The Voice Memos app included with your iPhone is a convenient way to record quick voice messages, or anything else you can hear. Voice memos normally stay on your iPhone, but you can move them to your computer through the Share feature or via iTunes.
Option One: Send Individual Voice Memos to Your Computer
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The Share feature allows you to send individual voice memos from the Voice Memos app to other services. For example, you could take a voice memo and share it to the Mail app to email the voice memo to yourself or someone else.
You could also share the voice memo to a service like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Microsoft OneDrive installed on your phone. Or, if you have a Mac, the Share feature will also let you use AirDrop to send the voice memo file directly from your iPhone to your Mac.
To use this Share feature, open the Voice Memos app, tap the memo you want to share, and tap the Share button to get started. This button looks like a box with an up arrow coming out of it.
Select the service you want to share to—for example, select Mail to email the voice memo to yourself. If you email the memo to your own email address, you can open your email on your PC and Mac and download the file.
Scroll to the right and tap “More” to view additional services you can enable. To use a service, its app must be installed on your phone. For example, to use Dropbox, you must have the Dropbox app on your iPhone.
Repeat this process for each voice memo you want to share.
Option Two: Synchronize All Voice Memos With Your Computer via iTunes
If you use voice memos frequently and want to move multiple voice memos at once to your PC or Mac, you can use iTunes to automatically synchronize new voice memos to your computer. On a Windows PC, you’ll need to download and install iTunes to do this. iTunes comes included on Macs.
Connect your iPhone to your PC or Mac using the included USB cable. This is the same cable you use to charge your iPhone.
Locate your iPhone in the left pane of iTunes. Right-click it and select “Sync” on Windows. On a Mac, hold down the Command key and click it instead.
If you haven’t previously connected your iPhone to iTunes on that computer, you’ll have to unlock your iPhone and tap “Trust” to trust the computer. Follow the instructions in iTunes.
iTunes will inform you that there are new voice memos and ask if you want to copy them to your PC. Click “Copy Voice Memos” to continue.
In the future, you can reconnect your iPhone to your computer, synchronize in iTunes, and synchronize with your iPhone to copy any new voice memos to your PC or Mac.
These voice memos are stored as audio file on your computer.
On Windows, navigate to
C:UsersNAMEMusiciTunesiTunes MediaVoice Memos
in File Explorer.On macOS, head to
/Users/NAME/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Voice Memos
in Finder.You’ll find all your voice memos here, named according to the date and time when they were recorded. They’re in .m4a, or MP4 audio, format. These files can be opened in iTunes, Windows 10’s Music app, VLC, and many other common media players.
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Voice Memos uses your device's built-in microphone to record. For a higher-quality stereo recording, use an external stereo microphone.
How to record a voice memo
- Open the Voice Memos app or ask Siri to open it.
- To record, tap or click . To stop, tap . On your iPad or Mac1, tap or click .
- When you tap , your memo is saved automatically with your current location as the title.2 On your iPad or Mac, click Done when you're finished recording.
All your memos are available on every device that's signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID. Just turn on Voice Memos in the iCloud settings of each device.
After you record a voice memo, you can edit it.
Edit a voice memo
After you record a voice memo, it's easy to replace a section, trim the recording, or delete part of it.
How to replace part of a voice memo
- Tap the memo that you want to edit. Tap , then tap Edit Recording. On your iPad or Mac, select the memo, then tap or click Edit.
- Swipe the waveform left or right until the blue playhead is positioned at the beginning of the part that you want to replace. On your Mac, position the blue playhead on the recording overview at the bottom of the app to select a starting place.
- Tap Replace to rerecord over the existing memo.
- Tap when you finish recording.
- Tap Done to save.
How to trim from the beginning or end of a memo
- Tap the memo that you want to trim. Tap , then tap Edit Recording. On your iPad or Mac, select the memo, then click Edit.
- Tap . Yellow handles with arrows appear on each end of the memo in the lower recording graph.
- To trim from the beginning, drag the yellow arrow on the left to where you want the memo to begin. To trim from the end, drag the yellow arrow on the right to where you want the memo to end.
- Tap Trim.
- Tap Save. If you're finished editing the memo, tap Done.
How to delete part of a memo
- Tap the memo that you want to trim. Tap , then tap Edit Recording. On your iPad or Mac, select the memo, then click Edit.
- Tap . Yellow handles with arrows appear on each end of the memo in the lower recording graph.
- Drag the left and right yellow arrows so that they surround the part of the memo that you want to delete.
- Tap Delete.
- Tap Save. If you're finished editing the memo, tap Done.
Share a voice memo
Want to share your voice memo with a friend or save it to a second location? Tap a memo in the list, tap , then tap Share. On your iPad or Mac, select a memo, then tap or click .
Choose a way to share, such as Messages or a social media app. Or save your memo to another location with an option like iCloud Drive or Mail.
How to delete a voice memo
- Tap or click to select the memo that you want to delete.
