Strange iPhone Icons – Phone 1+, Voicemail 1+, Voicemail (-1)
November 15th, 2007 | Posted by in iPhone Tips & Tricks | Tech/Web
I’m not actually worried about this, because I’m guessing that when I restart my iPhone the problem will be solved, but I just got a voicemail and the voicemail button, where the icon usually shows up that displays the number of voicemail messages that you have, it now say shows a 1+. The wierd thing about this is that up above on the top menu, between the greeting and speaker button, it reads Voicemail (-1).
Did something on my iPhone get tweaked or fried? Also, now when I go to the home screen the phone icon displays a 1+ as well. Obviously, the 1+ on the phone icon is coming from the voicemail icon, but what does the plus mean? Too many voicemails stored? Time to delete some? Wouldn’t it be better to display a friendly popup message or something telling me to delete some old voicemails? I think that’d make more sense.
Here’s a screenshot of the homescreen with the phone and the 1+ icon:
Here’s a screenshot of my voicemail screen that displays the Voicemail (-1) and the Voicemail 1+:
Is there a limit to the amount of voicemail that can be stored on the iPhone? Would that be causing this problem?
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This just happened to my phone for the 1st time about 5 minutes ago. I deleted almost all of my voicemails & it’s still there… What does it mean?!
Restarting your phone removes the weird icon. I probably should have tried that first… Oops!
Haha… I did the same thing! I was too shocked by the (-1) to even think about restarting my phone.
Oh well, it was time to clean out my voicemailbox anyways!!!
That’s odd. I’ve never had that happen to me (yet). But, on the other hand, I don’t get any voicemails a lot either. Thanks for the tip in the future, though.
I have never had that problem either. Since I’m always on the goes I’m using the EDGE network instead of Wifi at school so I miss a few calls and therefore I get a lot of voicemails and I have never had that problem. Has anyone who had that problem hack their phone?
So strange!! I got the 1+ icon and it said 1- on the voicemail box heading so I have emptied out all my messages, even the deleted ones, and it still says 1+ even with no messages in the box! And I just realized that I’ve created one big run-on sentence…
Must just be a glitch in the iPhone software. Hopefully the iPhone 2.0 firmware update will fix all these small problems.
I had a similar problem on my 3G iPhone with the 2.2 firmware. It would show (1)/+1 everywhere even after I deleted all my voicemails. So I rebooted the iPhone and they went away. Weird.
The same thing happened to my iPhone when there showed 1 message when there were no voicemails. Powered off and on and voilà – the annoying 1 sign was gone. Thanks for the tip!