How to Record a Voicemail Greeting on iPhone

Sam Costello has been writing about tech since 2000. His writing has appeared in publications such as CNN.com, PC World, InfoWord, and many others.

What to Know

• Open the Phone app, go to the Voicemail tab, and tap Greeting >Custom.
• Tap Record and record your desired greeting. Tap Stop when you're done.
• Tap Play to hear your greeting. Tap Save to keep the greeting or tap Record if you want to change it.

You can change your voicemail greeting on your iPhone whenever you like. Here's how to do it on an iPhone running iOS 11 and later.

How to Record a Voicemail Greeting on iPhone

You can create any voicemail greeting you'd like, and change it whenever desired. Here's how.

1. Tap the Phone app to open it.

Tap Record and start speaking.

Want a detailed overview of how to use the iPhone's Visual Voicemail feature? Check out how to use visual voicemail on the iPhone.

The next time you want to change the voicemail greeting on your iPhone, follow these steps again. You can change your iPhone voicemail message as many times as you like; there are no fees or limitations to the number of greetings you create.

To use the iPhone's default voicemail greeting instead of your custom option, choose Default, rather than Custom in the Greeting screen. Your custom greeting is saved, so you can select it again.

Need to delete voicemails from your iPhone? Learn how to delete voicemail on iPhone.

iPhone Voicemail Message Tips

Here are a few tips on how to use iPhone voicemail efficiently:

• Only one custom voicemail greeting can be stored on an iPhone. Any new message that is recorded overwrites the existing custom greeting. You can't switch between other greetings made in the past. If you want to reuse an old greeting, record it again.
• There isn't a button to delete a custom greeting. Instead, record a new one to replace the one you want to remove.
• While it is possible to undelete voicemails in some situations on the iPhone, voicemail greetings cannot be restored. If you record a new greeting and save it, the old one is gone.

iPhone voicemail greetings cannot be undeleted, but some deleted voicemails can be recovered. Find out how to undelete voicemails on the iPhone.

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