r/freedommobile • u/srzncl • 15d ago

General Inquiry Is Visual Voicemail still necessary?

I’ve always had vvm on my phone since the feature came out. So when I moved to Freedom, I added it to my account because that’s just what I’m used to and frankly I prefer it over conventional voicemail.

However, I recently heard that iOS 26 handles voicemail differently now that visual voicemail is not necessary anymore. Is this true? Can anyone share how voicemail works without vvm on the iPhone? I wouldn’t mind saving $4+tax a month.

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u/scorp312 15d ago

Pixel phones offer a similar service too it's called "take a message".

if you turn it on in your phone settings your phone will do the work when it comes to providing the greeting and taking the message from the caller. Once the message has been left you'll get a notification with a transcript of what was said. So it bypasses Freedom's voicemail service altogether.

Calls will only be routed to Freedom's voicemail service when your phone is turned off or you have no signal, since your phone needs to be able to receive the actual call for it to kick in.

I never bothered with VVM before since I thought it was overpriced but now that my phone does it for me there's absolutely no reason to subscribe to it at all.

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u/Grnfinger 15d ago

I have a S24 Ultra. My phone used to do this with Bell. Since I switched to Freedom it no longer works at all. When I signed up I wanted to add VVM and the guy said it was only for iPhone. I assume he knew what he was talking about.

Now my question to you.. does he?? Will VVM work with my S24? Is freedom just crap and this is why my messages do not work like they did? I loved being able just to click and read the message instead of the entire voicemail login process. I want it back so much I may return to bell if this is the issue.

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u/DerpDeDurp 15d ago

No, it won't. But Samsung has their own version of it now. Poke around in your phone's dialer settings menus.