How to turn off answering machine?

[Jay-moon]

Does anybody know how to turn off the answering machine so I do not get any messages from anybody?

Thankyou

[dust2dust · Accepted solution]

The voicemail system has an option called Extended Absence. You set a greeting and then it has an option to not take recordings. That way the caller doesn't get what seems to be an error on the call. You can say that you're not taking messages or to contact you somehow else and then it simply hangs up.

[softech]

@Jay-moon  answering machine?  You meant voicemail?

technically there is no way to disable it.

But we have workarounds:

To "disable" voicemail,   dial: *004*8080000000# on your phone
Then all calls will ring forever or get a fast busy tone instead of forwarded to the voicemail.

To reset it back to defaults, dial ##004#