How to Check Voicemail From a Landline Phone

Checking your voicemail from a landline phone is a useful trick to know. Your cell phone may unexpectedly run out of batteries or break at a time when you need to access your voicemail messages. Follow the simple steps in this article to check voicemail from a landline phone.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Touch-tone landline telephone

1. Make sure your cell phone is set up to allow voicemail to be checked from a landline phone. If your cell phone requires a special feature to be enabled, you will need to follow the steps in your instruction manual to ensure you can check the voicemail from another phone.

2. Call your cell phone from a landline phone. The landline phone you use must be a touch-tone phone, or you will not be able to enter the required pin number or password.

3. When your cell phone's voicemail picks up and the answering message starts to play, press the star key on your landline phone immediately. This will trigger an automated recording that will ask you to input your password or pin number.

4. Use the keypad on your landline phone to input the password or pin number you use to check your voicemail from your cell phone. When you have finished entering your password or pin number, press the pound key.

5. Listen to the instructions relayed by the automated message. They will tell you how many voicemail messages you have and give you options for checking them, deleting them, saving them or storing them as new messages. Every phone is slightly different, so listen carefully to the options and choose the one you want.

6. Hang up the landline phone when you are finished checking your voicemail messages.

Tips & Warnings

• Choose an easy-to-remember pin number or password to use in checking your voicemail messages.