How To Recover iPhone Visual Voicemails You Thought Were Lost Forever
Author: brianmcdrummer
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Check out my other video titled, How To Find iPhone Backup Folder On Windows XP And Copy To An External Hard Drive" I do not backup to iCloud, I backup to my computer. I'm not sure if this will work if you backup to iCloud. Here are the steps to recover your old voice mails as well as deleted voice mails: If you are not COMPLETELY confident in trying what was described in the video DO NOT!!! proceed. Instead, get someone to help you that understands the processes explained in the video. I will not be held liable in any way for any lost data that is not able to be recovered. Things you need are your old iPhone, (I'm not sure if it will work with an iPhone that your old SIM card will fit) your old SIM card, and your previous backup before upgrading your iPhone. If you do not have your OLD SIM card you may be able to use any SIM card that is NOT activated. However, I have not tried this and I'm not sure if it will work. If you try without a SIM card, iTunes will tell you that you must have a SIM in the iPhone in order to restore your iPhone. 1) Make sure you backup your device before starting this process. It will ensure that you're able to restore your new iPhone to the way it was before starting this process. 2) Erase all content on the iPhone by going to Settings, General, Reset, Erase All Content and Settings, Erase iPhone, it will ask if you're sure, touch Erase iPhone. (Again before you Erase All Content and Settings make sure you backup your iPhone so you'll be able to restore it to the way it was before starting this process. 3) Power your device off and take the new SIM card out and insert the old SIM card. 4) Open iTunes and plug your iPhone into your computer. 5) After iTunes recognizes your device, restore your iPhone from a previous backup. (I'm not sure if it will work if you restore from the backup you just created) 6) After the restore process is completed your old voice mails should be back on your device for you to copy over to another audio source like your computer which will allow you to listen to your old voice mails. You may need to download a program to your computer in order to copy the voice mails over to your computer. If you liked this video click the like button. Have A Great Day!!! :)
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I changed carriers and still have the old SIM card but when I put the old card in, there was no voicemails...does this only work if you have the same carrier?
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When her Dad passed, Diana Zegretti, searched for a way to ease the pain. She kept playing her Dad’s messages over and over again on her phone, messages he had left her while he was still alive. And she noticed that listening to his voice brought her peace.
Knowing the two leading phone manufacturers, Apple and Android, ask customers to delete voicemails to make room for more, panic began to strike. How could she save her father’s voicemails forever?
Zegretti was heartbroken but she set out to do something that would ease the pain for millions of people and in doing so, it just might ease hers.
She teamed up with her business partner Arles Carballo and quickly learned Androids’ and iPhone’s visual voicemails have the “share” and “forward” feature. Together, Zegretti and Carballo, developed the “Voicemail Saver” app, which allow users to move voicemails of their choice onto one place, the Voicemail Saver app.
“It is patent pending and the only one of its kind,” said Zegretti. “There is no other app out there that saves voicemails. Ours is the only one.”
“Can you imagine saving your children’s voicemails and playing them back for them 10 years later?” Zegretti said. “It’s priceless.”
And that does bring a bit of peace to Diana Zegretti.
The Voicemail Saver app is available for download on the Google Play store. Search Voicemailsaver.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL DIANA ZEGRETTI AT 305.505.1500 or email: VoiceMailSaver@gmail.com -
I have my phone and sim card.. I need to retrieve a voicemail. When I plug into my computer - I receive a trust message. I cannot select trust due to the shattered screen. Is there any way around this? Or, can it be done at a MAC store?
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I really need your help...
My father passed away two months ago. I had to get my Iphone 6 unlocked and I switched over from Rogers to Virgin Mobile (Canadian). I had visual voicemails on my 6 but with my new virgin plan i just have a traditional voicemail. I was lucky enough to save about ten voicemails from my Iphone to my Mac, however there are still so many other voicemails from him I would like to save.
I am now using my Iphone 6 with my virgin plan and the voicemails are gone. I still have the old SIM card. Please if you could give any advice...
I'm 21 and this is hard enough as it is, let alone not being able to hear those messages again is really crushing me right now.
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I need you helpppppp. Pleaseeeee help me!! So I have an iPhone 6 and it's an ATT one I had for over a year now and it just started giving me problems with the visual voicemail. All of a sudden it has a red circle on the phone squared application and when I touch the phone I go to voicemail and it says visual voicemail is currently unavailable? What should I do to get that annoying red notification gone?? And make the visual voicemail work properly again? Pleaseee help, I restarted my phone and it's still there I turned airplane mode it's still there I resettled my network setting, I took the sim out and put it back in I tried everything and still it's not gone and it's not working properly. I turned on my data and it does away but once I turn it off it comes back and also the visual voicemail still says its unavailable even if I turned on my data. What should I do?? Help pleaseee
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That's a screen shot lmfao
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Thank you! I had dropped my 6 plus last week and apple traded it in for the 6s plus. Thank God they gave me my SIM card, because my mom just passed away and all her voice mails were gone. I thought because I backed everything up, they would just be there. I cried so hard thinking I lost her voice forever. Can't wait to try this resolution. God bless.
