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Yap Voicemail
Yap Voicemail ended on October 20, 2011. Its original plan and subsequent firsthand reporting agree on that service-end day.
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An iPhone and Android voicemail app that automatically transcribed incoming messages with speech recognition, making them searchable and allowing replies or forwarding by email and text.
- Operator at shutdown
- Yap Inc. Company source
- Discontinued
- 20 Oct 2011Closure source
How it ended
Yap Voicemail ended on October 20, 2011. Its original plan and subsequent firsthand reporting agree on that service-end day.
Yap original discontinuation FAQ and AllThingsD completed-closure reporting ↗ · Checked 9 Oct 2026
Sources and verification
- Shutdown
- October 20, 2011 is the actual service-discontinuation day: the original FAQ specifies that day, and AllThingsD’s November 9 report, which independently confirmed the company transaction and cites original user-notification reporting, explicitly reports that Yap Voicemail was discontinued on October 20. The original archived FAQ retains future tense even in a later capture; passage of its planned deadline alone is not treated as completed closure. The original announcement day, cutoff hour and time zone remain unknown. Scope is the complete independently named iPhone/Android Yap Voicemail application and service, not Yap’s wider Speech Cloud, carrier integrations or all company technology. The FAQ says callers would receive an unavailable-voicemail recording and users needed to restore their carrier voicemail. The separate company acquisition is not the closure evidence. Original pages identify Yap Inc. and list its North American headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina; no coordinates are inferred. Closure source
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- Verified 9 Oct 2026
- AI functionality
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- Launch
- The original July 2011 product page confirms iPhone and Android availability. The precise first-launch day of the complete Yap Voicemail product is not established here.
- Location
- United States · Charlotte, North Carolina. The original Yap Contact Us page labels its Charlotte, North Carolina address as North American Headquarters. Coordinates are not established. Location source