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 Telephone app as a substitute. The change began rolling out on Tuesday and might be absolutely rolled out by July 2nd, the Fi crew says in a support forum post.
In August, Google plans to section out voicemail within the iOS Google Fi app. “When you’ve got voicemails you need to maintain, you will need to obtain them utilizing Google Takeout earlier than August thirteenth,” the crew says in its submit. “After this date, they’ll now not be out there within the Google Fi app.”
For those who use Google Fi and have an iPhone, you might have seen some voicemails present up within the iOS Telephone app earlier than this announcement. However that has solely occurred beneath a selected set of circumstances. If a consumer had iOS’s Reside Voicemail function turned on, your cellphone was turned on, and also you had been inside Google Fi’s service space when getting a voicemail, that voicemail could be delivered to the iPhone’s Telephone 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 Telephone app.
Google teased in April that this modification was within the works. At the moment, Google additionally introduced a extra inexpensive Google Fi Limitless Necessities plan that prices $35 per thirty days.