voice memos not showing up in itunes

Hi all,

What worked for me was the following:

1. Trim the memo:
   1. press the blue arrow (right side of the memo)
   2. press "Trim Memo"
   3. drag the right end of the yellow bar slightly to the right, so you just trim a couple of seconds
   4. press "Trim Voice Memo"
2. Sync the device

Beware: this method removes some sound data at the end of your memo.

So only do this when you are sure this last bit is not important.

Good luck!

😀 SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR ALL:

Hey guys,

I think the following method is universal and will solve anyone's issue no matter what size Voice memo you want to move or what specific hardware, firmware, platform etc you have:

I assume the issue you want to solve is: being able to play Voice Memo app Recordings on the Music app on your iOS device via syncing through iTunes on a PC or Mac:

with that assumption, follow the simple steps below and it should work for anyone:

1. Cable-sync your iOS device to your iTunes (PC or Mac)
2. Your recording/s will be under Voice Memos (playlist)
3. Right Click (PC) or Two-Finger Tap (Mac) on the individual recording you want to sync
4. Click on "Get Info"
5. Just Notice on "Summary" tab, I assume the file is an AAC, at least 64kbps, Profile is Low Complexity and in Mono channel
6. Click on the "Options" tab (5th Tab along)
7. On the drop-down menu: "Media Kind" (by default it should say "Voice Memo") CHANGE IT TO: "Music"
8. Click "OK"
9. Create a NEW PLAYLIST FOLDER and name it whatever you want
10. Drag that Voice Memo track you just changed into that NEW PLAYLIST FOLDER you just made,
11. NOW SIMPLY SYNC:
12. Under DEVICES: Click on your iOS device and under the "Music" tab, check "Sync Music", "Selected playlists..." & under Playlists box, check that NEW PLAYLIST FOLDER you just made that has your changed Voice Memo and that's all
13. Click Apply and Sync your iOS device
14. under Music on your device your memo should come up

Only annoying thing about this solution is that you have to go into each memo and change that Media Kind to Music. Small price to pay to access it in the Music app i suppose 😐

Hope it works for you...

post back if it works, to help others solve this uneccessary issue, Apple should have tweaked!

Happy recordings!🙂

Heres what I found works for some strange reason

1. open Itunes as per usual
2. Highlight the chosen voice memo
3. Drag the files from itunes window to desktop
4. Rename the file
5. Drag it back to itunes

Hope this helps

Toni 🙂

Had this problem as well on iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1), iTunes 11.0.1

I read this workaround on another thread & it worked for me:

1. Disconnect your phone from iTunes
2. In your phone, go to voice memos app
3. Select the voice memo you want to transfer
4. Assign a category by clicking the grey arrow in the voice memo info screen
5. Click Trim Memo
6. Don't trim anything, just click Trim Voice Memo in the trim window
7. Repeat steps 2-6 for each memo you want to transfer
8. Sync with iTunes, and the memos should show up now.

THIS WORKED FOR ME

THANK YOU FEELMYBASS

Had this problem as well on iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1), iTunes 11.0.1

I read this workaround on another thread & it worked for me:

1. Disconnect your phone from iTunes
2. In your phone, go to voice memos app
3. Select the voice memo you want to transfer
4. Assign a category by clicking the grey arrow in the voice memo info screen
5. Click Trim Memo
6. Don't trim anything, just click Trim Voice Memo in the trim window
7. Repeat steps 2-6 for each memo you want to transfer
8. Sync with iTunes, and the memos should show up now.

Thanks a lot FeelMyBass!

Tried so many steps advised here but only yours working for me phew~

Mine is iPhone 4 (iOS 5.1.1), iTunes 11.0.2 though for reference purpose

I read this workaround on another thread & it worked for me:

1. Disconnect your phone from iTunes
2. In your phone, go to voice memos app
3. Select the voice memo you want to transfer
4. Assign a category by clicking the grey arrow in the voice memo info screen
5. Click Trim Memo
6. Don't trim anything, just click Trim Voice Memo in the trim window
7. Repeat steps 2-6 for each memo you want to transfer
8. Sync with iTunes, and the memos should show up now.

