How to Copy Voice Memos from iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 (Plus) to Your Computer

Method 1. Transfer iPhone Voice Memos to PC via Email/MMS

If you only want to send a small size of voice memo, the most convenient and quickest way is transfer your iPhone voice memo via Email or MMS. But if you have a large number of voice memo with big size, you could consider other methods mentioned below.

Follow the steps to copy voice memos from iPhone to computer via Email/MMS.

1. Go to Voice Memos app on your iPhone.
2. Choose the memo you want to send.

   

3. Tap on Share button
4. Now you can choose whether to send your memo via email or message. Just follow the instructions on the screen.

   

Method 2. Transfer Voice Memos from iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 (Plus) to Computer via iTunes

Voice Memo is the only media type which can be transferred from iPhone to iTunes. As is known to all, Apple has many limitations and can't support other media files like music, videos to transfer from iPhone to iTunes. But as Voice Memo belongs to Music type in iTunes, please note that you'd better backup your music & playlists on your iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 (Plus) firstly before you copy voice memos from iPhone to computer with iTunes. Otherwise, the sync process will overwrite all of your original music files on your iPhone and only keep the voice memos left. Follow the steps mentioned as below.

1. Connect your iPhone via the USB-cable and open iTunes.
2. Choose your iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 (Plus) on the main menu.

   

3. Select the “Music” option in the left sidebar and check two options "Sync Music" and then "Include voice memos".

   

4. Synchronise the music by pressing Apply button.
5. Your memos will appear in the Music list! (You can access the actual audio file simply by right-clicking on the memo).

Method 3. Top 3 iTunes Alternatives for iPhone Transfer

1. Software: Dr.Fone - Phone Manager (iOS)
Price: $ 39.95
Platforms: Windows/ Mac

Brief overview:
With Dr.Fone - Phone Manager (iOS), you can transfer music and voice memos from iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 (Plus) to computer in 3 simple steps. Besides, you can transfer a variety of different file formats from iPhone to computer and vice versa. Also, you can save your messages as the html format with attachments.

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2. Software: iExplorer
Price: starting from $ 34.99
Size: 10 MB
Platforms: Windows & Mac

Brief overview:
iExplorer allows to easily organize your voice memos, texts and SMSs. Simply export your saved messages to the computer or convert them into more handy formats: .pdf, .csv, .txt etc. Also, you can simply back up your text history and look back at it, when needed. The program ensures that no quality will be lost when transferring voice memos from iPhone to computer, so no need to worry about that. It can even restore your lost messages in some cases. Apart from messages, iExplorer is a very practical data manager, which enables to systematize your data in the most convenient way.

3. Software: SynciOS
Price: $ 34.95 (free version is also available)
Size: 81.9MB
Platforms: Windows

Brief overview:
Another software for data management and transferring files between iPhone and your PC. It requires iTunes to be installed on your computer. Voice memos can easily be transferred in just a few simple intuitive steps. What is more, not only voice memos can be transferred, SynciOS also helps to save other multimedia files, apps, photos and more. iOS audio/video converter is also included for our convenience. It's free to transfer voice memos from iPhone to computer.

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