Geek Posted September 17, 2011 Posted September 17, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/recover-deleted-voicemail-iphone.jpg" alt="Recover deleted iPhone voicemail messages " title="recover-deleted-voicemail-iphone" width="320" height="480" class="alignright size-full wp-image-21357" /> If you accidentally deleted a voicemail on an <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a>, you can usually retrieve these messages by looking through a somewhat unknown “Deleted Messages” list. Here’s how to access this:</p> <ul> <li>Tap on Phone and “Voicemail” as usual</li> <li>Scroll all the way to the bottom of the voice messages list and look for and tap onto “Deleted Messages”</li> <li>Find and select the voicemail you want to listen to or recover:</li> <ul> <li><strong>Play:</strong> Tap on the voicemail message and then the play button to listen to it, or</li> <li><strong>Recover:</strong> Tap on the message and then choose “Undelete” to move the voicemail back to the stored list and out of Deleted Messages</li> </ul> </ul> <p>The iPhone will actually store all deleted voicemails in this list as long as you haven’t gone through here before and selected “Clear All” – which permanently trashes all deleted messages – making it fairly easy to recover voicemail that you’ve deleted from the main messages list. </p> <p>If you’re curious about more technical details, iPhone voicemails are stored as .amr files <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/14/manual-iphone-backup-data-locations/">on the phone itself at</a>:</p> <p><code>/private/var/mobile/Library/Voicemail</code></p> <p>That directory isn’t available to users without using a third party tool, or without using ftp to access a jailbroken iPhone. The messages are also contained within the standard iPhone backup which is <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/11/iphone-backup-location/">stored locally</a> on the synced computer, but they’re not easily read or listened to since they are contained within database files much like the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/08/read-iphone-sms-backup/">SMS files</a>.</p> <p>I’ve had an iPhone since they first came out, but I wasn’t aware of this feature until <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2011/09/16/iphone-101-recovering-deleted-voicemails/">TUAW</a> mentioned it in a post. Great tip!</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kgDg1q2Va5cakmA4b01AW0RJ3t4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kgDg1q2Va5cakmA4b01AW0RJ3t4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kgDg1q2Va5cakmA4b01AW0RJ3t4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kgDg1q2Va5cakmA4b01AW0RJ3t4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=YIj0ZwZ7EJ4:dQyuKiL6jA8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=YIj0ZwZ7EJ4:dQyuKiL6jA8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=YIj0ZwZ7EJ4:dQyuKiL6jA8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=YIj0ZwZ7EJ4:dQyuKiL6jA8:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=YIj0ZwZ7EJ4:dQyuKiL6jA8:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=YIj0ZwZ7EJ4:dQyuKiL6jA8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=YIj0ZwZ7EJ4:dQyuKiL6jA8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/YIj0ZwZ7EJ4" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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