Hello

Congratulations on switching to the Pixel, you’ll have a lot of fun with it.

Unfortunately, Swisscom appears to have had an exclusive Visual Voicemail contract with Apple since the introduction of the iPhones.

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Thanks for the quick reply!

I understand the value the contract had ten years ago when iPhones were new, but in 2019 Visual Voicemail is a standard.

And considering that more and more people are switching to Android, it seems logical that Swisscom would forget the contract and modernize its offering a bit.

(Don’t know if Swisscom employees read the forum)

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  • Beni_97 has responded to this post.
    3 months later

    StLa

    Good morning everyone

    Great news: As of yesterday, Visual Voicemail is available on my Pixel 3 with Android Q Beta 5 and I was suddenly able to activate it with the push of a button -bf8e-86591b655408]

    The voicemail screen

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    I can’t activate it on my Google Pixel 2 XL yet or I don’t know where, but it’s really nice that something finally seems to be working. 👍

    Thanks for the tip @Beni_97

    Will this be rolled out in stages?

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    @Anonymous

    Thanks for the tip.

    Now we’ve been waiting for this for so long and we’ll be able to hold out for a few more days. But I’m right in assuming that more information will come, when, how, etc.?

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    a month later

    Exactly the same thing for me (Essential Phone on Wingo)… seems to have activated itself on native Android @Anonymous or with an automatic Play Store update of the Android dialer (no system update, the last one is from the beginning of August and in a few days there will be Q) to do; Previously I didn’t have a Mailbox menu item in the dialer either. I’ve now switched it off again to get rid of the message (you really think you’ve caught something). Even though I’ve never missed VVM (unlike VoLTE, which unfortunately still doesn’t on the PH-1 along with Wingo), I certainly welcome the fact that the majority of smartphone users are no longer discriminated against.

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    So I’m not particularly receptive to irony in the “welcome to the future” style in this context. Many other providers worldwide have been offering VoLTE, WifiCalling, VVN for a long time. Only when I look at these topics here in the forum is there an extreme slowdown, except for the iPhone. All the arguments like “Google is to blame”, right up to quality pretexts… And then when things move forward in the background, things get messed up at the first attempt without communication….??

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    Did I make a mistake by rejecting the request and blocking the sender of the message? 🤔 The message looked a lot like “evil” to me.

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    @Toppiofro61

    a: A lot of Android devices now support VoLTE & Co natively in our network. We are also annoyed that some manufacturers do not integrate the necessary settings. It’s really not up to us. Every device that has the settings integrated is permitted on our network.

    b: We are in discussions with Google to ensure that VVM is activated as agreed. This SMS message shouldn’t come at all. From our point of view, it is also a nuisance because it causes uncertainty among customers. Hope the situation will improve soon.

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    • Hli likes that.
    a month later

    I had VVM running on my Pixel 2XL with Android 9 and everything worked. After upgrading to Android 10, the feature was gone again. Is this due to Swisscom or Google?

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    2 months later
    8 days later

    Hello, I received a “Looking for new voicemails” notification from the Telephone app today.

    After I opened the app, the voicemail tab was back (it had disappeared with Android 10).

    It was also written that the voicemail could not be connected.

    I also now have a toggle in the app settings to (de)activate VVM.

    "Start/Stop VMM) on 444 no longer works either.

    Does this mean that VVM is finally here, but something isn’t working, or is it an Android 10 bug?

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    5 months later

    Today I tried to activate VVM on a Galaxy Note 10+ with 5G. Not possible because the option does not appear in the mailbox settings. Unfortunately, the Swisscom helpdesk was of no help either. Has anyone managed it?

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