How to use your iphone as a recorder

Have you ever wanted to record voice using your iPhone secretly? With Voice Memos app, you have to open the sound recorder and then manually start and stop the recording. People in front of you will know that you are recording their voice. Well, it is actually very easy to record sound secretly using your iPhone. The free Voice Recorder HD app lets iPhone iPad users record voice around secretly and stealthily. You can schedule voice recording so it can start sound recording and end the recording automatically. No need to unlock your phone screen or open the app to start or stop the recording, your phone screen can be locked during the whole recording process.

Run the voice recorder app on your iPhone or iPad. Tap the More Menu (three vertical dots), you can then find the option Start Recording at the Scheduled Time. And then touch the Record button at the bottom left to firstly choose Start Time, then press Continue to to choose End Time. Finally press Record button. You can now lock your phone. The voice recording will start and stop automatically.

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Sometimes you need to record a thought quickly or, perhaps, you're interviewing someone and only have your iPhone on hand. 

In either case, the iPhone has a great built-in app for this: Voice Memos. 

Using the Voice Memos app, you can not only record voice notes, as the name suggests, but also edit and share them with whomever you'd like.

If you are concerned that the Voice Memos app is too low quality or unprofessional, think again. Taylor Swift, Adele, and Mick Jagger have used the Voice Memos app on their iPhones to share song ideas or demo recordings with their collaborators. Sometimes these snippets even make it into finished songs.

Here's how to record and edit using the Voice Memos app on an iPhone.

Quick tip: While the Voice Memos app is quite good, it won't let you record a phone call. There are several quality paid apps you can use to record calls on an iPhone should you need to.

How to record audio on iPhone with the Voice Memos app

1. Locate the Voice Memos app, which may be in your phone's Extras or Utilities folder; it says "Voice Memos" under it and has an image of an audio graph.

2. Launch the app, and note the large red circle at the bottom. When you tap that, a new recording will start.

3. To stop recording, tap the red square at the bottom of the screen.

And as far as the basics go, that's it — that's how you record audio on your phone. But there are a few other things to explore within the Voice Memos app.

Quick tip: For more advanced audio recordings, particularly those geared toward the production of music, podcasts, and the like, you might try GarageBand for iPhone, which singer-producer Steve Lacy famously used to record a track for Kendrick Lamar's Grammy-winning 2017 album "DAMN."  

How to edit and export an audio file on Voice Memos

To rename a recording, tap the word "New Recording 1" (assuming this is your first) and type in a name.

To add more to your recording after you stopped it, tap the three blue dots beside it, then hit Edit Recording. Scroll to the end of the timeline, hit Resume to recommence the recording. Just be sure you scrolled to the end, or you will be replacing audio rather than adding more to the end.

Quick tip: You can also crop the edges of the audio file through the same Edit Recording feature. Just tap on the square icon with two vertical lines at opposite corners (of the square) on the top right of the window.

To share an audio recording, exporting it to apps or sending it to others, again tap the three blue dots beside a recording and click Share to open sharing options.