APPLE seriously need to get this fix! What's the point of having technology that put us in a situation in which we are spending more time trying to get things fix after paying for the gadget? /shakesfist

And I will go fill up the complaint/feedback form too. Thanks all 🙂

I don't know why I did it (I guess I got tired of the pop-up menu luring me into downloading the latest version of iTunes) but before and after doing this 2 days ago, things went from bad to worse on my iPhone 4s and my Voice Memos. Then I saw the growing community of miserable people who had placed their trust in Apple as I did. I tried just about everything--including plugging in, plugging out, unchecking, rechecking etc. and went to my old standby "woman vs. machine" mindset: have confidence that as an experienced user of tech, you will win when challenged by technology because you are intuitive. Just as they said at the dawn of the personal computer, it is intuitive (even if some of your programmers are not).

Then, I played around with the idea that ultimately I could move things back and forth between my iPhone and iTunes on my laptop. I depend on Voice Memos when I record interviews with clients. It should be a fast, easy and productive way for a writer to capture information and then log it to create documents, articles, posts and more. Of course, I didn't expect Apple to create all of these challenges. Here is what I think users of Apple products want in this case:

use the iPhone as an obvious tool to record voice

organize the information and preserve it by backing it up in the iTunes library or somewhere convenient on your hard drive

customize the above to user preference, i.e., decide according to the task how long the voice memo will be without having to trim the size, as well as what method for transfer (email, message) and where and how you can send it. That doesn't seem like a tall order given that Apple makes some nice change off of the available productivity apps.

allow the user to determine how many memos to store on either the phone or laptop given the amount of space available. Very simple, no?

Learning that there may be "bugs" that require fixes isn't good enough. In fact, it is unacceptable. The discussions in this thread cover 3 years of aggravation!!

Here is what worked for me:

• closed iTunes and unplugged my device
• accepted that my phone would automatically sync with iTunes.
• used my phone as the command and control.
• in Music on my iPhone 4S, used the "Add a New Playlist" option
• at the bottom menu, beginning with Playlists, clicked on "More" which takes you to the menu beginning with "Audiobooks" and then clicked on Genres.
• in Genres, it offered me the choice of Voice Recordings and clicked on that to add that as my new Playlist!
• my new Playlist was defined as Copied Items on my phone.
• plugged my phone back into my laptop, opened up iTunes and voila!! --- in the left Taskbar under Playlists was the new playlist Copied Items, but it represented absolutely all of my voice memos that I had recorded dating back to a year ago. Now the full set is stored in my iTunes library. It didn't have to be this hard to accomplish a task that was supposed to boost my productivity!!!!!

Yikes, Apple! I don't want to buy or download any third-party software or openware to fix what you should have done right in the first place. Next thing we know as we leave your retail stores will be the tagline inside the apple "Waste time and money--yours, of course!"

Thanks Xaero182 it worked. I repeat your method for the people.

Trim the memo:

1. press the blue arrow (right side of the memo)
2. press "Trim Memo"
3. drag the right end of the yellow bar slightly to the right, so you just trim a couple of seconds
4. press "Trim Voice Memo"
1. Sync the device

• I have "sync only checked songs and videos" checked (in the summary tab of the device).
• have "include voice memos" checked in music tab of device.

this works but don't know why.

i kept unplugging it. quiting iTunes. opening. unplugging. making test recordings. deleted all the voice memos. then made a few more tests and now it seems to work with the settings above.

I also have iMazing which allows me to move the voice memos. but I just think it should work as it should. but then again perhaps something is corrupted on my device—which could be true. I had other syncing issues. but it seems to be working now —

Sometimes we need to mess around and delete and make test recordings etc. It's part of the process. Making test recordings and deleting and renaming them—that's what I did.

[Using ipod touch 64 GB with ios 8.1 on a MacBook Pro OSX 10.9.5]

nimai_pandit wrote:

• I have "sync only checked songs and videos" checked (in the summary tab of the device).
• have "include voice memos" checked in music tab of device.

this works but don't know why.

This doesn’t work for me either.

HELP.