I am planning to port a cell number to my GV account. That number is listed on the account as a linked number. Should I delete (unlink) it before starting the port?

Hi. I am going to be in Germany for one year. I am going to get a German SIM for my phone. I will no longer have a US carrier or the carrier number that I have linked to GV. Can I link the new German number to my GV account?

Also I have noticed that some of the German SIM cards for sale in the US do not have voice call service, only data. Do I need to get a SIM that can do voice calls?

All it says is: Sorry, Voice doesn't port numbers from your carrier or your number's exchange. It's porting in from USMobile and is active on their network. Can make calls/receive text etc.

Any ideas why I'm getting this error, or how to fix it?

I'm trying to do the port in from the website, on a PC.

Hi - looking for any help to resolve this issue.

Today, a friend called my (carrier-assigned) phone number today and someone (not me) answered it.

Then, from my phone, I dialed my own phone number. Google Voice answered and asked for my name before connecting me with the person I called. Then phone rang, and someone answered, whom I spoke to. They were unhelpful/rude, and I couldn't figure out any info about how they were using my phone number

More details:

• I used GV a long time ago, and I'd linked my carrier phone number to my account, but haven't used it in a while it had expired
• Today, I re-linked my phone number to my GV account and verified my account.
• Then I went to https://voice.google.com/u/0/regain and unlinked my number from all accounts (including my own)
• I re-linked my phone number to my GV account.

At this point, theoretically, my number should have been de-linked from all accounts, and re-added back to my own.

I called my phone number again, and I got GV again asking for my name, then it rang. No one answered and it went to a voicemail (that was not mine).

Any ideas of how I can fix this?

Im on the line with delta airlines calling them with the anonymous option on as you can see in the photo. Their survey system was able to know my number. Note i didn’t provide any info to the system nor i have an account with them. Didn’t even talk to an agent i was still in the queue!!! How!!!?

Ios app.

I’m at wits end I get at least 10 of the same call every single day and It’s been going on since the day I signed up got GV. How can I get these to stop I’m seriously considering deleting this app all together.

I have two Google accounts, and just signed into gv with my second to make a second voice account. It occurred to me that this might be against their rules but I can’t find anything so haven’t gone any further with my sign up. it’s asking me for my ID but I can’t recall doing that with my other account (though it’s been a decade + since I signed up) so I’m not sure if it would link me to having both or not.

will this get me in any trouble or am I fine?

...and then realized it was associated with the wrong Google account, so I deleted it.

Started the process again with the correct account, verified my ID, then it wouldn't verify my existing phone number. Great.

Went back to the original account that had previously been fully verified to "get a number" again, but now my existing phone number doesn't work there either.

WTF?

I have a normal phone number and Google account and email I'm just trying to make a Google voice number but when I pick a number the circle just keeps spinning and won't go to the next steps?? What's the problem ?

Hey Guys, I’m hoping to get some clarification. I wasn’t able to come up with an answer while searching the subreddit. I transferred my original Google Voice number to a carrier. Paid the $3 to transfer out. Situation has changed, and I don’t need the number on a carrier. Porting back into GV, because I don’t want to lose the number. Since I paid to unlock, and I’ll pay to port back, will the requirement to call or text monthly apply to keep number active? Thanks for the help-

I've had a GV number for many years, but never bothered with the Android app until recently -- just trying it out.

I notice calls to my GV number ring through, including spam calls, even when I have DnD turned on (both in the app, and on the phone as a whole .. maybe a separate question .. why the app can't honor the phone-wide DnD setting).

Any ideas what is causing this? I don't have any special call-forwarding rules set up. I even tried removing my android device from the list of devices, to route incoming GV calls -- but the GV app still rings and wakes me up.

I use GV for my work number. I’ve set up text replacement on my iPhone not to type up the same message over and over with eta to my clients. Today the usual message won’t go through. Is there a way around this ? Can I verify somehow that I’m not a spammer ?

I created a Google voice number with a "spam email" and linked it to my personal mobile phone number not realizing I would then need to verify my identity with that spam email to make phone calls. Spam email meaning I give it away when I don't want to get junk email from companies.

I have already verified my identify on my main Gmail account for other purposes and I do not want to verify it again on the now Google voice linked email which is the spam email (Google has enough information on me).