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Hello Brian,happy new year! I came across your youtube channel and I believe you can help me resolve my issue. I have an old iphone 5 that no longer in service but I still have it because it HAD precious voicemails my grandmother that passed away left me. To make a long story short, I had an issue with my current iphone 6s a tmobile Representative told me I can put my current sim crd inside of my old iphone 5. Later on i realized all of my visual voicemails on my iphone 5 disappeared.I put the original sim card back in the iphone 5.The last time I backed up my iphone 5 was in july but I NEVER uploaded it to itunes online. Im not sure how to backup my iphone 5 on itunes. Brian, can you please help me figure out how to restore my backup so I can retrieve my old voicemails. I have not attempted to back up my phone since my voicemails deleted Im way too scared. Thank you in advance!all your help will be very appreciated .
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Hey,ran into your channel today! Happy New Year! I need to find a way to back up all my voicemails on my iphone 5s that are saved. I am going to upgrade and need a way to save them. Do you have a fix for that? hope you are well! Karl
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So, i just happened to backup my iPhone 5 a week after my dad passed away last April, and I hadn't backed it up since. I have a GoPhone plan with AT&T and for some reason when I changed plans, I lost Visual Voicemail, and when I changed my plan back, it never reappeared. I still have the same SIM Card in the phone, and I finally got them to fix it so that I could see Visual Voicemail again, but all of my Dad's voicemails are gone. I saw your video, so I clicked on Restore From Backup. No only did it not restore my voicemails, but it synced and backed up my phone, so I no longer have the old backup. Please help!
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Hi Brian,
I had an iphone 4 and was very reluctant to upgrade even though I needed to because I had voice mails from my dad who recently passed away. I went into the store and inquired about the voice mails and they assured me the voice mails would be on the new phone. I still waited and let my husband do his phone first just to make sure. My husband said everything came over. My husband is not technical at all so he never would have asked them to do anything or know what to do himself but they obviously backed up his phone for him because everything was on his new iphone 6. For me it was a disaster. I had the same gentleman in the store who helped my husband only when I came home and went to use my phone it was like a brand new phone. It was completely blank, absolutely nothing came over. I called my husband and I was hysterical to say the least. My husband called the store for me because I could not stop crying enough to talk to anyone. They told my husband how to back my phone up to Itunes and sync it with my new phone. The only thing that did not come over after I did that was the most important, my dad's priceless voice mails!!. The man in the AT&T store told me that my husband must have backed his phone up and I did not and suggested I call AT&T tech support. I spoke to so many people and they were no help at all. I finally spoke to someone who may have been onto something. She told me to reach out to the store so see if they had an old 4 Sim card that they could activate for me so I could get my voice mails. I can still see the visual voice mails on my phone but obviously have no service but I still have my sim card and my phone. It occurred to me that my husband has his sim card so I was wondering if I could get AT&T to activate his old sim card would I somehow be able to use it to put in my phone so I could get my messages??? My husband keeps asking me what I want for Christmas and I keep telling him just my father's voice mails so I can hear his voice again!! I found your video and feel very hopeful you may be able to guide me further. Thank you!!!! -
Hey Brian, do you know how do access a previous version of an iphone backup in itunes? After watching your video, I was hoping restore this backup to retrieve the old visual voicemail messages? My boyfriend had TMobile transfer his data to his new phone with their machine. Needless to say, it screwed everything up and in particular, lost all of his visual voicemails from the old phone (I assume because they put a new SIM card in it for me) and they did not transfer any to his new phone. As we still have his SIM and the old phone, I was hoping to restore to an old version of backup (the most recent backup was completed after the transfer which excluded the visual voicemail messages). Itunes does not give an option to select which backup you would like to restore. Thanks :)
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Dear, Brian someone I know accidentally deleted a voice message they have an iPhone 4, they don't have visual voicemail or anything like that when they go to voicemail it just shows the regular call screen. they do have the same sim card, but they don't have any backups that they can go to, I'm not experienced with any of this kind of stuff that's why I decided to drop a comment hoping you would respond, i don't real leave comments but you seem like the right guy to talk to about this kind of stuff,help will be appropriated.
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Hi Brian, Is there any way to retrieve voicemails if you don't have the SIM card? I lost my iphone 4 on vacation last week and when I remotely call my voicemail, it only has very recent messages, not ones that I saved long term. I am getting a new device but was wondering if there's any way they would show up? same situation as a couple of other folks on the thread, had some voicemails saved from my dad who passed away. Thanks for any information you can provide.
