Have you ever wanted to permanently save a voicemail message that you received on your iPhone? Or maybe a text message or iMessage? While all of these messages are backed up to your Mac when you sync your iPhone, Apple doesn’t provide an easy way to view or extract these messages. Instead, you’ll need to use a third-party application like PhoneView ($30).
Download Voicemails From Iphone To Mac Computer You have successfully extracted messages and voicemails from iPhone or iPad and saved it on your Mac. Besides saving voicemails and messages, some other things which can be easily backed on your Mac using PhoneView are your notes, media files, call history and contacts. There is another way. Per this instructables an iTunes backup of the iPhone contains the voicemail files in these folders: /Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ Mac Documents and Settings(username)Application DataApple ComputerMobileSyncBackup. Manage your iPhone. Get a trusted software to transfer and save your music, messages, files and data. Safely back up any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Powerful and user-friendly, iMazing is simply the best iOS device manager for Mac and PC. Get full control over your iOS device. Voicemail messages are a pain to save on your Mac unless you have the right software. Here's the fast, easy way to download voice mail from an iPhone.
Update June 2014: I recently learned about iExplorer. It appears to do everything that PhoneView does and more. For example, PhoneView does not let you retrieve calendar data from an iPhone. I need to do this for a client so I will be trying iExplorer and its helpful tutorials. I bought iExplorer but it appears that the free version lets you extract text messages.
PhoneView is made by eCamm, who also makes Printopia (which I recommend in my Tech Tip on printing from iPhones and iPads). PhoneView is one of a handful of competing applications which let you extract assorted data from your iPhone or iPad. In my experience PhoneView is the easiest to use. Here’s how you can use it to permanently save a voicemail message to your Mac.
Iphone Voicemail Setup
- Purchase, download and install PhoneView
- Open PhoneView and connect your iPhone to your Mac via USB cable.
- On the left-hand side of the PhoneView window, click on Voicemail. You’ll be notified that PhoneView will need some time to load the data from your phone.
- When the loading is finished, you’ll see a list of your voicemail messages. If you’d like to listen to a message, click on it once, then click the Play button in the lower right corner.
- If you’d like to save the voicemail message, click on it once, then click the Copy from iPhone button on PhoneView’s Toolbar.
- You’ll be prompted to select a folder in which you’d like to save the message. For example, you could chose your Desktop.
- Click the Save button.
- A few seconds later, the voicemail message will appear on your Desktop as a .m4a audio file.
- You can click on this file and play it any time you’d like.
Download Iphone Voicemail To Mac Computer
Similarly, PhoneView can be used to extract your Call Log, notes, text messages, photos, music, podcasts, and more from your iPhone.