With Live Voicemail, Apple's iOS 17 brings back your old answering machine. ... If we wanted to know who called us while we were away, we bought an answering machine to record the messages.

Thankfully, Live Voicemail coming in iOS 17 will introduce a new generation to the glory of The Machine. I say The Machine because that is what we called it. When you get home, you check The Machine.

Answering machines and voicemail inboxes have been around for decades, with seemingly very few changes or obvious updates. Apple’s iOS 17 introduces a simple change to a feature many millennials ...