Visual Voicemail (iPhone)
Visual Voicemail is similar to an email inbox and displays messages for easy access. Learn what Visual Voicemail is and how much it costs.
Things to Know
- Your Visual Voicemail won’t work if you have blocked the data transmission on your account.
- The forwarding delay (ringing time) before Voice Messaging answers is between 20 and 25 seconds. It cannot be changed.
- When voice messages are deposited in your mailbox, no charges apply.
How to use Visual Voicemail (iPhone)
Initial setup
- Turn the device off and back on.
- Select the Phone icon from the main screen.
- Select the Voicemail icon.
- Select the Setup Now button.
- Create a Voice Messaging PIN and select Save.
- Re-enter the password and select Save again.
To set up Visual Voicemail using the standard Voice Messaging interface
- From the home screen, select Phone.
- Select Keypad.
- Press and hold the 1 key.
- Follow the prompts to set up your password and greeting.
To record a new voicemail greeting
- Select the Phone icon from the main menu.
- Select Voicemail and then Greeting.
- Select Custom.
- Select Record, and record your greeting.
- Select Stop when you’re done.
- To listen to your greeting, select Play.
- When you’re satisfied with your greeting, select Save.
- You can set up a default greeting message by selecting Voicemail, Greeting and Default.
To retrieve or check for voice messages
- Select the Phone icon from the main menu.
- Select Voicemail.
- Select any message.
- New messages are indicated with a red circle that shows the number of new messages.
- Unheard messages have a blue dot next to them.
To check messages from another phone
- Call your Fido number or the message retrieval number (+1-647-839-6178).
- Interrupt the greeting message by pressing #.
- Enter your access code (do not press #).
To delete a message
- Select the Phone icon from the main menu.
- Select a message.
- Select Delete.
To recover deleted messages (messages will be permanently deleted after 10 days)
- Select Deleted Messages (at the end of your voicemail messages).
- Select a message.
- Select Undelete.
To reset your voicemail password
- From the main screen, select Settings, Phone and Change voicemail password. Enter your new password.
To modify the initial setup of Visual Voicemail
- Select the Phone icon from the main menu.
- Select Voicemail, Greeting and Custom Option/Save.
OR
- Select the 1 key.
- Follow the prompts to modify your greeting and personalize your password.
OR
- Dial the iPhone voicemail retrieval number (+1 647 839-6178) from a landline.
- Follow the prompts to modify your greeting and personalize your password.
To control the playback of messages
- Select the pause symbol to pause the message and select the resume symbol to resume playback.
- Skip to any point in a message by dragging the playhead along the scrubber bar.
To reply instantly from voicemail
- Select the Phone icon from the main menu.
- Select a message.
- Select Call Back.
Storage rules for Visual Voicemail
Number of messages |
Up to 35 messages
(Once you reach the maximum number of messages allowed, the old messages must be deleted in order to receive new ones.)
|
Length of messages |
5 minutes each
|
New messages |
10 days from the day you received the message, after which it will be automatically deleted |
Saved messages |
10 days from the day you first saved the message, after which it will be automatically deleted and cannot be saved again |
Call prompts when accessing Visual Voicemail by pressing and holding "1" on your phone
Prompt |
Voice Messaging System Prompts
|
|
Main Menu |
* |
Disconnect call |
1 |
Listen to messages |
2 |
Send a message |
3 |
Personal options |
|
Message Review Menu |
* |
Main menu |
# |
Next message |
0 |
Help |
1 |
Rewind message by 8seconds |
11 |
Rewin to beginning of message |
111 |
Rewind to previous message |
2 |
Pause |
3 |
Fast forward 8 seconds |
33 |
Fast forward to end of message |
4 |
Call return to message sender |
5 |
Play message sender and time |
7 |
Delete message |
9 |
Save message |
|
Personal Greeting Menu |
* |
Main menu |
0 |
N/A |
1 |
Set up voice messaging service |
2 |
Distribution list |
Using Visual Voicemail while travellingIn Canada on the Fido network:
- The service is available anywhere on the Fido network.
- When accessing this service, data usage will be deducted from your data add-on.
- If you access the Visual voicemail by dialing "1", long distance charges will apply.
- See our long distance rates.
Outside the Fido network in Canada:
- When accessing Visual Voicemail, Canadian roaming data usage will be deducted from your data add-on.
- If you access your Visual Voicemail by dialling ‘1’, Canadian roaming charges will apply.
- Messages left in your voicemail will incur Canadian roaming data charges.
- See our Canadian roaming rates.
While in the U.S. or Internationally:
- If you access your Visual Voicemail by dialling “1”, roaming charges will apply.
- Messages left in your voicemail will incur data roaming charges.
- See our U.S or International roaming rates.
To avoid data roaming charges:
- Select the Phone icon from the main menu.
- Select Settings.
- General.
- Network.
- Data roaming.
- Slide Data roaming to Off.
- Your Internet access through the network will be temporarily disabled until you turn the data roaming feature back to On.