Google is making a giant change to how Fi customers on iPhone entry their voicemails: as a substitute of getting voicemails from a devoted tab within the Fi app, iPhone customers will be capable to get them proper from the native iOS Cellphone app as a substitute. The change began rolling out on Tuesday and will likely be absolutely rolled out by July 2nd, the Fi workforce says in a support forum post.
In August, Google plans to part out voicemail within the iOS Google Fi app. “You probably have voicemails you wish to maintain, you will need to obtain them utilizing Google Takeout earlier than August thirteenth,” the workforce says in its publish. “After this date, they are going to now not be accessible within the Google Fi app.”
Should you use Google Fi and have an iPhone, you’ll have seen some voicemails present up within the iOS Cellphone app earlier than this announcement. However that has solely occurred underneath a particular set of circumstances. If a person had iOS’s Live Voicemail feature turned on, your telephone was turned on, and also you have been inside Google Fi’s service space when getting a voicemail, that voicemail can be delivered to the iPhone’s Cellphone app, Google’s Patrick Seybold tells The Verge. After this replace has rolled out to you, all voicemails will present up within the iPhone’s Cellphone app.
Google teased in April that this modification was within the works. At the moment, Google also announced a extra reasonably priced Google Fi Limitless Necessities plan that prices $35 per 30 days.