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When you send a voice message on your iPhone, it won't be deleted before the recipient listens to it. While your voice message will disappear from your end after you listen to it, it'll still be in the conversation until your friend reads it. This How.com.vn article discusses why messages disappear, how to prevent voice messages from disappearing quickly, and how to recover them if they are lost.
Things You Should Know
- iPhone voice messages will not disappear before being listened to.
- By default, audio messages are deleted after 2 minutes of being listened to.
- You can change the default deletion time in Settings > Messages > Expire.
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Changing Deletion Time
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Open your iPhone or iPad's Settings. By default, voice messages will disappear automatically 2 minutes after they're read. If you don't want these messages to disappear on your end, you can change the deletion time to "Never."- If your iPhone has limited space, this isn't the best option, as saving many voice messages will use a lot of space.
Tap Messages. You may need to scroll down to find the option next to a green and white chat bubble.Advertisement
Scroll down and tap Expire. It's under the "Audio Messages" header.- You'll see your current setting here. By default, this is set to "After 2 Minutes." That means a listened-to audio message will disappear after 2 minutes, but an un-listened-to audio message will never automatically disappear.
Tap Never. Changing this setting allows you to keep all your audio messages without tapping "Keep" under the message.[1]- Depending on your iPhone model, you may not see Never here—instead, you'll see After 1 year.
- You can also tap Keep under the voice message in Messages to save it.
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