How to Delete Voicemail on iPhone 5/5s/6/6s

We receive voicemail messages everyday through our iPhone. Sometimes, we are not aware of these voicemails pile up and eventually eat up our iPhone storage. What’s more important, you may want to permanently clear the voicemail on your iPhone to prevent your personal info leaks. In this guide, we will offer you two ways to delete iPhone voicemail.

Part 1. How to Delete Voicemail on iPhone Directly

Step 1. Open the Phone app on the iPhone and tap on the "Voicemail" tab.

Step 2. Swipe left on the voicemail message, and you will see a red "Delete" button when it appears, then tap on that to delete the message.

Or you can delete multiple Voicemails at once:

Step 1. Open the Phone app on the iPhone and tap on the "Voicemail" tab.

Step 2. Tap on "Edit". Use multiple touch points to tap on multiple red minus buttons simultaneously, and then tap on the red "Delete" buttons.

The above methods only delete voicemails from the Phone app, and it puts them into a recycle bin/trash where it can be recovered.

Remove deleted voicemail from iPhone:

Step 1. Open the Phone app on the iPhone and tap on the "Voicemail" tab.

Step 2. Scroll to the bottom of the list of messages and tap "Deleted Messages."

Step 3. Tap "Clear All" to remove from the iPhone all the voicemails that you had previously deleted.

Note: While some users are pointing to issues like a grayed "Clear All" that won't allow you to delete all voicemail messages at once. And the manually deleted voicemail can also be recoverable with some professional iOS data recovery. So how to delete all voicemails on iPhone completely? Here's how to fix:

Part 2. How to Permanently Delete All Voicemail on iPhone 5/5s/6/6s

PhoneClean helps clean up your iPhone and protect your privacy in every possible way. The Private Clean feature allows to clear sensitive data like voicemail, call history, messages, and notes permanently. Plus, it scans the manually deleted contacts, notes, and messages and helps you completely remove the deleted items to make them unrecoverable. PhoneClean also finds & clear kinds of junk files from your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch to free up more space and optimize the system.

Step 1. Download PhoneClean and install it on your computer. Open it, and connect your iPhone to computer via a USB.

Step 2. Select the Private Clean option, and click the Scan button.

Step 3. Click Message Attachments and select Voicemail. Choose the items you want to delete, and the back to the result page. Click the Clean button to clear the voicemail on iPhone permanently.

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