iPhone- Setting Up Your Voice Mail on iPhone

Have you just bought a new iPhone and are having aEnter the password you have created and then you
hard time getting the voice mail set up? You maywill be asked to record a greeting. You will have the
have spent hours on the phone with customeroption of using a default iPhone voice mail greeting
service and gotten nowhere. Here, you will find thethat will include your phone number or you can
help you need to get your voice mail set up easily.record your own. You can change your greeting at
The first thing is not to put the SIM card from yourany time by tapping voice mail, greeting, custom and
old phone into your iPhone. Everything else will workthen record. Do not forget to save your greeting
but you voice mail and visual mail will likely not work.once you are satisfied with it.
If you go to an AT&T store, you can get a newStudents at Penn state who subscribe to Penn
SIM put in your phone and help with gettingiPhone can log in to My iPhone and setup voice mail
everything from your old SIM card transferred to it.for their iPhones. PennKey authentication will be
Now you are ready for the next step. Call customerrequired. Once on the home page, look for Features
service at AT&T (the exclusive iPhone serviceand Voice Mail and go to that page. Here, you will put
provider in the US) and tell the representative thatin the password you have created. You can change
you need to setup voice mail. Be sure to tell him orthis password at any time by logging in on My iPhone
her to check to make sure the forwarding feature toor through the voice mail icon on your phone. After
forward calls to your voice mail is turned on. This isyou have entered your password, re-enter it is the
something that is often overlooked by customerfield, Confirm Password. After up press the submit
service representatives. Once this is done, you arebutton, your account will be updated to include it.
ready to actually setup voice mail.To record your greeting, press the 'messages'
Before you begin, it is a good idea to know whatbutton, it will be to the right of the keypad. Press '0'
password you want to use. Might write down whatto bring up the mailbox options. From there, you will
you want to record as your outgoing message, too.be prompted to choose the type of greeting you
Doing this will save time and make the process towant, such as busy, unavailable and name. Then you
setup voice mail go smoother.will get a prompt from the system to record your
Your password should be between 6 and 15greeting. When you are finished, choose accept, listen
characters. Make sure it is something you canand, if you desire, re-record. When you are satisfied
remember but others will find impossible to guess.with your greeting, press * or # to go back to the
Now you tap the voice mail icon on your iPhone. Youmenu or exit.
will be asked to create a password at this point.