How to Delete Voicemail on iPhone and Samsung Galaxy

The voicemail feature on smartphone is convenient, which allows you to send or receive information without texting any word. However, more like other multimedia content, each voicemail message gets downloaded on your mobile phone and takes up some space. As time goes by, your smartphone will lack storage and perform slower.

Fortunately, it is easy to delete voicemail messages from iPhone and Android phone with either a single message or multiple messages at one time. Get a problem of deleting voicemails on your mobile phone? Follow our guides below to do it and free up storage on your mobile phone quickly and simply.

• Part 1: How to delete voicemail messages on iPhone
• Part 2: How to delete voicemail messages on Android

Part 1. How to delete voicemail messages on iPhone

In this part, you can learn about several methods to delete voicemail messages on iPhone XS Max/XS/XR/X/8/8 Plus/7/7 Plus/6/6s/5.

Way 1: Delete a single voicemail on iPhone

In order to delete voicemail messages on iPhone, you'd better start with removing a single message.

Step 1. Open the Phone app from your iPhone home screen and tap "Voicemail" from bottom of the screen.

Step 2. Scroll down to find any voicemail message you want to remove from your device, swipe left across the voicemail message and tap the "Delete" button with red background. Now, the voicemail message should disappear.

In this way, you did get voicemail messages disppear from your eyes. However, they can be recovered with third-party apps on iPhone.

Way 2: Delete multiple voicemail on iPhone

The method above may be tedious depending on how frequent you send and receive voicemails. Apparently, there should be a quick way to help you delete voicemail messages at one time.

Step 1. Go to the "Voicemail" tab in your Phone app and tap on Edit on top of the screen.

Step 2. Next, touch the "minus" button in front each message you'd like to remove to summon the "Delete" buttons. Then tap all the Delete buttons to remove these unwanted messages from your device.

Way 3: Delete all voicemail thoroughly on iPhone

Unfortunately, Apple did not design any feature to help you delete all voicemails and protect your information and privacy. From this point, we recommend Apeaksoft iPhone Eraser. Its key features include:

In short, it is the best option to delete all voicemails from iPhone at one time.

How to delete voicemails from iPhone in one click

Step 1. Install the best iPhone eraser to your computer

Download and install iPhone Eraser on your computer. Hook up your iPhone to the computer via a USB cable. Start the iPhone Eraser and wait for it to detect your device automatically.

Note: Back up your iPhone with iTunes or iCloud first.

Step 2. Decide an erasing level

Now, you will be presented three options related to erasing level, Low, Medium and High. The former one overwrites your iPhone one time; the second one does it twice and the latter one repeat overwriting for three times. Select a proper erasing level according to your situations.

Step 3. Delete voicemails in one click

If you are ready, click the Start button on the window to begin deleting voicemails and other personal data on your iPhone. When it is done, disconnect your iPhone and recover the data from iCloud or iTunes backup except voicemails.

Part 2. How to delete voicemail messages on Android

On the other hand, deleting voicemails on Android devices is a bit different from iPhone.

Way 1: Delete voicemail manually on Android

If you have a Voicemail app on your mobile phone, go to "Settings" > "Application Manager", find the "Voicemail" app and tap "Clear data" on the App Info screen. For Android phones using the Visual Voicemail feature from mobile carriers, follow the guides below to do it.

Delete voicemails on AT & T

Step 1. Open the Phone app, tap 1 in the box and press the phone call icon to summon voicemail.

Step 2. Enter number 1 to listen to the voicemail messages, select an unwanted voicemail and hit 7 to delete voicemail.

Delete voicemails on T-Mobile

Step 1. Also call number 1 in your Phone app to call voicemail, enter your password if prompted.

Step 2. Input 9 to listen to each voicemail and then press number 7 on the unwanted message to delete it.

Delete voicemails on Verizon

Step 1. Call *86 on your Verizon phone and press # to access your voicemails.

Step 2. Select the voicemail to delete and hit 7 to remove it from your phone.

Delete voicemails on Sprint

Step 1. Long press the envelope icon on your screen and input your password to access voicemails.

Step 2. Highlight any unwanted voicemail and tap 7 on your virtual keyboard to delete voicemail.

Way 2: Delete voicemail with Android Device Manager

If the Android phone is not in your hand, is there any way to delete voicemails from your smartphone? The answer is Google's Android Device Manager. If you have set up your Google account on your smartphone, it could erase your device remotely.

Step 1. Type in www.google.com/android/devicemanager in the address bar of your browser and press Enter to open Google's Android Device Manager.

Step 2. Sign in your Google account associated to your device. Then Google will display your phone on the map, show you three options, "Ring", "Lock" and "Erase".

Step 3. Select the "Erase" option and start deleting voicemails and other data on your phone. When it is done, the welcome screen will pop up and you can restore files from the backup in your Google account to your smartphone.

Conclusion

Based on the tutorial above, you might understand how to delete voicemails on iPhone and Android phone. In addition to the common ways to remove voicemail messages from your device, we also shared a one-click solution to iPhone, Apeaksoft iPhone Eraser. Now, you can choose a proper way and feel free to do what you want.