My apple watch 4 voice memos are not syncing with my iphone xs max and vice versa. Yes, settings:icloud:voice memos is on. Also, I cannot locate voice memos in icloud (web version). Shouldn't voice memos be syncing in all 3 places? All software is current on iphone and apple watch 4. Any help appreciated. Thank you.
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I have tested and mine works as it should.
The only other thing that I can think of is that maybe you need to reset your watch and iPhone.
Hard restart your iPhone by using what ever method is used on your phone.
When you see the Apple logo do the same for your watch by holding in the crown and side button for about 10 seconds till you see the apple logo.
When you see the logo on the watch, have a look at your phone and when it is ready, put your passcode into it to unlock it, then wait for you watch to finish booting and do the same to it.
Try your voice memo again.
Sorry this is the best I can think of short of erasing your watch and setting it up as new.
Is your watch logged into the same iCloud account as your iPhone?
for the watch iPhone>My Watch>General<Apple ID>should show the icloud account
for the iPhone iPhone>Setting>Your name>under your name it should show the icloud account
I deleted and reinstalled the voice memo app on my phone and it worked
I had a similar issue and spend an hour with an Apple support "genius" that unfortunately could not resolve this.
Anyhow - here is what worked for me - completely by accident.
My "voice memos" from my Apple Watch 3 would NOT sync to iCloud. I had already unpaired/paired my Watch from my phone. I had already completely erased my iPhone 7 and restored it from backup. What finally ended up working was when I factory reset and reinstalled my MacBook Pro. I opened voice memos on my MacBook Pro and low & behold it showed my voice memo recorded on the Watch.
Bottom line - anytime Apple comes out with a new major software update you should factory reset all your Apple devices. Luckily everything is backed up to iCloud so restoration is a snap.
Hope this helps someone else as I was fighting with this for two weeks.
-andy
An update to this syncing issue:
My iPhone 7 was still not showing the synced "voice memos" so I followed the same process I did for my MacBook. Reset the phone to factory settings and reinstalled all the apps from the App Store. DO NOT backup & restore using iTunes app as that will just restore the problem.
-Andy 🤓
I called Apple Support and the rep said because I synced previous voice memos via iTunes, those voice mails will not sync via iCloud (why Apple can't get around this is mind-boggling).
Theoretically (according to Apple Support), after turning off iTunes sync and turning on iCloud sync, new voice memos should sync via iCloud (though not the old ones synced via iTunes). Theoretically...
I turned off iTunes sync on all devices and turned on iCloud sync on all devices and then created new voice memos on each devices. None of them synced anywhere.
This is seriously frustrating.
Thanks, I will try that. Also, to my other question alluded to above, shouldn't the voice memos be showing up in my icloud account when I log in to icloud via a web browser? ie, shouldn't my phone and watch voice memos be appearing in my icloud account when accessed via a web browser?
If you have activated the new version of Voice memos in IOS13
Is Voice Memos on your iCloud?
iPhone>Settings>your name>iCloud>Voice Memos>Toggle this on
yes, voice memos is on in icloud settings on my iphone.
I did not see that myself.
Did you record a memo on your watch and try and see if it was there on your iPhone (or visa versa) a minute or so later?
Yes, precisely that which you say.
So you are saying that the recording is both on your watch and iPhone?
No, the new recording on my watch is not showing up on my iphone.
confirmed-both watch and iphone logged into the same icloud account. (btw, my replies are delayed as I've been notified that I am exceeding the posting limits)
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