How To: Import A Custom Voicemail Greeting To Your iPhone

A few years ago I made a custom voicemail greeting .mp3 file that I always wanted to import to my iPhone but never found a way to do it. Well today I discovered a slightly complicated way and made a step by step tutorial just for you! The first couple steps are pretty simple but the last step can get be tricky so just make sure you follow along and you should be fine. Step 1: Convert your sound file to adaptive mult-rate (.amr)

• Go to media convert in your web browser. This is a free media converting site that requires no software downloads.
• Select chose file and upload your desired audio file for the voicemail greeting.
• Change the input format to the same format as your uploaded sound file and the output format to adaptive multi-rate
• Under advanced settings, change the bitrate to 12.2 kbps
• Hit the I accept the terms button and your audio file will start converting
• Once conversion is complete, upload the file to your hard drive. We will use it in a later step.

Step 2: Record a voicemail greeting

• On your iPhone, launch your voicemail, tap greeting and record a custom greeting for a few seconds then tap stop. Do not hit save yet as we will be navigating to the voicemail file and replacing it first.

Step 3: Browse your iPhones files and replace the voicemail file with your audio file

• Using iFuntastic or SFTP, navigate to thru your iPhones files to /var/root/Library/Voicemail or sometimes it will be in var/mobile/Library/Voicemail depending on your iPhones setup. There is a file in there called "greeting.amr" this is the voice recording you just made.
• Delete the "greeting.amr" file and replace it with the .amr file you created earlier. Rename this file to "greeting.amr"
• Tap save on your iPhone and you should be set! You may also want to tap play on your iPhone to verify that is the right file and then tap save.

Your iPhone now has a custom imported voicemail greeting! Pretty cool huh? If you have a preference on what How-Tos you would like us to write about, please let us know in the comments!

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