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Want to capture a conversation or take a personal audio note to playback later? The Voice Memo app on the iPhone 6 allows you to record audio memos, edit memos by trimming them down, share them via email or instant message with Messages, and label audio recordings so that you can easily find and access them again. Learning how to record audio on the iPhone 6 is an easy thing to do and just takes some familiarity with operating the Voice Memo app.
Just follow these steps to record audio on your iPhone 6:
1On the second Home screen, tap the Extras folder to open it and then tap Voice Memos.
The Voice Memos app opens which allows you to begin recording your audio notes through the microphone of your iPhone 6.
2In the Voice Memos app, tap the red Record button to record a memo.
This button changes to a red Pause button when you’re recording audio.
3A blue line moving from left to right shows that you’re in recording mode.
While recording, you can tap the red Pause button to pause the recording and then tap Done to stop recording. The blue line is meant to reflect the progression of your voice memo.
4When you’re done recording, a New Voice Memo dialog appears where you can enter a name for the recording and tap Save. A list of recorded memos is displayed for easy organization and access.
Tap one to play it back, share it via AirDrop, Messages, or Mail; edit it, or delete it.
AirDrop is a feature that, with a fifth-generation iPhone or later, allows you to share items such as photos, voice memos, music, and more with another person who has an AirDrop-enabled device and is nearby. New with iOS 8 is the ability to share via AirDrop with a Mac using OS X Yosemite.
I use Apple's Voice Memos app for a variety of tasks — recording notes for work; strange foley sounds that might work well for The Incomparable's radio show; or, more recently, short song sketches or covers.
When I want to get those off my iPhone, I've got a few different options: It all depends on what computer I'm using.
On your primary computer: Use iTunes
If you want to send voice memos to the computer you also happen to use to sync your iPhone, it's easy enough.
Connect your iPhone to your computer via USB or Wi-Fi sync.
Open iTunes.
Click the icon that represents your iPhone along the top menu bar.
Select the Music option from the sidebar.
Check the 'Sync voice memos' box, if it's not already checked.
Press Apply (or Sync) in the bottom right corner.
Your voice memos will then download to your iTunes Library. From there, you can drag memos to your desktop or anywhere else you want them stored.
If you don't want memos in iTunes: Use the Share Sheet
If you're not on your primary computer for iTunes syncing or you'd just prefer not to use iTunes, there's a far simpler, easier way to get your memos onto your computer: AirDrop. Make sure both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are enabled on your iPhone and Mac, then do the following:
How To Get Voice Memos Off Iphone 6
Open Voice Memos on your iOS device.
Select the track you'd like to download.
Tap the Share button.
Wait for your computer's AirDrop icon to appear, then tap it.
Your voice memo will then download to your Mac's Downloads folder.
If you're using an older Mac that doesn't support cross-device AirDrop, you can also go the tried-and-true older route: sending yourself a text message.
Open Voice Memos on your iOS device.
Select the track you'd like to download.
Tap the Share button, then tap Messages.
Address the new iMessage to your iCloud address.
Press Send.
From there, you can open up that message on your computer by using the OS X Messages app.
Apple includes a built-in digital voice recorder in the iPhone. Why would you need a recorder? Consider all the times you’d find it useful to have a voice recorder in your pocket — perhaps when you’re attending a lecture or conducting an interview. Or maybe you just want to leave yourself a quickie reminder about something (“Pick up milk after work”).
Make a recording
After you have that recorder in your pocket, how do you capture audio? When you tap the Voice Memos icon on the Home screen or in the Utilities folder, where it typically hangs out, up pops the microphone.
It’s mainly for show. The two real microphones on the iPhone 4 and 4S are on the top and bottom of the device and the three microphones on the iPhone 5 are on the front, back, and bottom left.
Tap the red record button in the lower-left part of the screen to start recording. You see the needle in the audio level meter move as Voice Memo detects sounds, even when you pause a recording by tapping the red button a second time. A clock at the top of the screen indicates how long your recording session is lasting. It’s that easy. Also, see how to record audio on iPhone 6!
The audio meter can help you determine an ideal recording level. Apple recommends that the loudest level on the meter be between –3dB and 0dB. Speak in a normal voice. To adjust the recording level, simply move the microphone closer or farther from your mouth.
