Voice Memos Not Showing Up In iTunes, Fixes

iPhone has a built-in voice memos app. With this app, you can store voice memos on your iPhone and transfer them to your computer. iTunes will transfer voice memos once you enable that setting.

Several users have reported that some voice memos are not showing up in iTunes when they connect their iPhones.

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Follow These Steps to Sync Voice Memos With iTunes

• Connect your device to iTunes and click the device icon in the upper-left corner of the iTunes window
  • In the left sidebar, under Settings tap Music
  • Check the box for Sync Music and then check the box for include voice memos
  • Tap Apply and then Done 
• If iCloud Music Library is turned on, select Sync voice memos then click Apply

Voice memos synced from iPhone to your computer appear in the Music list and in the Voice Memos playlist in iTunes.

Voice memos synced from your computer appear in the Voice Memos app on iPhone, but not in the Music app.

If Voice Memos Still Doesn’t Sync with iTunes

Try these steps to resolve your issue. Please test after each step:

• Go to iTunes Preferences > Devices and check the box to Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically. Try syncing again 
• Open Voice Memos on your iPhone, tap the three dots to open the Voice Memos Menu and select Edit Recording 
  • Tap the current name and change it to something else
  • Tap Done to save the new name
  • Disconnect your iPhone, close iTunes, reconnect, and try syncing again
• Uninstall iTunes and reinstall again then try syncing again

Delete Voice Memos?

To delete a voice memo from your iPhone or iPad

• simply slide the recording to the left to access the Delete button, or continue sliding to delete instantly
• Or choose Edit, select the recording to delete, then choose Delete

If you delete a synced voice memo from iTunes, that voice memo stays on the device where it was recorded.

But it’s deleted from any other iPhone or iPod touch you sync with.

Delete a Voice Memo From iPhone or iPad?

When you delete a synced voice memo from your iPhone or iPad but not from iTunes, it’s copied back to that iPad or iPhone the next time you sync with iTunes.

However, if you delete that voice memo from iTunes, you can’t sync that copy back to iTunes a second time.

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