[Guide] How to Use Voicemail Transcription in iOS 10 on iPhone

What is Voicemail Transcription in iOS 10

We know iOS has the visual voicemail menu since the beginning, which enable us to listen to voicemails without calling a phone number. Now iOS is trying to enhance it by transcribing voicemails - Voicemail Transcription, which means you can read your voicemail directly.

Voicemail Transcription is now a beta version and available in iOS 10 on iPhone 6s or later. And your carrier must support Visual Voicemail. Besides, you need to set your Siri language to U.S English or Canada English.

Steps to set your Siri language: Setting > Siri > Language.

How to Use Voicemail Transcription in iOS 10 on iPhone

Step 1. Open Phone app on your iPhone.

Step 2. Tap Voicemail menu at the bottom - the fifth one.

Step 3. Select a voicemail message and tap it. You will see the transcript of the voicemail.

If you want to share the voicemail transcription, follows:

Step 4. Press and hold the transcript until the option menu shows. Drag the selection bar to choose the transcript you want to share.

Step 5. Tap share, and select app with which you share the transcript.

However, anything cannot be perfect. Some people do not buy it. So you are one of them who dislike the Voicemail Transcription, and want to turn off Voicemail Transcription in iOS 10, check out this tip: How to Disable Voicemail Transcription Feature in iOS 10 >

Bonus Tip: How to Recover Deleted Voicemail in iOS 10 on iPhone

Accidently deleting voicemails can happen to some of us. Many people hold that voicemails deleted cannot get back. However, in fact we can bring our voicemail deleted back, if we get help from some tools. PhoneRescue is the tool we introduce to you today.

PhoneRescue can recover any data by accidently deleting, even though you have no iTunes and iCloud backups. To retrieve your voicemails deleted, you just need 3 steps.

Step 1. Download PhoneRescue if you don't have it on your computer (PC/Mac) > Connect your iPhone to your computer, and run PhoneRescue > Select Recover from iOS Device, and then click the on the go button at the bottom right corner.

Step 2. Wait for PhoneRescue to finish analyzing your iPhone.

Step 3. Select Voicemail on the left side > Select which voicemail you want to recover > Choose Recover to Device or Recover to Computer. And then you get your voicemail back. Free download PhoneRescue Now.

Also Read: How to Use Stickers in iMessage on iPhone 7 >

The Bottom Line

Voicemail Transcription enables you to not only listen to your voicemails but also read them. And if your voicemails is deleted accidently, you can recover them to your device or computer with PhoneRescue.

Try PhoneRescue free now.