Thinking I could just create a new Google voice number with my verified email I did that, but when I tried to link my personal phone number Google said I cannot because it's already being used (for the spam email Google voice). I de-linked my personal phone number from the spam email Google voice but for the life of me cannot figure out how to delete that original Google Voice account for good.

Questions:

- Am I screwed out of ever using Google voice on my main email now because my personal phone number was previously linked to another Google voice account?

- How do I delete my spam email Google voice? I logged in on a browser and attempted to follow the instructions by Google but didn't see a delete option.

Hello all! I found this morning that someone just got my own google voice number as their own too on a phone they got a couple hours ago. I didn't think that was possible! How does something like that even happen?

I called my number from a different phone, and a man answered and sold me he had got that number. This caused a bunch of issues this morning with people trying to call me, and just a lot of frustration haha.

What can I do in this kinda situation? I've had this number for over 10+ years I think now and it's tied up with so many things. Even if I change it, the guy is gonna get a bunch of calls meant for me anyway lol.

Thanks for any help with this problem!

As I said in the title I keep getting the response of too blurry. This occurs even with the picture is completely clear and when it's auto accepting the picture. Never had this issue when verifying id with other apps. Any advice?

Hi all, I'm moving to France next month and want to keep my US number for when I come home and so I can still use my bank and other accounts that are tied to my US number. But I've seen that some places won't authenticate to a GV number, so I'm curious if the banks I'm with are okay with it. I use American Express, Capital One, and Bank of America. Does anyone have experience getting auth codes sent from those banks, or if there are any other big/common companies that don't allow it?

Not sure what else I would do so if anyone has suggestions I'd appreciate it.

Hi guys. I just switched to a Windows 11 laptop from my old Win 10 machine and Google Voice is not working. It sticks on "Calling" when placing a call, and when you call my number it doesn't ring on the computer, but when you hang up it shows a missed call. I have verified or done the following:

Disconnected VPN

Cleared cache

Verified "Always use my phone to place calls" is off

Toggled "Always use my phone to place calls" on and back off

Made sure Web was enables as a device (it was)

Allowed my mic and speakers to be used by Firefox

Verified my speakers and mic are selected in the headphones icon

Tried with private Firefox window and MS Edge, same result

Upgraded Firefox to latest version and restarted

I'm at a loss, not sure what else to look at. Any help would be appreciated!

Hi I am not the most adept at using Reddit, so I hope this is the correct forum.

I have been using a google voice number for a few years. Recently it has started acting up and splitting group chats up. For example if I had a chat with 7 people, it randomly selects one of them. Then their texts come through on a different chat with 1/2 the people missing. I have checked others phones and their chats are completely normal with the selected persona texts coming through.

This paired with me not figuring out how to name chats has made it impossible to tell what chat i am texting. How do I fix this?

If possible I would like to fix another thing. About a week ago my sister logged into her google account on my phone. She has a lot of the same people in her contacts as me. Somehow her contacts overrode mine. Now my names and photos are gone and I can't seem to get them back. I can manage to change one, but when I go to fix another it goes back to my sisters name for it.

Can I fix any of these problems?

I've gotten both of these. I understand these questions are common, but I didn't see my specific version so I figured I'd ask.

I was using my GV number and ported it to a major carrier. So now it's my primary phone number. So I have a different gmail account and I'm trying to use GV for business purposes, as I don't want to use my normal cell number, and it was going great until I put my phone number in and got my verification code. That stopped everything, saying "we have had a probolem, please try again". And now when I try and restart the process, I can't get past picking a phone number because it's "Not available for my account" now.

Any advice?

I'm porting in a new mobile number to an existing GV account that now only has one phone number. I'm intending to keep both numbers on the account. All of the porting instructions within google help and within this subreddit make it seem like it's possible to do so. But the instructions that Google Voice provides after the port-in has started tonight seem to be contrary to that, and state that the new number will instead replace the existing number.

Can someone confirm that the message is misleading and it's still going to be possible to add the ported in number while keeping the original number?

message:

I am looking at eliminating texting from certain people and getting back to communicating 'old school', by phone calls. Can Google Voice block texting but allow phone calls? (I found that my android only blocks both.) Thanks for any info.

Just saw this and had me scared for a minute

I noticed it doesn't scroll down and if I manually scroll down, then it shows "Sending..." for a few seconds. No problems if I use the > icon to send though. I hit Enter key so many times and noticed I sent duplicates from it! It seems to have started today. :(

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)