Listen to recordings
After you capture your thoughts or musings, how do you play them back?
You can start playback in a couple of ways, and both involve tapping the same button:
Immediately after recording the memo, tap the button to the right of the audio level meter. A list of all your recordings pops up in chronological order, with the most recent memo on top. That memo is the one you just recorded, of course, and it automatically starts to play.
If you haven’t just recorded something, tapping the button to the right summons the same list of all your recordings. However, nothing plays until you tap a recording in the list and then tap the little play button that appears to the left of the date and time that the recording was made (or to the left of the label you assigned to the recording).
You can drag the playhead along the scrubber bar to move ahead to any point in the memo.
If you don’t hear anything after tapping play, tap the Speaker button in the upper-left corner of the screen. Sound will pump through the built-in iPhone speaker.
How to trim recordings
Maybe the person who left the recording rambled on and on. You just want to cut to the chase, for goodness’ sake. Fortunately, you can trim the audio directly on the iPhone.
Tap the right-pointing arrow next to the memo you want to trim, and then tap Trim Memo. A narrow, blue tube representing the recording appears inside a yellow bar. Drag the edges of this audio region to adjust the start and end points of the memo. You can preview your edit before tapping the Trim Voice Memo button by tapping the little play button.
Your edits are permanent. Make sure that you’re completely satisfied with your cuts before tapping Trim Voice Memo — or that you’ve synced the original back to iTunes on your computer so that you’re working with a copy.
Add a label to a recording
When a memo is added to your list of recordings, it just shows up with the date and time of the recording. You see no other identifier. As memos accumulate, you may have a tough time remembering which recording was made for which purpose. You can label a recording with one of the labels Apple has supplied or, better, create a custom label.
Here’s how:
From the list of recordings, tap the right-pointing arrow for the memo to which you want to add a label.
The Voice Memo information screen appears.
Tap the right-pointing arrow in the box showing the date and time and the length of the video you just recorded.
Select a label from the list that appears.
Your choices are None, Podcast, Interview, Lecture, Idea, Meeting, Memo, and Custom.
Choose Custom to type your own label (Professor Snookins on Biology, for example).
That’s it. Your recording is duly identified.
You may want to share with others the good professor’s wacky theories. Tap Share from either the main Voice Memos list or the information screen. You then have the option to e-mail the memo or send it as part of a message (an MMS message, text message, or an iMessage).
You can also sync Voice Memos to your Mac or PC by using iTunes.
When you have no further use for a recording, you can remove it from the Voice Memos app by tapping it in the list and then tapping the Delete button.
I use Apple's Voice Memos app for a variety of tasks — recording notes for work; strange foley sounds that might work well for The Incomparable's radio show; or, more recently, short song sketches or covers.
When I want to get those off my iPhone, I've got a few different options: It all depends on what computer I'm using.
On your primary computer: Use iTunes
If you want to send voice memos to the computer you also happen to use to sync your iPhone, it's easy enough.
Connect your iPhone to your computer via USB or Wi-Fi sync.
Open iTunes.
Click the icon that represents your iPhone along the top menu bar.
Select the Music option from the sidebar.
Check the 'Sync voice memos' box, if it's not already checked.
Press Apply (or Sync) in the bottom right corner.
Your voice memos will then download to your iTunes Library. From there, you can drag memos to your desktop or anywhere else you want them stored.
If you don't want memos in iTunes: Use the Share Sheet
If you're not on your primary computer for iTunes syncing or you'd just prefer not to use iTunes, there's a far simpler, easier way to get your memos onto your computer: AirDrop. Make sure both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are enabled on your iPhone and Mac, then do the following:
Open Voice Memos on your iOS device.
Select the track you'd like to download.
Tap the Share button.
Wait for your computer's AirDrop icon to appear, then tap it.
Your voice memo will then download to your Mac's Downloads folder.
If you're using an older Mac that doesn't support cross-device AirDrop, you can also go the tried-and-true older route: sending yourself a text message.
Open Voice Memos on your iOS device.
Select the track you'd like to download.
Tap the Share button, then tap Messages.
Address the new iMessage to your iCloud address.
Press Send.
From there, you can open up that message on your computer by using the OS X Messages app.