- Tap . On your Mac, press the Delete key or choose Edit > Delete. The memo is moved to the Recently Deleted folder.
Voice memos stay in the Recently Deleted folder for 30 days and then are deleted permanently. You can recover a voice memo if it's still in the Recently Deleted folder:
- In Voice Memos, tap or click Recently Deleted.
- Tap or click the memo that you want to recover.
- Tap or click Recover, then tap or click Recover Recording.
1. Voice Memos is a built-in app in macOS Mojave.
2. You can turn location-based naming on or off in Settings > Voice Memos. On your Mac, choose Voice Memos > Preferences.
Sometimes you have one of those eureka! moments and need to jot down your great idea. If you don’t have a pen and paper handy, fear not- you can use most iPod models to record voice memos without breaking your train of thought.
Just dictate what you want to remember, and you can play it back on the iPod, or sync the voice memo to iTunes to store it or listen to on your Mac. Here’s how you can make audio notes to save your precious, fleeting thoughts.
Before you get started, it’s important to note that not all iPod models support voice memos. Current models of the iPhone, iPod classic, iPod nano, and iPod touch offer this feature, but the iPod shuffle and the iPad don’t. (There are some third-party apps that provide voice recording for the iPad, however.) Apple has a support document that specifies which models offer the feature. For most models, you’ll need an external mic, or you can use Apple’s earbuds that include a mic. But the 5th generation iPod nano includes a built-in mic, as does, of course, the iPhone.
Touch devices
Voice memos are available on all touch devices, with the exception of the first generation iPod touch and the iPad. You record them using the Voice Memos app, whose icon is a microphone. Make sure you have a mic connected (for the iPod touch) and launch this app. You’ll see an old-fashioned microphone, a VU (level) meter, and two buttons.
Tap the red record button at the bottom left of the window, and start talking. Make sure to keep the level meter needle out of the red section to prevent distortion. Tap the pause button (the record button turns into it, two vertical red stripes, when you’re recording) to pause, or the black stop button to finish. Unlike on the iPod nano and classic, there’s no timer. You can switch to other apps while recording voice memos; just press the Home button and launch another app. You can therefore record comments on e-mails, articles you read on the Web, and more.
After you’ve finished, tap the button at the bottom right of the app, with three horizontal lines. This takes you to the Voice Memos section of the iPod or iPhone, which displays the voice memos you’ve recorded with date, time, and length. You can play them back, delete them, and even trim them. You can also e-mail a voice memo (or send it via MMS if you’re using an iPhone), if the file’s not too large, by tapping the blue circle to the right of a voice memo then tapping Share.
[Note that if Voice Memos isn’t working properly on your iPod touch, you may need to reset your iPod by pressing and holding the home and power buttons until the device reboots; there seems to be a bug in iOS 4 with Voice Memos on the touch.]
Non-touch devices
For non-touch devices that require an external mic, just connect one and a Voice Memos item will display at the top level of the menus. (With the 5th generation nano, this will be Extras > Voice Memos.) Select this and press the center button, then choose Start Recording. (The iPod classic will let you choose from two levels of quality: High or Low.) You’ll see a screen showing a microphone with a timer and a level meter (for the iPod nano), or just a microphone and timer (for the classic). Try and keep the level in the green area, so your voice memo won’t be distorted. You can watch the time go by so you have an idea of how long you’ve been recording, and you can press the center button to create chapter marks to make it easy to find individual pearls of wisdom later.
When you’ve finished, press the Play/Pause button, then choose Stop And Save. You can pause by pressing this button then choosing Resume, or you can delete the voice memo from this menu as well if you decide you don’t want to keep it.
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Voice memos will now show up under Voice Memos > Recordings, and you can listen to your memos or delete them. You can also label them, by choosing a voice memo then Label, and then Podcast, Interview, Lecture, Idea, Meeting, or Memo.
Syncing voice memos to iTunes
When your iPod or iPhone contains voice memos, it will automatically sync them to iTunes the next time you connect it to your Mac. These items will show up in a Voice Memos playlist in the iTunes sidebar, and will be marked with a date and time. After syncing, they no longer show up in the Voice Memos section of the iPod, but will be in the iPod’s Voice Memos playlist. You can listen to these voice memos with iTunes, share the files with others, or use audio editing software to trim them.
Voice memos are recorded in different formats according to the type of device you have. I found that my 4th generation iPod nano records in Apple Lossless format, even though Apple says that voice memos are recorded in WAV (an uncompressed format). My current generation iPod classic does record in WAV, but offers two quality levels, both in mono: the first at about half the size of a normal WAV file, and the second at one-quarter the size. In any case, voice memos can take up a lot of space. The Apple Lossless files are about 2.4MB per minute; the WAV files about 5.2MB and 2.7MB, respectively.
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Voice Memo is a great way to use your iPod to record lectures or meetings—but just make sure you have enough free space, since at the largest file size, you’ll need about 300MB per hour.
[Senior contributor Kirk McElhearn writes about more than just Macs on his blog Kirkville.]