How to turn off voicemail on amaysim (Australia)

1. Dial 321 from your amaysim service and follow the prompts.

Choose Voicemail → Deactivate (or toggle it in the amaysim app).

Dial *#61# and press call. Your network replies with what your number currently does when you don't answer. If voicemail is off and nothing else has taken its place, it should tell you no forwarding is set for unanswered calls.

The real test is better: get someone to ring you, let it ring right out, and don't touch the phone. If it rings out and stops — no greeting, no “leave a message”, no text arriving to say someone called — you're done.

Still getting voicemail? ##004# clears no-answer diversions and is the first thing to try.

1. Dial 321 from your amaysim service and follow the prompts.

Choose Voicemail → Activate.

Newer handsets have started answering calls themselves. Google's Take a Message on recent Pixels picks up calls you don't answer and transcribes them; Apple's Call Screening does something similar on recent iPhones. They're handy, but they are another thing that answers before your phone finishes ringing out.

If you've switched voicemail off at amaysim and calls still aren't ringing right through, check your phone's own call settings — these features can arrive in a software update without you turning them on.

Voicemail made sense when the alternative was nothing. Now it mostly loses you work: most people who reach a tradie's voicemail hang up and ring the next name on the list rather than leave a message.

Switching it off is also the first step if you want a missed call to do something useful instead — like texting the caller back automatically. Voicemail and a missed-call text-back both trigger on exactly the same thing (you didn't answer), so whichever one the network reaches first wins. That's why it has to go.

Does this work on prepaid? Yes — and the plan is almost never the problem.