How to Turn off Voicemail on iPhone

Open the Phone app. The app has a blue and white phone receiver icon located on the home screen. You’ll need to talk to your mobile carrier directly to disable voicemail for your account. ^[2]

• This method will delete greetings, messages, and voicemail settings, so you should only use it if you want to disable voicemail permanently.

Dial your carrier’s customer service switchboard. Normally, you can dial *611 and tap the handset icon to call your carrier. If this doesn’t work, you can call your carrier’s direct customer support number. Here are some popular vendor support lines:

• T-Mobile or Sprint: Dial 611 or call 1-800-937-8997
• Verizon: Dial *611 or call 1-800-922-0204
• AT&T: Dial 611 or 1-800-331-0500
• Telus: Dial 611 or 1-866-558-2273
• Xfinity Mobile: Dial 1-888-936-4968
• BT Mobile: Dial 0800 800 150
• Rogers: Dial 611 or 1-888-764-3772
• Vodafone: Dial 199.
• Cricket: Dial 611 or 1-800-274-2538

Ask the operator to disable voicemail. You may need to explain the reason to the operator (for example, you are traveling long distances, you do not use the service, etc.). Whatever the reason, it doesn’t matter.

• After voicemail is disabled, calls that you reject or don’t answer will be routed to a recording indicating that the mailbox is inactive.

Open the Settings section.

of the iPhone. The app has a gray gear icon located on the home screen. If you don’t use your phone for a while or are traveling somewhere with bad signal, you can forward calls to another number. ^[3]

• Forwarding calls to another phone number means your iPhone won’t ring when someone calls you.
• If you live in the United States and don’t have an alternate number to forward calls to, you can get a toll-free number from Google Voice. See Get a Google Voice phone number for more details.
• Call forwarding must be supported by the carrier and subscription plan.

Scroll down and tap Phone . This option is in the 5th group of settings.

Tap Call Forwarding . This option is near the bottom of the “CALLS” section.

Swipe the “Call Forwarding” switch to the On position

(On). When this switch turns green, Call Forwarding is ready to be set up.

Click Forward To . This option is located below the switch icon.

Enter the phone number to which you want to forward calls. Remember to include the area code (and country code, if applicable).

Click the Back button in the upper left corner. Since there is no “Save” option, when you press return, the changes will be saved. As long as call forwarding is enabled, all incoming calls will be routed to this number.

• To turn off call forwarding, go back to Settings > Phone > Call Forwarding and tap to toggle the switch to the Off (white/grey) position.

Put iPhone on airplane mode. If you can’t turn off voicemail by any means, just fill your inbox with messages so that no one can leave new messages. We need an extra phone to proceed with this method. Start by putting your iPhone in airplane mode to speed up the process.

• To put your phone into airplane mode, you need to open the Contrp Center by swiping up from the bottom of the home screen (in the case of a physical Home key), or swiping down from the upper right corner and tapping Click on the airplane icon (if there is no Home key).

Call iPhone with another phone. Since iPhone is in airplane mode, calls go straight to voicemail.

Leave a message for yourself. You just say “This is the first message” or anything else (length doesn’t matter). When you’re done, hang up the phone.