How to protect voicemails from someone who has died

[Fallulah]

I didn’t know where else to post this; sorry if it’s in the wrong place.

I have an iPhone SE. I discovered it stores my voicemails in a list until I delete them. My partner has a more up to date iPhone and he doesn’t have this function despite both of us being on EE. I recently discovered it also stores all of my deleted voicemails in a different list.

Since discovering these lists I’ve had a happy morning listening to voicemails about the most basic things, but they are the voice of my dad who died in 2021. It was lovely.

My phone isn’t great on battery and is out of contract. I can upgrade if I want.

Will I lose the voicemails if I change phone? Some are in the normal list and some are in the deleted list. Is there a way of downloading/saving them somewhere?

I’d get another phone, and play your message on your phone, and record it on the other phone and save it somewhere just in case. Tape it on your partners phone and get him to email the recording to you or whatever.

I’ve done that with a landline answermachine home recording of a now deceased loved one’s voice for the same reason.

My brother had a cheery voicemail from my mum which was sent the night before she died suddenly the next day. I don't know how but the voicemail got deleted and we were gutted. I would defo play them out loud and record them on another device (get a recording app). That way you can store the files somewhere safe. Quality won't be quite the same but at least you have them 😊

I would record them as per pp suggestions.

I saved my dads to my notes, quick google tells you how to do it. So If I change iPhones they'll get moved with your iCloud data.

Someone more technical than me can probably help more but just play them on speaker and record them on a better device.

Play them on your phone and have your partner record them using Voice Memos on his iPhone. This is what I did with my dads voicemails.

Yours is visual voicemail. Tap on the voicemail and then the circled icon. You can then save it to your iCloud Drive or sent it wherever you like. If your DH is on EE too he just needs to activate it to get the same set up

Can’t thank you enough for this! I’d never noticed that button come up before! All now safely uploaded to two different places. Thank you!! 💐