{"id":40055,"date":"2023-07-13T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40055"},"modified":"2023-07-17T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T21:40:09","slug":"ios-17s-live-voicemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/13\/ios-17s-live-voicemail\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 17&rsquo;s Live Voicemail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2023\/06\/ios-17s-live-voicemail-finally-makes-this-ios-13-feature-useful-for-me\/\">Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2023\/06\/ios-17s-live-voicemail-finally-makes-this-ios-13-feature-useful-for-me\/\">\n<p>Live Voicemail finally means I can turn on another feature that I&rsquo;ve been tempted to use since iOS 13: Silence Unknown Callers.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve always been reticent to turn on Silence Unknown Callers because I worry too much about missing important calls. There are simply too many times that I get a call I don&rsquo;t want to miss from, say, a doctor&rsquo;s office, or a delivery person, or a contractor.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But in iOS 17, if you have Silence Unknown Callers active, callers with unrecognized numbers will go straight to Live Voicemail, allowing you to decide whether or not to pick up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/05\/ios-17-announced\/\">iOS 17 Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"ios-17s-live-voicemail-update-2023-07-17\">Update (2023-07-17): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/07\/14\/ios-17-live-voicemail-confusing\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/07\/14\/ios-17-live-voicemail-confusing\/\"><p>Unless you have a custom-created voicemail message, the default  iOS 17  voicemail recording asks callers to provide a reason why they&rsquo;re calling after the tone sounds, and are informed that &ldquo;the person you&rsquo;re calling may pick up.&rdquo; Note that if you had a custom message in  iOS 16 , there will be no change, so this impacts people who are using the default voicemail greeting feature.<\/p><p>The &ldquo;may pick up&rdquo; wording seems to be confusing some people who are calling  iPhone  owners that have  iOS 17  installed. Two separate Reddit threads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/iOSBeta\/comments\/14wvsxc\/ios_17_db3_live_voicemail_awkwardness\/\">feature complaints<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/iOSBeta\/comments\/1455t6f\/ios_17_db_1_live_voicemail_prompt_seems_to\/\">Reddit users<\/a> who have received calls from people who have not understood Apple&rsquo;s messaging.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Moren: Live Voicemail finally means I can turn on another feature that I&rsquo;ve been tempted to use since iOS 13: Silence Unknown Callers. I&rsquo;ve always been reticent to turn on Silence Unknown Callers because I worry too much about missing important calls. 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