I love the idea of Google Voice. I’ve been wanting to use it for a while but didn’t want to because I could not use Google Voice voicemail with my iPhone.

Here is what I mean… If you call my Google Voice number, it goes to my cell then to Google Voice if unanswered, busy or iPhone is off. If you called my phone it would not go to Google Voice Voicemail. So, if you don’t know my Google Voice number you will not get my Google Voice voicemail. This is probably just me, but i want all of my voicemails in one place, not here and there and there and here.

So, here is the solution I found to forward my iPhone to Google Voice:

Open the Phone app on your iPhone and go to the Keypad, type in *004*your_google_voice_number# then press call (see below for what it looked like when I did it):

google voice voicemail on iphone

Your iPhone will then show this screen while the settings are changed so that Google Voice will be your new voicemail:

google voice voicemail on iphone

Once the setting are completed your iPhone will display:

google voice voicemail on iphone

This changes it so that all of your missed calls (unanswered, ignored or phone off) will go to Google Voice voice mail. Some other tutorials have you do it 3 times, one for each type of missed call, but I found this to be the easiest way.

Now, if for some reason you want to go back to the default visual voice mail on your iPhone or stop your iPhone from forwarding to Google Voice, just go back into the Phone apps Keypad and type in ##004# and press call.