What’s your favorite new iOS 10 feature? Share with us in the comments below. Once you read it, you can choose to play the message using the “ Play” button below. Tap on a voicemail and it will expand to show the transcription text right there. You’ll then see a list of all your voicemails. To access voicemail, go to the “ Phone” app and then tap on “ Voicemail“. If your carrier doesn’t support it, you won’t get access to this feature. Major carriers like AT&T do support the feature. This feature is dependent on a carrier feature called Visual Voicemail. Does Your Carrier Support Visual Voicemail? If you read the first 1-2 lines, you’ll know if the message is a spam, and you can delete it, or if it’s an important message, then you can choose to listen to it. Even if the transcription feature isn’t 100% accurate, it’s enough to give you an idea for what the message is going to be about. If there are any breaks, you’ll see blanks there. How Transcription WorksĪs long as the person on the other side is speaking resonantly slowly and clearly, iOS 10 will be able to transcribe what they’re saying, word for work. It used to be almost impossible to get voicemail to text, and it cost 5, 10, even 20/month, just to have a few messages transcribed.
Enter your password again to confirm it, then tap Done. Create a voicemail password, then tap Done. Go to the Phone app, then tap the Voicemail tab. Now you’ll be able to get a sense of what the voicemail is about before even listening to it. Answer: If your carrier supports Visual Voicemail, you can set it up with these steps: 1. Another thing is a new transcription feature.
On Android, they offer an app for managing voicemail but their support pages and forums don’t contain instructions for how to turn this off on an iPhone. Firstly, there’s a new CallKit API that lets apps like Truecaller to alert you when a phone number has been tagged as a spammer. I already have visual voicemail within iOS, so there’s no need for an additional transcript of my voicemails. In iOS 10, Apple is doing two things to make this an easier process. We usually let it to go to the voicemail. I know that most of us won’t even pick up a phone unless it’s someone from the contacts. It’s surprising just how many of the phone calls we get are either spam or scams.