Resetting Your iPhone Voicemail Password

Problem: Your iPhone keeps asking you to enter your voicemail password, but you don't remember it.

Solution: Reset your password using AT&T's automated system with the instructions below.

From AT&T's website...

Reset voicemail password with AT&T's automated system

Call 611 from your iPhone,
Press 1 to confirm your phone number,
Press 5 to go to voice mail help,
Press 1 to reset your password,
Enter the billing zip code for the account.

AT&T will send you a text message with a temporary password
Remember or copy the temporary password
Go to Settings > Phone > Change Voicemail Password
Change your password

Preventing Safari from Opening with Previously Opened Pages

Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) has a new feature that automatically loads web pages that were open when you last quit Safari. This can be useful in some situations, but it can also be very annoying at times.

To prevent Safari from starting up with the previously opened web pages, type the following in a window of the Terminal app...

defaults write com.apple.Safari ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES

To turn the feature back on, type


defaults write com.apple.Safari ApplePersistenceIgnoreState NO