MP3 voice recordings won't play on iPhone

I have a friend who is using an iPhone and has some mp3 voice recording files that they are trying to download from a Discord server. The files will download to their phone, but won't play. They tell me it tries to open in iTunes U, and then goes to a white screen, then nothing. They are using iOS 16.0.3

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iPhone 11

Posted on Nov 25, 2022 11:54 AM

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nbotros

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Nov 27, 2022 11:02 AM in response to Bjones4672

Hello Bjones4672,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. To get started, you can, try the steps under in the following post where a Community Specialist has responded to someone with a similar question:

I cannot listen to audio links

We hope this information is useful. Kind regards.

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