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IOS 9 Voice Memo Issue

I am having an issue with voice memos in IOS 9 while the iPhone 5 is connected to my Ford F-150 SYNC system.

What is happening is that when I start the voice memo app the vehicle acts like I am making a phone call. The music stops playing (not a bad feature actually). The display indicates a phone call is taking place. I cannot hang up using the screen on the SYNC system. The only way to get music back, actually to get the SYNC system back, is to force terminate the voice memo app.

I am trying to determine if the problem is within the SYNC system or within IOS. The problem did not exist in earlier versions of IOS. It may even be a compatibility issue between SYNC and IOS and not the fault of IOS entirely. I had the problem while running the beta (even IOS 9.1) and reported the issue to Apple multiple times but the problem still exists within IOS 9. For your information I did a DFU restore on the phone to get IOS 9 back and get out of the beta program.

So I am asking if others that have their phones connected via bluetooth to their vehicles are having the same issue with the voice memo app.

iPhone 5, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 19, 2015 6:24 AM

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nkfromnyc

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Posted on Jan 6, 2017 11:41 AM

Ya'll may have figured this out already:

iOS 10.1+ no longer supports Voice Memo playback through Bluetooth. The workaround is to upload the individual voice memo recording to iCloud drive, or another app that has audio playback, and then stream it through that other app/drive for Bluetooth Audio to function.

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raymond73 Author

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Oct 20, 2015 7:50 AM in response to RecipeFairy

I went to settings>messages> scroll down to Raise to Listen and slide it off. See if that helps.

Thanks, I will make the settings change and see what happens.

Nov 14, 2015 3:02 PM in response to raymond73

Any fix to this problem.?? My Bose soundlink does not work anymore with voice memo....

Dec 14, 2015 10:44 AM in response to raymond73

I just did the update recently and I am having the same issues with linking my voice memos to a speaker. Do you have any updates on how to fix this?

raymond73 Author

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Dec 15, 2015 7:43 AM in response to smeyer0315

Nope. Recent upgrade to IOS 9.2 did not solve the issue. Ford is blaming Apple, Apple is blaming Ford. Neither wants to take responsibility.

raymond73 Author

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Dec 24, 2015 12:31 PM in response to smeyer0315

There is an update to the SYNC system that I installed on my vehicle. Whether that cures the issue I don't know. There is a blurb in the release notes about a problem with IOS 9 and SYNC that Ford is working with Apple to resolve. It certainly did not mention the voice memo issue. I have not tried since installing the update. Perhaps next week.

Sep 5, 2016 4:36 PM in response to raymond73

I'm having the same problem with a Samsung R1 speaker that we recently purchased. I'm running iOS 9.3.5. When you click on a voice memo to play, it silences background apps (if any are playing), but does not play the voice memo except on the phone (or phone speaker, depending on the speaker selection.) Frustrating.

Moscool

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Sep 9, 2016 1:51 AM in response to raymond73

I have the same problem: I am connecting a BT UE Roll speaker which works perfectly with other applications. Here is a screenshot for the Music app for instance:

When I try to play voice memos in the same way, I either get the speaker icon on the top right of the screen (no choice of devices) or this weird screen (instead of the previous one):

As you can see, no trace of the BT speaker. What is weirder, is that the system sounds (e.g. volume up/down) still come through the BT speaker!

Definitely an iOS bug, judging by the range of devices involved. Bizarre it hasn't been sorted out yet.

Ron1958

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Nov 26, 2016 5:46 AM in response to raymond73

The IOS 10.2 software has the same issue. I wish Apple would fix this bug.

Ron1958

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Nov 27, 2016 10:59 AM in response to raymond73

The only way to stream voice recorder to Bose Bluetooth is to attach a wire from your headphone jack to the back of the Bose speaker. Be sure to hit the Auxillary button on the speaker.

Gr00ty

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Dec 7, 2016 1:58 PM in response to fk9wings

When in the voice memo app got to the 'open in other app' or share icon and send the memo to notes. This will export it as an m4a file. Notes will connect to the Bluetooth speaker. Not perfect but works well enough..

Moscool

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Jan 7, 2017 5:31 AM in response to raymond73

This *****. Yet another inexplicable random change...

Does anyone know how to put through a bug/feature request to Apple from a phone?

Mar 11, 2017 4:18 AM in response to Moscool

Having exactly the same problem. The icon on the upper right of voice memos no longer pulls up the menu of sound output options. Has this been fixed yet?

Sep 18, 2017 11:22 AM in response to Channel21

Not sure if this has been said. But workaround is emailing the memo to yourself then listen to it from the attached file.

IOS 9 Voice Memo Issue