Check your voicemail

You can both listen to and read transcriptions of your voicemail messages.

To create a voicemail greeting and check your voicemail from any forwarding phone, turn on voicemail access and set your PIN.

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Check your voicemail in the Google Fi app

When someone leaves you a voicemail, you get a notification from the Google Fi app. To listen to your voicemail:

Open the Google Fi app .
At the bottom of the screen, tap Voicemail.
Tap a specific voicemail message to expand it.
You can read the transcript or tap the play button to listen.

View a tutorial on how to check your voicemail on iPhone.

Alternate ways to check voicemail

Read or listen through text

To get your voicemail transcriptions by text, go to your Voicemail settings. Turn on Voicemails by text.

To listen to the voicemail on the Google Fi app, tap the link at the end of the message.

Read or listen to voicemails in real time

A new feature in iOS 17 called Live Voicemail lets you read or listen to a voicemail while a caller leaves it. A transcript of the call appears on your screen. You can also choose to answer the phone in the middle of the voicemail.

To set it up:

Go to your iPhone Settings.
In the Settings menu, tap Phone Live Voicemail.
To turn it off or on, tap Live Voicemail.

Tip:

Even if you are going to use Live Voicemail you must still set up Google Fi voicemail.
If the iPhone is online, on iOS 17 or above, the iOS phone app receives the voicemail. If it’s offline, the Google Fi app receives the voicemail.

Listen through the Phone app

If phone alerts are turned on, you get a notification from your phone app when someone leaves you a voicemail. To listen to your voicemail:

Open the phone app.
Tap Voicemail Call voicemail.
When prompted, enter your voicemail PIN.
Once you listen to your voicemail, you can end the call.
To delete a message, press 6.

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