Voice memos is not saved after i done recording

Has anyone been able to retrieve lost voice memos yet? I believe some people have contacted Apple for support.

I lost two voice memos of 2 hours in duration each. When I unlocked my phone after recording, I was not given the option to save or select 'done'. It seemed like the app crashed and the memos just disappeared. They are also not in the recently deleted list.

Searching for the memos on the main screen shows that they their names exist on the phone, but they are not retrievable in any manner that I have tried.

Some important interviews lost - hoping someone can help!

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I get no reply or help from Apple. I have lost recordings that were priceless for me.

I downloaded another recording app that has been great and I can save it to my PC and flash drive just like voice memos. I would suggest that and not use the voice memo option on the phone.

Thanks. My DM's are not private. I sent one more - still no response.

I downloaded a great recording app so I have something going forward, but what I lost is personally devastating to me. The damage done is indescribable.

The woman from Apple Support called me on Monday but it was just an update to say they were still investigating it. She’s been great with follow up which is waaay more than I can say for Apple Support on Twitter, who responded to my first message and then completely ignored the rest. I told her to go ahead and email me when she has an update.

@JeremyHarvey, are you able to update this site if you find out any possibilities of recovering files? That would be appreciated, though I don't wait in hope.

Also, @Colmoor, mine do not show up in any searches as well....only my practice files prior to the major interview I recorded.....of course!

I am sorry you lost your work. I am still dealing with the fallout. You are correct - warn people until you get it fixed.

I downloaded a free app to use going forwarded and it’s great. I can back it up thru iTunes onto my laptop and flash drive. I really like it. You might want to consider doing that. I don’t think I will ever use the iPhone app again. Can’t trust it and this was too important.

I downloaded Voice Recorder.

I didn’t do a lot of research because I needed something quickly, but it has been great so far. I have used it a few times with no problems. Last night, an alarm I forgot I had set went off and the taping resumed automatically when I shut the alarm off. Voice Memo didn’t do that. I found out the hard way that ANY interruption meant I had to remember to manually restart it.

I have backed up Voice Recorder thru iTunes to my PC and to my flash drive. It even saves to Notes. I have the free version and see no need to upgrade. The ads are non-intrusive/minimal. It does everything I need it to do and then some. Frankly, I wish I had downloaded it a while ago. It’s better than Voice Memo, IMHO.

Well, your help got me one step closer to solving my problem...

While I had the voice memo recording in the background, I plugged my Apple headphones into the jack. (iPhone SE / 12.01)

This stopped the recording which was fine since I was deleting it anyway. The problem is that there is no voice message to be found in the memo app. I tried an experiment and it did the same thing. There should be two memos in the app when there are none. If I start a third recording it says '3' at the end as if there are two there.

Using the information you gave above, the search does show there are two memo files. A regular recording and one with a '2' at the end. Selecting either of these brings up the memo app but no recording.

They weren't important and I just want to delete them off of the phone. Any ideas?

Same issue. Recorded an hour interview. Tried to figure out how to save it but the update changed the screen configuration. I hit the wrong button and poof--started at the beginning and erased the entire thing. Happened to a friend, too. Very bad design by Apple.

Glad you retrieved yours. This is not happening with most people. It is not saving it to begin with. There is no recording at all.

There appears to be multiple failures with this app. I downloaded a new recording app because there is no way to trust the Apple version.

That's a great solution. I was looking for an app like this, and I've tried a lot and none seemed to be able to access voice memos. This one can.

However, it won't find my m4a file or folder. Unfortunately.

I downloaded imazing to my pc...I got the same error message (ie the file or folder doesn’t exist), I clicked on to the File System folder, I clicked on “Recordings” where folders and links of my recorded voice memos were shown (including the missing one). I opened the “missing one”, and I clicked on another sub file called “fragments,” but it said the file was empty. Is there another way to navigate this in order to view the missing voice memo? As you can tell, i’m having the same issue...a 30 min interview recorded, shows up with a stamped date/time in the search bar of the navigation page, but there’s no recording in the app itself. I was on the phone with Apple for two hours today, with no solution. They have no idea what’s going on with it.

I had the same thing happen to me today, after recording an hour long revision lecture, i made sure it was running every couple of minutes, but i lost all of it 😟 Just like that, I have no idea where it is gone.

This is truly maddening.

I'm sorry that happened. I lost a total of 6 hrs of recording that was personally devastating to me. If it helps, I downloaded a free app called Voice Recorder and I use that now. It is great and you can back it up to your PC and iTunes. It is reliable and works great.

Sorry you lost your info. Apple really screwed up a good thing. Again.

Similar issue. Looks live the revamped app for iOS 12 works differently to before. I’ve just lost a 2hr recording that saved at 27mins for some very strange reason: truncated I think because I started to rename the recording before it was fully saved? Either way, this voice memo up is no longer trustworthy so this is a huge negative on Apple development. I’m already looking for another solution that’s not Apple now.