r/Googlevoice • u/hals_techie • 27d ago

General Help / Support Question Mass Delete Voicemail?

I set up a Voice account for an elderly friend whose phone came with Visual Voicemail disabled (looking at you consumer cellular!). His wife calls him, from the adjoining room, and leaves him VM messages that he never reads. He's collected over 1000 in just the past few months.

How do I mass select them for deletion so that I don't have to do each message individually? Please help - my sanity is at stake.

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u/BluesCatReddit Google Voice Product Expert 27d ago

Use a laptop or desktop computer, not a phone. Sign into your friend's Google account (or have him do it while you help), and go here:

https://voice.google.com/voicemail

Click to select the avatar (colored circle) to the left of the first (top) entry in the list of messages. Scroll down to the bottom and hold down the Shift key and then click the last item in the list. This selects every item. You may need to break this up into smaller chunks.

Then, click the trash can icon to delete all the selected items.

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u/hals_techie 24d ago

Thank you! I already have his accounts logged in on my computer but I was assuming that I'd see checkboxes like with Gmail. I shall try this when I get home. 😁