📢 Lifesaving Tip: Change Your Voicemail in an Emergency

Jun 25, 2025

If you’re ever lost while hiking, stranded with car trouble, or low on battery or signal, update your voicemail message with your:

  • 📍 Location (landmarks, trail name, highway mile marker, etc.)

  • 🕒 Time & date

  • 🚨 Situation (lost, injured, out of gas, etc.)

  • 📝 Instructions (staying put, walking toward help, etc.)

Even if your phone dies or loses service, anyone calling you will hear the voicemail and know how to help.

⚠️ It could save your life—know how to do it now:


📱 How to Change Your Voicemail

On iPhone:

  1. Open the Phone app.

  2. Tap the Voicemail tab (bottom right).

  3. Tap Greeting (top left).

  4. Select Custom, then tap Record.

  5. Say your emergency message clearly.

  6. Tap Stop, then Save.

On Android:

(Note: Steps may vary slightly depending on your phone model or carrier)

  1. Open the Phone app.

  2. Tap the three dots (top right) and go to Settings.

  3. Tap Voicemail > Voicemail greeting.

  4. Tap Record or Change greeting.

  5. Record your emergency message.

  6. Tap Save.

🗣️ Spread the word. It could save a life.
 

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