How to disable voice mail update notifications

[kevinTrusheim]

1. Slide top bar down with all the notifications.

2. Press/hold Verizon voice mail notification.

3. Force stop...then slide down and DESTOY I mean....disable app.

All the best!

[OregonDuckGuy]

Thanks but there is no "disable app" available as you mentioned. 

[kevinTrusheim]

Yes...force stop is the only action you can take.

I did notice it comes back...I can not believe Verizon makes you choose this application and no chance to disable.

[nicholasbranson]

Try going into application manager and instead of clearing data on the voicemail app, clear data on the phone app.

[kevinTrusheim]

Ok...this has been a ongoing process.

1.  Samsung Galaxy S5 users....I activated or (subscribed) to visual voice mail, then unsubscribed. 

     This knocked off the Subscribe Notification from keep popping up. 

2.  Here is the kicker...visual voice mail has a $2.99 a month charge.  With this new phone ( I don't know about other

     new phones) it is a free service from Verizon.  Verizon needs to get up to date with their service.

[SuzyQ]

The way "they" (Verizon) named the plans is causing confusion -

Basic Voicemail - free, on basic phones and some smartphones

Visual Voicemail - $2.99/month, for basic and some smartphones

Basic Visual Voicemail - free, on some smartphones (4G?  but not all, LTE capable? Android 4.4.4 or higher?)

Premium Visual Voicemail - $2.99/month

There is a chart, noted in another thread on this topic that I don't have handy atm.  It shows all these flavors and what comes with each, but it doesn't specify which phones have which options available.

[tikibar1]

I think the phones that received the update to Basic Visual Voice Mail (along with a 30-day trial of Premium Visual Voice Mail) are the ones that recently received updates to allow VoLTE calling (Advanced Calling 1.0, Advanced Calling 1.0 FAQs | Verizon Wireless).  The chart showing the differences among the voice mail systems can be found here:  Voice Mail Comparisons | Verizon Wireless).

[tikibar1]

These are the phones currently compatible with Advanced Calling 1.0:

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?&item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneOverviewByDevic...

[unusualj]

Hopefully everyone sees this:

After 2 weeks of notifications alerting me to update my voice mail I figured it out. When I first set it up I was given a 4 digit pin to give to a Verizon CSR. When I told the rep on the phone that day he had no clue what the pin was for. Turns out it was important. So, after calling and having my visual voice mail blocked (which didn't work and instead barred me from ALL voicemail...) and calling two more CSRs I was able to talk to ONE Verizon employee who knew what was going on because she herself dealt with it.

My advice is to call, have them reset the voicemail completely and you will have to clear data from the Voicemail app and reset your phone a couple times so call from another phone. Now I have a month trial of premium visual voicemail and that ridiculous notification is gone.

[pilotpowell85]

Where did you get the pin? I just got my s5 today and I'm already ready to throw it out the window because of that notification!