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Hi Brian - just had the same issue as your video with my iPhone 4 last Friday when a well-intended Best Buy employee accidentally started to upgrade my number (instead of my wife's number on our account), then caught the error but had to put in a new SIMM card. I did not realize there was an issue with my voicemail until this afternoon. You will be pleased to know that the AT&T service person I spoke with texted me a link to your video! The two different Best Buy people gave me completely different answers - does not matter, I got connected to you. Also watched your video on copying the back-up file, etc. - both very helpful.
My question is this - why can I not just synch my phone (with the new SIMM card) to the old synch (i.e. restore to a previous back-up) and get the old voice messages back that way without having to switch the SIMM card? Has anyone tried this? I will not risk losing the messages myself by trying it without first copying the back up files (we have three - my wife's iPhone, my iPhone and an iPad), but am trying to save the time it takes to do that work.
Related - is there anyone who knows how to use the back-up file(s) and play the voice messages directly from the back-up file on the PC? The voice messages are not sentimental, not needing to save them for posterity - just need to retrieve the messages contents which I had failed to record in a hard copy format. I also do not want to lose any text messages while switching SIMM cards back and forth, etc.
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I am heartbroken. I just realized I lost a voicemail form my Dad who passes way in September. When I upgraded my iPhone5S to a 6 for one of my phone number. I put my second number on the iPhone5S. I had to go to the AT&T store for a new sim card and did not realize I had lost the voicemail until after the sim card was replaced. Had I known, I would have kept the old sim card. I think the store clerk must have thrown it away. Why are the store clerks not giving the sim cards back to the customers? And also, why can’t I retrieve the old voicemail from my iCloud backup?
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Thanks for this video! I haven't tried the steps yet, but its giving me hope that I can recover my 2 years worth of lost voice mails
I had almost the same situation as you, when keeping(returning to) my same Iphone-5, they had to put in a new sim card.
and then only last 30 days of voice mails were restored. I don't know why AT&T & Apple; both point the blame on each other. but here is what I think is happening. . .
Yes true, AT&T only stores the last 30 days in their servers, but I think the voice mails are stored in your Iphone (not on the SIM card)
they appear (to me) to be no different than voice-memo recordings. which stay on your iPhone until you delete them.
But I don't know why Apple has to program it, that if you put in a different SIM card, then all your voice mails get deleted! (that are older than 30 days, that are no longer on AT&T servers)
Why can't these older voice mails remain untouched?, (like all of your voice-memo recordings, music. bookmarks etc)
I haven't tried your steps yet, but I am very apprehensive about your first step of: start with ERASING everything from your phone!
Yes, I did a full backup of my Iphone to iTunes a week ago, but I've only done a restore from back only once, when this iPhone-5 was new, & I loaded it with all the stuff from my old iPhone 3G. (8 gig)
But now I have 16 gigs (fully filled) with info from the past 2 years (plus almost 4 years previous of initial files transferred from my iPhone 3G initially)
But I'm apprehensive of the possibility of the benefits of retrieving the 2 years worth of my lost voice mails, is far outweighed by the tragedy of losing any of the 95% of my other iPhone contents (that did not get affected by the SIMM card change)
Can the restore from back be done without doing the first step of "ERASING everything from your phone"?
And/or, Is there a way to just restore voice-mails ONLY from your iTunes backup?
Or I saw on another web site, about being able to retrieve voice mails from the iTunes backup using your computer with Dr.Fone for iOS (Windows) software. Do you know anything about this? -
Ok I have a somewhat complicated situation & I hope to God you can help!! The computer I synced my iPhone to, the motherboard fried. I took it to a repair place & they took everything off of my hard drive & put it on its own small portable hard drive thing. So everything that was on my computer before it fried, is now on the copy they gave me. I had an iPhone 4 at the time then upgraded to an iPhone 5. Since they also gave me a new SIM card, I looked & all of my voicemails were gone since that SIM card no longer has service to it (in the iPhone 4). Now this wouldn't have bothered me but my dad had passed away & I had probably 30 something voicemails from him! Can you please please help? I recently got a new computer & I have the hard drive from my old computer connected to my new one & my iPhone 4. But now I'm lost! Thank you so much if you don't mind helping!!
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Hi! I'm typing this message in tears... I bought the iPhone 6 plus the day after Christmas & just noticed today that my massages were GONE! My uncle passed away in May and I must have had a good 30 messages from him. Same thing happened w atnt & apple I got the run around! I have my old 5 but I reset it to give it to my niece. Do you think resetting it deleted the messages? My uncles messages r more important to me than this stupid phone! Plz help me if u can. I appreciate it.
Danielle </3
Am I just remembering it wrong? Do all iPhones have a SIM card 'slot'? Also, do you think there's any theoretical way to retrieve voicemails from a device that you no longer have?
And one more possibly unanswerable question... IF I had given my phone away and someone else wiped it and used it, is there any chance in hell to retrieve those voicemails? It's really confusing to think that voicemails would be stored on the SIM cards of all things, surely an actual 'professional' from my cell provider could help restore years-old voice mails?
Purely asking for hope here haha. Regardless, thanks for the vid!