Listening To and Deleting Voicemail Messages

The beauty of this system is you don’t have to listen to your messages in order—you can tap directly on the message you want to hear and that message plays. To hear your messages through your iPhone’s speaker, tap the Speaker button on the top right. You’ll see a status bar that moves from left to right as your message plays, which shows you how long the message is. Now, here’s the thing: When a message is new, you just tap on it and it plays. But once you’ve heard it, when you tap on the message, a little blue Play/Pause button appears before it. To hear the message again, tap that little blue button. To pause the message, tap that same little blue button again. To return a call, tap on the message, then tap the green Call Back button. To delete a message, tap on it, then tap on the red Delete button. Once you delete a message, it’s not really deleted from your iPhone—it just moves that message to a deleted area (kind of the way deleting a file on your computer just puts it in your Trash or Recycle Bin). You can still see, and hear, your deleted messages by tapping on (I know—it’s pretty obvious) Deleted Messages (at the end of your voicemail list). Once there, to move a deleted message back to your regular list, just tap on it, then tap the gray Undelete button. However, if you really want all of your deleted voicemails off your iPhone for good, once you’re in the Deleted screen, just tap the Clear All button. Of course, you can also play the message from the Notification Center (just swipe downward from the top of any screen to make....