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Need to record a conversation, speech, or note? Here's how to use the Voice Memos app for iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS devices.

With Apple's Voice Memos app, you've long been able to create voice memos on your iPhone to record conversations, dictation, and other audio notes. With iOS 12, Voice Memos segued to the iPad, and with iOS 13 and watchOS 6, the app is nestled on the Apple Watch.

Creating a voice memo seems simple enough; just tap the record button, right? There's more to it than that. You can name and save your recordings, edit an audio file, share it via email, save it to an online service, and more.

With iOS 13 and iPadOS 13.1, the app adds more accessible actions to copy and save your recordings to the Files app and Dropbox. The overall process for creating voice memos is similar on an iPhone and iPad, but some steps and tools are different, so we'll cover each device separately, concluding with the Apple Watch.

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The iPhone includes a Voice Memos app that allows anyone to quickly record their voice, a speech, something nearby, or any other ambient audio from the devices built-in microphone. The resulting audio quality is quite good, and going further, you can save and share the recorded sound with another iPhone, Mac, Windows PC, Android user, or nearly anything else, as it arrives as a universally compatible audio file.

Though the iPhone microphone will pick up audio from a distant, for the best results you’ll want to have the recorded subject to be fairly near the iPhone itself. Another option is to use the bundled headphones that come with iPhone, which also include a microphone, and make recording your own voice easy and sound great. The earbud trick is particularly helpful for

How to Record Voice & Audio on iPhone with Voice Memos

The Voice Memos app is often overlooked, but it offers by far the simplest way to record audio from the iPhone microphone, here’s how it works:

Open the “Voice Memos” app located on the iPhone

Tap the red record button to start recording the voice or audio, when finished tap again on the same button to stop recording

When satisfied with the recording, tap on “Done”

Save the voice recording and give it a name

Now the voice recording has been saved to the iPhone, you can play it back, record over it, edit it or trim them down to shorter length, or trash it if desired.

Another option is to share the recorded voice or audio capture, which we’ll cover next.

You can share saved voice recordings from the iPhone to anyone else through messages or email, here’s how:

Back in the Voice Memos app on iPhone, tap to select on the voice recording you want to share
Tap the sharing button, it looks like a box with an arrow flying out of the top

Choose the method which you want to share the voice recording with; Message, Mail, Add to Notes, or a third party app of your choice

The shared voice recording arrives as a .m4a file, which means it’s compatible with nearly any audio player on any modern operating system. Additionally, m4a files are basically ringtone files that are waiting to be renamed, meaning you can convert a voice recording into a ringtone or text tone for iPhone easily with these instructions, which offers a fun way to personalize your device. Another method of

The Voice Memos app is exclusive to iPhone, missing from the iPad for some unknown reason. Mac users do have a comparably simple option, however, where there is the ability to record audio on the Mac with QuickTime, which results in a similarly formatted m4a file which can be shared universally as well.

Can you record an audio on iPhone?

With the Voice Memos app (located in the Utilities folder), you can use iPhone as a portable recording device to record personal notes, classroom lectures, musical ideas, and more. You can fine-tune your recordings with editing tools like trim, replace, and resume.

How do I use my iPhone as a recorder?

To make your first audio recording on your iPhone, open the Voice Memos app on your phone. In Voice Memos, at the bottom, tap the large red button to start recording. Your iPhone is now recording the audio with its built-in microphone.

How do I record room sounds on my iPhone?

How to record voice or other sound on iPhone.

Open Voice Memos on your iPhone (if you can't find it, it may be in a Utilities folder)..

Tap the red record circle at the bottom of the screen..

Tap the red square to stop recording..

How do I make my phone record sound?

Many phones have a built-in voice recording app, and Android is no exception..

Open the Recorder app. ... .

Click on the record button..

Start recording the desired audio..

To stop the audio, press the pause button..