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Yup, You can Fill Up Your iPhone Mailbox

July 28, 2007 by in Apple with 6 Comments

Macworld Author, Jim Dalrymple, has found that the iPhone visual voicemail is not too different from normal voicemail in that it can fillup.

Last night I got a message on the iPhone that my Visual Voicemail was 92 percent full and that I should delete some messages. Being the daredevil that I am, I decided not to delete any messages and let the mailbox fill up and see what happened.

[...] Tonight my mailbox filled up and I found out that it works no differently than what my old AT&T voicemail did with my BlackBerry. If you call my phone right now, you’ll get a message saying “The mailbox belonging to Jim Dalrymple is full and cannot receive anymore messages. Please try again later.”

I was thinking that maybe the messages at the bottom would automatically delete or some other magical thing would happen, but nope, it just won’t take any more messages. And in case you’re wondering, it took 40 voicemails with a total time of 17:47 to fill it up.

Wouldn’t it have made more sense that the voicemails (since they are downloaded to the phone) be unlimited and expire off AT&T servers after a specific time?


  • Anthony

    yeah I am getting annoyed that SMS fills up too and you have to delete messages

  • TechCF

    SMS fills up? Thats ridiculous… I can have hundreds of thousands on my 32mb phone, why can’t the iPhone have? It is just lame if it has split memory!

  • chad

    I havent had my SMS fill up on the iPhone yet and I have tons of messages. Although after reading this I did do some voicemail cleanup.

    Thanks for the heads up ;)

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com Dan

    You sure SMS fills up?

  • http://klogged.wordpress.com Kyle

    I don’t believe the voice mail messages are downloaded to the phone. You can’t listen to voicemail if you have no service. If they were downloaded you wouldn’t need to be connected to AT&T to listen to VM.

  • Eddie

    Yup, SMS filled up in less than a month of usage, so I’m estimating

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