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Halsin0891 t1_j5pvk5h wrote

Will add to this: Backup your voicemails to a secondary or even tertiary location. Voicemails on mobile devices are saved by default to cloud storage. When my wife & I changed carriers from Verizon to Cricket we hadn't saved her voicemails, and Verizon deleted those voicemails immediately after we changed providers, so my wife lost her voicemails, including ones from several close relatives who had passed.

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WindowMoon OP t1_j5pvqle wrote

what did you use to back them up? i’d like to do this! i don’t have extra income to pay some monthly service, tho.

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Halsin0891 t1_j5pwi9h wrote

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-permanently-save-voicemails-in-ios-and-android/

This website has the steps to move voicemails to local storage on your phone, whether it's iOS or Android. Once you've done that you can just back them up to a thumb drive using a computer & a USB cable!

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WindowMoon OP t1_j5pwoic wrote

THANK YOU!! wish i could pin this for others, because others have expressed their sadness after losing voicemails of loved ones.

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Halsin0891 t1_j5px87y wrote

No problem! Also, if you need a program to play the audio file on the computer, I typically recommend VLC media player. It's open source/free, and works with a ton of different audio/video files

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jaweebamonkey t1_j5rwwbx wrote

Just want to add that if I’m not mistaken, iOS saves them via iCloud as long as they have been backed up via normal backup. My only source is me at the moment

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Halsin0891 t1_j5ryh2i wrote

I could definitely see that being the case but I haven't owned an iOS device in nearly a decade so I couldn't confirm or deny it

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jrhawk42 t1_j5q9e2z wrote

You can also run an audio cable to your PC and use voice recording software to save a file to your PC and cloud accounts.

I believe you can do the same w/ a bluetooth connection, but I haven't personally tried that method.

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Dublinkxo t1_j5qdkvv wrote

you could literally use a different phone or laptop to record the sound and save it that way. I once lost a super important voicemail and I wished to God I had just recorded it onto my laptop at the time. Gone. Spent an hour on the phone with [cell carrier] for them to tell me it was gone forever. Days of crying. Days.

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WindowMoon OP t1_j5qei3z wrote

oh i’m so sorry, that is so shitty 😢 thankfully another user posted a source to save them on USB or your computer. uhg that breaks my heart for you 😞

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jessiebeex t1_j5rz8th wrote

You can also save them to your phone as sound files and email them to yourself. I did this with ones from my grandpa.

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SmarterTogether t1_j6bbulb wrote

I've heard you can actually email voicemails to yourself ...still I'd backup, but my might be a good secondary move.

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