Have you ever set up Google Voice with your iPhone? Well if you ever want to stop Google Voice from being your iPhone’s default voicemail then follow these simple steps:
- To deactivate forwarding and return to regular visual voicemail enter ##61# and hit call.
- If you are on AT&T in the United States and you not only want to deactivate regular voicemail but your busy voicemail as well, enter ##004# and hit call.
In case you are asking why?, well lets just say Google Voice is not all that it is cracked up to be.
UPDATE 2/13/12: This article gets quite a few hits. I wrote this back in 2010 before the iPhone made its way to Verizon and Sprint. I am not sure how to remove Google Voice from those networks as I do not own an iPhone on the networks. Sorry if this does not help you in your quest.
UPDATE 12/8/12: I discovered how to deactivate Google Voice on Verizon and Sprint. For Verizon dial *73 and for Sprint dial *38. I hope this answers some of the questions from others seeking help on the other two major carriers in the United States.
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awww man google voice is the worst. total trap too. haven't been able to have any voicemail on my phone for hte last 4 months and att has no clue what to do !!!!! after this seriously not liking google. can't believe they haven't had any consequences for this. .. its practically criminal
I can't even dial this one dial from AT&T dial pad or google voice .both way I can't dial .when I dial its come dismissed both number what to Do after jt .
this is great help...i spent a long time with att customer service to fix the problem...and still they could not do it...thanks a lot...btw nice picture of capitol blvd there...
thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I was insane. Over a year i've suffered with this. Missing calls all the time as my phone rang only a couple times. Now, I am freeeeee. You rock!
On the Droid3 if you use *73 it will disable google voice. Got it directly from Verizon Wireless.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Having never *activated* Google Voice voicemail, I was very annoyed when I couldn't "deactivate" it. And this information is not in *any* of the Google forums I could find. It's such a relief to have my iPhone visual voicemail back!!!!!
Hello JT, thank you so much for your help... in my case it´s a little more complicated than that and I wanted to know if you can help me. I have a GV phone number for my business and a personal phone number with at&t. I forwarded the GV to my iPhone. I would like to have two different voicemails one for my business, one for my personal calls, but if I activate GV voicemail all my calls go there. Hope you can help, thank you! :-)
when i try ##61# i get "setting erasure succeeded Fax Call Forwarding when unanswered" and my only option on the iphone is Dismiss, which seems not to do anything. Please HELP. I HATE GOOGLE VOICE
Thank you so much for this. It's saved my sanity. I was stuck with GV for a year until now. I'm FREEEEEE at last!
you da man JT. i misunderstood when i activated this feature. nothing like friends on the internet. thought it meant something different. google voice is like an aggressive russia secretary that sets new standards in the office (that one must abide by, or else)......
Thank you very much. I have been trying to get google voice off my phone for a couple of weeks.
thank so much!! i hate google voice..took me hours for att and apple to deactivate and found this code and it worked.. thanks!!!
Thanks. I spent a long time on Google and with AT&T to find this fix. I was glad I could help.
Thank you! Google Voice jacked my voicemail for two days before I found your blog. Lots of pissed off customers are happy to actually reach me now. Great work.
Thank you sooooo much for this tip. It works and google voice really sucks for making this so complicated.
Thanks much guys i just deactivated mine, it was just pain going through all this google voice crap.
You need to send this post to AT&T Wireless and the Apple iPhone support team. I spent two hours with AT&T and an Apple Tech rep and they both didn't realize that Google hijacks your visual voice mail on the iPhone. Since it didn't read Googles terms of service for Google Voice (who really does) you ind out by default once your Google voice account is activate. I find your post and I'm back to visual vmail on the iphone in less than a minute. Thanks
You need to send this post to AT&T Wireless and the Apple iPhone support team. I spent two hours with AT&T and an Apple Tech rep and they both didn't realize that Google hijacks your visual voice mail on the iPhone. Since it didn't read Googles terms of service for Google Voice (who really does) you ind out by default once your Google voice account is activate. I find your post and I'm back to visual vmail on the iphone in less than a minute. Thanks
