 

[Paddle1]

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.

 

[MegaBlue]

It's not Apple it's the providers still working with very old versions of voicemail.

Live Voicemail is completely independent from any carrier voicemail system. It’s on Apple.

 

[Pearsey]

I *think* the downside to this is it uses the US dictionary/spelling?

Toe-may-too or Tom-arrr-too

 

[dz5b609]

Live Voicemail is completely independent from any carrier voicemail system. It’s on Apple.

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.

 

[TimFL1]

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]

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.

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.