Mine doesn’t buzz at me again; but it does show that there’s a message. But it may be considerably more than an hour before I look at the phone.
Like I said: if someone texts my cell I’ll see it. Sometime. Eventually. If they text my landline, I’ll never know about it (until and unless, two weeks later, I finally get them to pick up and they say ‘But I texted you!’ This has happened.)
This is a big advantage to having a cell phone that I got while living in another state. If I get a phone call from 406 (Montana), it’s either a wrong number, a scam, or the alumni office. If I get a phone call from 216, 440, or maybe 330 (Cleveland and the surrounding area), it’s probably someone who I have actual business with, even if I don’t recognize the number.
That still leaves other area codes uncertain, but there are few enough calls from them that it’s usually no big deal to just answer them and find out.
We rarely if ever answer calls from an unknown number unless we’re expecting such a call. If they leave a VM we call back, if they do not they can GFT.
It’s weird, but everyone’s talking about voicemails, and I don’t think I’ve either received or left a voicemail in something like a decade. I’m actually not sure how to access VM on my iPhone.
Yeah, that’s way more than “weird.”
Voice mail is accessed by the voice mail tab in the Phone app (LR corner):
I said I wasn’t sure; I didn’t say I couldn’t have figured it out.
Send me your phone number, and I’ll leave you a voice mail…
And break my streak?
my aunt reads every piece fo mail and I have to answer every phone call like its a cargo cult waiting for a sigh the ships coming in…
Most of the time our unknown calls are for debt consolidation calls solar energy … or the “accident claim department” that’s replaced the car warranty people …
Now since some of us are on Medicare plans the hell time of the year is from the 2nd week of October to dec 7th that’s when every company legit or not can call you about switching plans and I was answering calls from 5 am to 9 pm …Note if you do answer the phone and you hear a “bloop” like sound before anyone says hello its a sales call as that’s the connection signal …
You’d think so. But I’ve surprisingly never seen it. My guess is that people don’t pick up for them. Maybe because they assume it’s a scam. Or maybe because many people never liked answering polls to begin with but were too polite to say so.
For the former, I’d expect people to get an error. I know my texts tell me if they actually get delivered or not.
For the latter: to those it applies to (Gen Z and some Millennials), I suspect that isn’t an issue. If they’re not checking their phone, then they just don’t have access to it or are too busy. So calling wouldn’t do any better.
Interesting. All I get is stuff in the mail. Maybe once in a blue moon one of them calls me; and, if I happen to pick up, gets my standard “I don’t do this sort of the thing over the phone [hang up].”
Apparently it doesn’t work this way for everybody, as I’ve had people tell me they’d sent me texts who did think they’d gone through.
And I had somebody tell me that their system translates a text to a landline into some form they can either make sense of, or else at least tells them there was an attempt to text them. But mine doesn’t tell me anything; I get no idea that someone tried to text that number.
True for a lot of people. Not true for a lot of other people, me included.
There used to be fewer ways to get ahold of people; but everyone or almost everyone was actually using those ways. Now there are lots and lots of ways to get ahold of people – but there is no way that almost everyone is using. I’m not sure whether the net result is better communication or poorer communication; but it’s certainly a different set of problems.
Nope. You’ll never get an error if you text to a landline. Or, for that matter, to a mobile phone that doesn’t do texting. The text is sent, it just never arrives.
Used to be really annoying back when I still had a landline AND had a minimal mobile phone that didn’t text. No matter how many times I said MY PHONES DON’T DO TEXTING people still insisted on sending me texts. All the damn time. I’d get yelled at at work by one manager who insisted that I was lying about not getting her texts. And AT&T guy sent out to my new apartment was taken aback when I asked ro work ID. “But I texted you my picture!” That’s nice - my phone doesn’t do texts so I don’t have your picture. You’d think a phone company employee would know that but he didn’t. He tried sending me a few more texts while he was there getting my new apartment set up for DSL and finally had to admit that no, I would never get any texts at all on that phone. And the sender would never get an error message.
So… no. You’ll never get an error message and your recipient will never get your message.
Correct. I’ve had to correct people/offices that tried to text my landline: “Do a phone call/voicemail; there’s no texting on that number”, or if I have to give a cellphone number I tell them “I turn the phone on maybe once or twice a week, so if you text me I won’t get it any time soon; you need to call my landline.” I will of course keep the cellphone on and ready if I know I’ll be getting texts (e.g., serviceperson doesn’t call, only texts arrival time) but it’s sometimes hard to get the dedicated texters to understand. My phones of both types are for my convenience, not theirs.
Not correct - I just tried to text my landline in case I remembered wrong. I got a message saying " 123-456-7890 is a landline #. Reply Y to send all TXT messages to this number as voice messages for .25/msg + standard msg fee." It’s possible that this is specific to my cell carrier or my landline carrier but I know I’ve gotten it when I’ve tried to text other landlines as well.
I just texted my landline and got the same message. My provider is Verizon.
I’m guessing they’ve gotten more sophisticated in sorting ot the receiving devices.
Could be, in which case I’m glad to see that they have actually taken steps to fix that problem.
Although hitting the voice mail option there would be a dick move if it charges the recipient rather than the sender - not entirely clear about that. If I got a message like that I’d probably just dial the number and leave a v-mail on my own for free.
This appears to depend on where you are and possibly what particular landline service you’re using.
Please do not assume that other people are getting this notification, because a lot of them don’t. ETA: And you may only be getting it from people using certain services, and not from others; so because you didn’t get it please don’t assume that your message went through to a cell.
– I just texted my landline from my Verizon cell phone and all it says is the ordinary info that the text was sent. The landline of course is showing nothing whatsoever.
We subscribed to nomorobo, at the advice of our phone company. It’s free, and it screens out most spam phone calls after one ring. So when the phone rings, I wait for a second ring, and then wait for the phone to announce who is calling. Then I usually answer it, if it’s convenient to answer the phone. I, too, get calls from doctors offices and merchants and service people and delivery companies from numbers I don’t recognize.
I rarely check voicemail. Please don’t leave voice mail if you know me. If I don’t answer the phone, drop me a text or an email. Retrieving voicemail is a drag.
I get a “cannot deliver message to a non-mobile number” all the time. I drive a route to collect food donations every month, and I text the donors the night before to remind them. Out of 25-30 numbers I text, I get at least 2-3 “cannot deliver…” messages. I have assumed they are landlines. I can certainly call them and speak with the donor or leave a voicemail, I have many times.
I’m on the do not call list, and I’ve gotten zero calls about Medicare plans. Recycling bins full of mail about them, but no calls. I suspect that since they are dealing with government regulations, violating the list might go badly for them.
It’s free for landlines, I think there is a charge for mobile phones - but it’s been a while since I checked. Our landline announces calls also, which means we don’t even have to get up when one arrives, but we’ve found that 99% of them hang up when they get the voicemail message. Often quickly enough that we don’t have to erase the hangup.
I don’t get many on my cellphone, but when I do I found that answering and not saying anything causes the spammers to hang up. Real people will say something.
The volume of spam has gone down a lot since they made smaller telcos accurately transmit the calling number, even if what you see is not accurate.