📞 How to Delete Voicemail on iPhone (2025 Guide — Still Annoying)

You’d think in the year of AI mode, iPhone 17, and cyberpunk anime sequels, Apple would’ve added a “Select All” for voicemail.
Nope. Not even close.

Welcome to voicemail deletion in iOS 18, where you still have to tap. Every. Single. One. Twice.

🧼 iPhone Voicemail Deletion — The Brutal Truth

Here’s the harsh reality about voicemail management in 2025:

Yes, you're stuck manually deleting voicemail entries one by one, not like emails or contacts — and to make things worse, you have to do it twice.

🚮 Step-by-Step: Delete Voicemails (Twice!)

🔹 Step 1: Manually Delete Voicemails

1. Open the Phone app
2. Go to the Voicemail tab
3. Tap Edit in the top left
4. Tap the circles next to each voicemail you want gone
5. Tap Delete (bottom right)
   or slide from right to left to delete one by one

😑 You thought that was it? Oh no…

🔹 Step 2: Empty the Deleted Messages Folder

Deleted voicemails don’t vanish immediately — they move to a little-known trash bin at the bottom of the screen.

1. Scroll to the very bottom of the Voicemail screen
2. Tap Deleted Messages
3. Tap Clear All (if you’re lucky) — or delete those one by one too

🫠 Yup. Voicemails are the only thing Apple treats like deleted emails from 2003.

💡 Bonus Tips for the Voicemail-Overloaded

• Voicemail full?
  Even if you delete from the main screen, your storage won’t clear until you clear “Deleted Messages”
• Still seeing “Voicemail Full”?
  Try restarting your iPhone after clearing trash — sometimes the status lags
• Want to go nuclear?
  You can disable voicemail by contacting your carrier, or redirect to a fake number/Google Voice

🤖 Wishlist for iOS 19 (Not Holding Our Breath)

• ✅ “Select All” voicemails
• ✅ Slide-to-bulk-delete like Mail
• ✅ Siri shortcut to purge old voicemails
• ✅ Option to auto-delete after 30 days (currently nonexistent)

Until then? It’s just you… and your thumb… vs. 117 robocalls from “USPS package delivery scam.”

🧾 TL;DR – Deleting Voicemail on iPhone