voice memos not showing up in itunes

Triggered by the message from cutemisanthrope (love that nickname) I tried to sync a memo. And it worked, just like that! I didn't even check the box 'Sync memo's. Could it be they fixed this bug finally? There are two changes: I have iOS 8 installed and I now have an iPhone 6 (but I find it hard to believe it was a hardware problem). I'd like to hear from others if it works for them now too. In other words: if it's reliable now and I can go back to using the Apple app.

Well, my iTunes and iPhone are syncing music again. It was probalby caused by a corrupted library (iTunes had placed movies in my Music folder). Now they're syncing great. Even voice memo's. Yes! Two changes: I now have an iPhone 6 and I'm (of course) running iOS8. Is there a bug fix list of iOS 8? Is our problem mentioned there?

There are many ways you can save your voice memos to your computer, If you have a few voice files, you can send them to your computer by E-mails, it's very convenient, but if you have large number of voice files, you may need some app, iPubsoft iPhone iPad iPod to Computer Transfer is I used, it works. The way to transfer iphone voice memeos

I just had this problem today, with iOS 8.1.

I had a 1hr 14 minute voice memo that would not sync. I had already given it a name.

I just changed the name to something else, and it synced.

I can't believe the bug is still here since iOS 4.x

I found a solution that has worked so far. I converted the original Voice Memo .m4a file to a .mp3 file. This not only allowed me to name it what I wanted to name it, I was able to change the genre to what I wanted, was able to create a smart playlist and it uploaded into that playlist on my phone.

I FINALLY FIGURED THIS OUT AFTER 3 DAYS OF TRYING EVERYTHING! I hope this works for someone who is having difficulty getting their voice memos to show up in iTunes. SOME of my memos were showing up and some were not. I tried every suggestion here and none worked. Something dawned on me from a web dev class I once took....the name of the memo. I had them named like Feb 5....REMOVE THE SPACE and rename to Feb5

WORKED like a charm. I renamed all memos removing any spaces ...voila....they are now in itunes (after syncing of course). Oh, BTW, I hate Apple after this experience....I see an android in my future.

aidnac wrote:

I just changed the genre of the file and then it synced over.

1. Connect your iphone to your computer

2. Let itunes perform a sync of your phone

3. Go to the phone details and go to "On this iPhone" (on the right side)

4. On the left side choose the Voice Memos playlist

5. After you locate your memo, right-click on it and choose "Get Info"

6. Click on the Info tab and change the Genre at the bottom (I changed it from Voice Memo to Other)

7. Perform a sync to move the voice memo over to itunes

Note: I did notice an extra copy of the voice memo showing in the list on my iPhone. This only appeared in itunes however. It may just be a ghost image, not sure what impact it will have on things later.

This did not work for me. iPhone 5S with iOS 8.

HELP!

mcmjuly wrote:

I FINALLY FIGURED THIS OUT AFTER 3 DAYS OF TRYING EVERYTHING! I hope this works for someone who is having difficulty getting their voice memos to show up in iTunes. SOME of my memos were showing up and some were not. I tried every suggestion here and none worked. Something dawned on me from a web dev class I once took....the name of the memo. I had them named like Feb 5....REMOVE THE SPACE and rename to Feb5

WORKED like a charm. I renamed all memos removing any spaces ...voila....they are now in itunes (after syncing of course). Oh, BTW, I hate Apple after this experience....I see an android in my future.

This did not work for me either.

I have both "Include Voice Memos" and the playlist "Voice Memos" ticked yes.

I feel bad for you William....I was going absolutely nuts trying to figure this out, so I know how frustrated you feel. Can you list the things you have tried? I researched this alot, so maybe I will see something you have not tried yet. Also, did you know there is a way to see errors on your iphone? I didn't till I started researching this issue. I can't remember how to get there (iphones make my head spin), but I'm sure you could Google how to view error report on iPhone. It might give you some insight into what is happening. Let me know if I can help.

Connie

Hi everyone!

Today I faced with this problem. I opened my itunes and couldn't find any voice memos. I tried everything that was here above and everything I could find in Google. I wasted several hours to this sh*t.

Eventually I just typed in Finder's search "Voice Memo" (I work on Mac) and vu a la! my voice memos appeared in Finder (of course my phone was connected to the computer). However they go with their original names (you know the dates and some number, like this: 20141002 170743.m4a).

Oh, by the way I use iphone 4S and current iOS is 8.3 (have no idea about the importance of this info but may be it is useful).

So, I hope this will be helpful for you all.

Wow. This really works. But with the advice from mcmjuly on page 19, not using spaces in the name, even works better (for me that is): this makes them show up in iTunes under Voice Memo's. Thanks guys. I only have one other problem: when I convert these MP4's tot MP3's they aren't completely converted. A 38 minute MP4 recording ends up as an 15 minute MP3. Another annoying problem. Off topic I realise, but maybe somehow connected to this malfunctioning?

finally found the answer to the problem

go in to voice memos then click on the upload button, under the options of Email Messages is a box that says MORE (note its UNDER not the one next to it) after that the option dropbox will come up if you have it installed in your phone... click on it and upload it. 😀 its important not to let your phone sleep in the proces because then it will cancel the upload.

hope it works for you

Open the voice memo, click the edit button and just trim a second of the clip. Then save it to a different file. Open iTunes and delete any existing playlist of voice memo, then sync the phone. the new file will be synced to the pc. its worked for me

Thx, worked for me. Seems to be the only sure option. I had 22 voice memos on iPhone, only 12 showed up in iTunes. I tried different solutions, nothing worked. Quite annoying and even upsetting, as these memos have important information... I remarked similar problems sometimes in syncing contacts and the edit-solution also applies to this problem: you edit the contact (just add one letter and remove it is enough, or add e.g. 'ok' at the end), save it and it does sync. You can do similar here, edit every voice memo, just trim it a few images and it will sync. So I guess it's a sync problem. Important note: I needed iBrowse to complete the job. It allows you to transfer all the files, you can read your iPhone like a HD. My 12 memos were in the root, the 10 'invisible' ones were in the subfolder Composition/Fragments. So the audio was definitely there, but it was somewhere corrupted. These files I had to recover from iBrowse, as they wouldn't sync in iTunes and wouldn't also transfer through the Dropbox-command (I got an error-code).

On the Voice Memos - you can forward the recording by Email or Messaging to another device.

I had the same issues with SYNC failing to send the old messages and tried this. It worked for me.

Just Tap the Voice Memo and then slide the message up on the screen to see the forwarding icon.

They show up in your mail as a MP4 attachment, then in your in download file.

From there opening them saves them to iTunes.

😉

It worked for me I had about 8 critical recordings that I had made and needed to save.