Voice Memo won't play

Ditto on all above, however I didn’t have this problem 2 hours ago before I bought a brand new iPhone XR. I had a 7plus and never had a problem. Two hours and into my new iPhone and all voice memos , press play and nothing, same troubles press play and nothing . My gut said don’t buy a new phone and **** if I didn’t listen.

Voice memos are important to me. I can see them all, but there appears to be nothing there. This was discovered on a device update from iphone X to iphone XS. After backing up the X to my pc and icloud the voice memos became silent on the X and could not be migrated to the XS.

..I regularly use voice memos, synced with mac, and after spending an hour recording a memo, the memo is still visible [on my mac and iphone, showing the correct recorded length in minutes and seconds], but the screen showing the waveform of the recording, is an horizontal flat line as though it didnt record, and yet, it was the usual oscillating wave when i was recording it.

When I press play. Nothing happens. It's there but it's not there.

Apple. This is highly highly highly irritating.

All that time spent and nothing to show for it, because your app does not work. I should throw this bloody expensive thing out of the window and go buy a cheap dictaphone from the 1980's and it would outperform Apple!!!!

Not happy.

I used a YouTube video and it worked perfectly! Following this tutorial I was able to restore a 1:49 min voice memo file. I’m one happy camper! Thanks to Liv4IT. You’re a life saver!!

https://youtu.be/Zy4LDk_Tszo

Same problem. Had my iPhone XS for a month, just realized all my voice memos are corrupted / won’t play.

Thanks for the “improved” voice memo app. Wonderful. I had a year’s worth of recordings of my daughter. Synced with iCloud since forever. Now buggered.

I have the same problem. Was troubleshooting my battery and did a full reset of my iPhone + restore from backup. Since restoring from backup, I can no longer access my old voice memos.

I can access new voice memos recorded since the reset, but any older files seem to be corrupted now. I wonder if there will ever be a fix for this. It's a shame because I record music ideas on my iPhone a lot.

I had this issue and I just resolved it. I had a playlist in my itunes named "Voice Memos" and I transferred the playlist back to the iphone; now all the memos are working correctly (it did duplicate some of them, but at least they all work now).

Is anyone of apple gonna address that?

I recorded an 1h05min interview for my masters thesis and it doesnt play!!

Same issue. I have 100s of voice memos and after upgrading to xsmax they wont play.... ahhh i need them

I am not able to transfer my voice memo to any location. How did you manage to get your voice memo on your laptop? Only then I think i will be able to follow the procedures as showed in the video.

this is crazy right. Ye we continue to use apple products. I say we go old school. Good will still sells cassette tape recorders...

Please can you do a step by step explanation, thank you

That worked for me as well 👍

It’s both atrocious and unacceptable for Apple to be not responding to over 200 complaints regarding the voice memo problem.

I had 5 years worth of voice memos in my Apple ID. Realising that my voice memos are huge in size and beyond 5GB, I expanded iCloud storage plan to 50GB to accommodate all my voice memos and store it in iCloud. If I knew iCloud storage is so deceptive and can not be relied upon, I would have opted the old school way of keeping it all in a hard drive. I opted for iCloud storage to suit my professional life of 16 hours in-office and out-of-office work a day. I am sure many of us are on the same boat. I am a social theorist of science and technology, currently pursuing my PhD and all the 5 years worth of interview could have been useful towards writing my PhD thesis. I have an assignment due this Monday and for which I need the voice memos I recorded earlier this year. I spent nearly $500-1000 to visit my field and gather the interview. For a student who is on financial aid, this is too much of a cost to incur.

I could have very well stored in on my laptop or stored it on google drive or in me e-mail account or hardrive. But what’s the credibility that they all won’t fail (my laptop just got resurrected), if iCloud and Apple could. I read the message on the following photograph from a third party app to view backup files while trying to read my voice memo.

Apple should just disable voice memos in itself because they are not equipped to serve their customers reliant on their service: voice memo.

Indeed, people are more vulnerable in technological cultures. Thanks for making me feel vulnerable, Apple.