Voice memos is not saved after i done recording

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Voice memos is not saved after i done recording

Hello, i've been searching for this problem but i didn't find any solutions. There are only an unanswered one.

So, i have an iphone x with the new ios 12 installed on it last night. This morning i had an interview class with my lecturer about my thesis. To make it easier for me to takes on every word he says, i choose to record it on the voice memos. I already test it first and it records. After that i pressed the red button and begin recording session, it did shows the recording process with the sound graph or something like that (sorry i didn't know how to called it). After like 57 minutes i done my interview, when i pressed the done button it just bring me to the voice memos and it didn't show the recording i just made. But, when i try to search on the home screen (that one when u swipe to the right and type on the search box) it shows my last already made recording with the correct voice memos names but it didn't show up on the voice memos apps. How can i recover that lost voice memos when i can still search the correct name and it still shows up the memos ?

I try to describe as specific as possible, because i hope i can recover that voice memos because it is really a very very important one. I made this communities support account just for this just to let you know.

iPhone X, iOS 12

Posted on Sep 19, 2018 3:34 AM

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Answer 1

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fiqririhyawan Author

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80 points

Sep 27, 2018 7:39 PM in response to teysanook

Are you on the latest ios 12 or on the previous ios 11 ? If so, i think the ios 12 is the culprit behind this. Because, i used to record a lot with the voice memo on ios 11, and everything always gets recorded normally. It ***** so much if this thing didn't have any resolution 😟.

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Answer 2

Oct 1, 2018 11:25 PM in response to fiqririhyawan

I am having this issue on my iPhone 6 too.

It doesn’t save any recording after I click on “Done”!! Screw you APPLE!! Please don’t ever release something unstable to the user use please. I just lost one of the crucial recording in my life. One big big lesson learnt, don’t ever update ur OS during it first version release.

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A4JP

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Oct 15, 2018 9:11 PM in response to fiqririhyawan

Close the app after recording by swiping up to show the missing button then click done. After that and hour recording will take 5 to 10 minutes to show up. I don't know why Apple doesn't fix this and why is the swipe up near the start and stop record button? Have you also see the zoom bug in Safari yet? It has been here for about 3 years!!!!! https://a4jp.com/info.html

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Cåts

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4,614 points

Oct 15, 2018 9:23 PM in response to fiqririhyawan

They ARE saved! Open the memos app. When you open it, see the left side bar? That is where they are saved.

you can rename them.

the first 24 hours it will reflect the time that it was recorded. After that, it will reflect the date. If you need to remember both the time and date, I suggest you name it some like “ work: 10.15.18/ 1:15 PM “

here is a screenshot. Hope this helps. I’ve renamed mine “ address” as it’s an address I need for tomorrow.

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Answer 5

Oct 17, 2018 1:06 PM in response to fiqririhyawan

Hello! I got exactly the same issue as you this afternoon! I was saving a very important meeting all seems well I sabes and didn’t appear in my voice memo. But if I search in home screen it appears in the search. Did you get any feedback already? There’s have to be a way to recover this!

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Oct 18, 2018 2:50 AM in response to IphoneXCarina

I already moved on, because i try almost everything possible. From restarting app, hard restart, trying to see from iTunes, etc. Nothings works. For me, the first thing i notice when the problem occurs is when the voice memos app crashing, or running in the background and suddenly the recording icon on the top left disappear. Just make sure, whenever possible do 5 - 10 times trials of recording for 5 - 10 seconds, and also don't run it on the background. Disable the auto-lock on the settings so the phone screen will still turned on. This may prevent further crashes. I'm doing the follow up interview for my thesis and by doing what I just mention, I always successfully record voice memos. This is just ridiculous that apple didn't solve any of this problems.

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Odufa

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Oct 21, 2018 3:38 PM in response to Cåts

Don’t think you understanding the issue. We know where saved voice memos are. We can see some saved ones that have no issues. We can’t see some that we clicked on ‘done’ and for some reason is not showing up in the voice memos app. The voice memo app is buggy on iOS 12 even after updating to iOS 12.0.1. However when we search for the missing memo from the home screen using the name/number of the recording; it shows up as a search result but nothing in the app. In fact when recording a new voice memo, it’s skips the voice memo number that’s ‘missing’ and assigns the number after that.

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Answer 8

Sep 25, 2018 7:18 AM in response to fiqririhyawan

I also have the same issue on my iPhone 6s plus.

Here is the screenshots.

Voice memo issue - Album on Imgur

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Answer 9

Oct 3, 2018 9:14 PM in response to fiqririhyawan

Hey all, I'm having this exact same problem and the recording I took was of something extremely extremely important. Did anyone find a solution or answer to this issue??

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moehendi

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9 points

Oct 6, 2018 5:18 AM in response to fiqririhyawan

I can't believe what just happened , a very important meeting that am suppose to prepare the minutes for just disappeared. a hour and 20 minutes.

why is there no answers to this issue till now ....

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Answer 11

Oct 17, 2018 1:10 PM in response to A4JP

Sorry can you please detail as i’m facing exact same issue. But I’m not following your explanation

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Answer 12

Oct 17, 2018 11:08 PM in response to Aesthir

Sorry how did you solve your problem? Kindly help!

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Pran_kok

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4 points

Jan 15, 2019 7:15 AM in response to fiqririhyawan

I had this issue a while ago. I made a voice recording of an important meeting updated the name and clicked done. The meeting memo was disappeared completely. I verified the voice memo list and it doesn't have the mentioned memo but after a while that specific voice memo reappeared. Please recheck the voice memos list again after sometime.

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felobazo

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4 points

Feb 2, 2019 9:31 PM in response to fiqririhyawan

FINALLY GOT IT! To sum it up: Download iMazing - then try to recover the file through one of the 3 voice memo recordings the trial has, or if it results in an error, it may be because of two reasons: either it shows the path of the file, or it says it is on iCloud and has to be downloaded to the iPhone to be retrieved (not possible because as we all know there is no visible file on the app, only by the search bar @ home screen).

So, I went to the sidebar to "File System", and looked it up by its date and time filename. As you can see there is no .waveform (blank logo) or .m4a, however, I was allowed to use one of my 100 available file recoveries from the trial, to copy it to my Mac. The 1 hour 4 min voice memo was sized 370MB and inside the folder there was also the .waveform.

File recovered, so happy and so much kudos to iMazing!!!

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Answer 15

JoeA4

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4 points

Nov 20, 2018 1:59 PM in response to fiqririhyawan

Just wait 10 or 15 minutes for it to process amd will show up.

At least that’s what happened for me. I recorded an hour long meeting then hit Done and was like it was never recorded, I was wondering *** happened... By the time I had googled the problem, read this question, and downloaded 2 recording apps, the original “unsaved” recording had showed up in the voice memo list at the top and so had the other test recording I had made after it

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