voice memos not showing up in itunes

Same issue here! Out of 23 voice memos, only 1 voice memo (the very first memo that I recorded (2009)) appears in the itunes voice memo playlist! I simply want to back up these files in case of loss or damage to my phone, and it seems impossible. I have been reading the forums, and have tried every suggestion, with no success. In fact, I created a new itunes library, synched my phone, marked `include voice memos,` and now the voice memo playlist has completely disappeared! This is unacceptable. My quest is now to find a way to back up all of the contents of my phone onto my external hard drive WITHOUTneeding to use itunes, which is obviously not properly designed for this task. Thoughts? Does anyone know of another app for voice recording that functions well? I suppose I could record the audio of each voice memo into Audacity, which would be extremely time consuming since most of my memos are 30 mins long...

WHERE ARE YOU APPLE SUPPORT TEAM???

Hey thanks Fretbuzzin!!! this is great, and it worked. Had to disconnect and reconnect.

BTW, whatever you do don't call Apple support or they will waste 90 minutes of your time telling you to try stuff you already thought of!! Sometimes I feel like they should be calling me for help instead of vice versa!

Thanks everyone.

Simple temporary solution for important Voice Memos. Open the voice memo on your phone and click 'share' then email it to yourself.

Apple should really respond to this and get it sorted but this is a temporary solution if you need it.

Also has the advantage that you can save it to anywhere you like and bypass the assumptive and restrictive iTunes control freaks.

I seem to have solved this for myself. I used PhoneDisk (by macroplant, but I'm sure other things will work--I got it during some free promotion) to look in the file system of my iPhone 4. In the "Recordings" folder (along with the files Recordings.db and CustomLabels.plist) were the 5 voice memos from this week that I couldn't move to my Mac (.m4a's) and ALSO two .mov files which were voice memos from 8/29/10 and 11/30/10 (which I guess I had forgotten had somehow mysteriously disappeared at the time) Thanks to MatthijsB's comment, I recognized these as out of place. I deleted these two files (after copying to my desktop), and synced again--nothing. Then unconnected my iPhone, plugged it back in again and *BOOM*--as I watched it sync, it copied the 5 new voice memos over to my Mac. It seems the .mov files (which I guess were voice memos that never got correctly processed? Some older iOS version bug?) which were interrupting normal operations. Good luck, folks!

It blows my mind that Apple Support hasn't weighed in on this. What's it been, 8 months??!! I recorded an important four-hour presentation today and couldn't get it to appear in iTunes, either on my phone or computer. Thanks, lodenmuse and MatthijsB - I got PhoneDisk, and was able to use it to get to the .mov file. I deleted it from the phone and tried to sync, but didn't get the results that lodenmuse got - the voice memo is still not loading from phone to computer.

But - I've got the Quicktime file, and that's really all I need. Thanks guys (why aren't YOU getting a paycheck from our friends in Cupertino?)

Quick get around without getting any new apps.

Select the voice memo from the list on your phone then press the 'Share' button at the bottom of your screen. Email it to yourself.

I still think Apple should sort this out, but at least with this get around you can save them manually on your PC.

Colin

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Yes, but this method, emailing them to yourself, only works if the memo is short enough to be emailed. Anything larger than, say, 10 MB, is not going to work.

I have found that the method someone mentioned above does seem to work all the time -- that is, going in to the info area on each voice memo and saving it with a name --- TomCruise or whatever --- and then attaching the phone to Itunes and synching it.

My long voice memo was also not syncing and no playlist was being created. As suggested above, I gave it a name in the Custom menu and viola, it worked. Thanks to the one who posted the solution.

I don't like to be critical of Apple but if you're going to have support forums, you need to monitor them. Disappointing.

If an Apple customer support rep reads this, kindly submit a fix request for the Voice Memos or a clarification for the User Manual indicating what to do.

I found the answer, at least it worked for me.

Here ya go:

1) open the Voice Memos app on your iPhone

2) on any memo: click the little blue arrow on the right

3) Click the next arrow in the top most box this will put you in the "Label" screen

4) From the "Label" screen: click the arrow next to "Custom"

5) In the Custom screen: give the memo a name (click Done)

6) Click the left arrow (top left) to go back to your memos.

You'll see that you memo as a name. I changed mine from "4:25 PM" to "Fishcakes".

7) Sync you iPhone and you are good to go.

Blond James Blond: Nope. Tried that, and though it worked for some others on here, it didn't work for me. The only thing that worked, like I said before, was to get PhoneDisk, find the file, and got the .mov file that way. I tried all the other fixes listed here - this is the only one that worked for me.

Again - like you - I hate to dis Apple, been devoted since '84, but they seem to be losing their grip on A) nice user experience without boneheaded, excruciatingly-ornate workarounds (that's MS's bailiwick!) and B) agile and knowledgable customer support.

I'm really sorry to see this, and I hope it's not a trend.

I had same problem but this worked for me:

Open voice memos

Click the blue arrow beside the voice memo

Click the right arrow beside the main box

Click on "custom"

Rename your memo (I called it ABC)

Then disconnect your Iphone, close itunes, reconnect, sync and hey presto there it is!!!

Cheers

I was having the same issue on my iPhone 4, so I downloaded the PhoneView demo to my Mac and it let me grab the voice memos off my iPhone. Bonus points for having a button in the app to send to iTunes. Worked a treat! 😍