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Voice Memos Not Showing Up In iTunes, Fixes

By 10 comments Last updated October 9, 2018

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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 Sync Voice Memos App With iTunes 12.8
  • 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 iTunes Devices Preferences
  • Open Voice Memos on your iPhone, tap the three dots to open the Voice Memos Menu and select Edit Recording voice memo app menu options on iPhone with iOS 12
    • 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

To delete a voice memo from a Mac using macOS Mojave or above

  • Select the voice memo you want to remove from the list and press the backspace key to delete it
  • Or go to the Edit Menu and choose Delete

All deleted memos are immediately moved to the Recently Deleted folder in Voice Memos before being permanently deleted.

Delete a Voice Memo on iTunes?

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.

Want To Share a Voice Memo?

Want to share your voice memo with family, a co-worker, or a friend? Need to save that voice memo elsewhere like to a second location?

Just tap the memo you want to share from the list, tap the three dots, and finally tap Share… 

Choose to AirDrop it,  message it, copy to dropbox or google drive, or even email it!

On your iPad or Mac, select a memo, then tap the share button to share it with others or save to a different location.

Sync Voice Memos Between Devices? Turn on iCloud for Voice Memos!

With an Apple ID and iCloud, you can access your voice memos from anywhere!

macOS Mojave and higher now syncs Voice Memos automatically using iCloud with your iPhone and iPad signed in with the same Apple ID.

Requirements for Voice Memo iCloud Sync:

  • Devices signed into iCloud with the same Apple ID
  • iPhone & iPad
    • Settings > Apple ID Profile > iCloud > toggle Voice Memos ON (slider set to green)  voice memos iCloud setting
    • Settings > Voice Memos > Background App Refresh enabled
  • Mac
    • System Preferences > iCloud > iCloud Drive > Options > Documents > turn on Voice Memos

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  1. YaRight says

    Awesome!!! The fix for voice memos worked.

    I had to click the three dots then edit.

    All I did was delete one letter and put it back then select done.

    I did that for each of the 16 recordings that hadn’t synced. after that, I ejected the iPhone.

    plugged it back in and selected sync.

    All are now in the library. This took me months to find with intermittent searches.

    THANK YOU!

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  3. Warren Steele says

    The iCloud method is not working for me. I am signed in and enabled on both my phone and mac and can still not see the memos on my mac that were recorded on my phone. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

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    • SK says

      Hi Warren,

      To clarify, you Mac runs macOS Mojave but is not syncing voice memos with your iPhone.

      Try creating a voice memo on your Mac and see if it populates on your iPhone.

      Some readers tell us that once they made a recording on their Mac with macOS Mojave and Voice Memos and that memo populated on their iPhones, then their macs started populating with all the voice memos from their iPhones.

      So let’s try that.

      Let us know if the problem persists,

      Sam

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  6. Daniel Colvin says

    We are talking about an iPhone right?

    “Open your voice memos on your iPhone, tap the little blue arrow on the right and the next arrow (>). Tap Custom and give the memo a name; go back to your memos and disconnect your iPhone, close itunes, reconnect, and try syncing again.”

    There is no “little blue arrow on the right”

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  7. Bruce Swanton says

    I ended up backing up the phone, which I had not done in a while. All of the memos now appear in iTunes.

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