Voice Memo on iPhone iTunes Tutorial

Voice Memo on iPhone iTunes Tutorial

Voice Memo on iPhone iTunes Tutorial

Yesterday’s Voice Memo on iPhone Primer Tutorial got us …

  • creating a Voice Memo saved on an iPhone … ready for today’s …
  • exporting of that iPhone Voice Memo onto a MacBook Pro’s version of iTunes via an Apple white lead connecting the iPhone to the MacBook Pro

Mac OS X or iOS (or indeed Windows) versions of iTunes are great desktop applications capable of being your repository “central” for Music and/or Videos and/or (as we show today) Voice Memos that could have been created on your mobile device (out and about) as a dictation exercise, or as an informational audio media piece of content.

Think “Apple white lead” and two Apple devices and you can think “iTunes”. For a very long time now, iTunes has been the first point of call on either end of a multiple device sharing arrangement with Apple white leads, or other non-lead arrangements, to “Sync” devices for media.

Today, we’ve used QuickTime Player on a MacBook Pro while connected to the iPhone 6 with the Voice Memo via an Apple white lead to make the YouTube video below …

… to show you how to transfer (or Sync) for an iPhone connected to a MacBook Pro, but a student and I succeeded quite easily achieving a similar effect for an iPhone and a Windows 10 laptop …

  1. have iPhone and MacBook Pro ready …
  2. connect the Apple white lead with USB end at the MacBook Pro
  3. click the MacBook Pro’s iTunes icon or do this with Finder in the Applications folder
  4. answer any questions asked ready to up the top (to the right of that menu) see an iPhone icon that you click … revealing …
  5. media contents on the iPhone appears and down the bottom right you’ll see proportions of iPhone diskspace used and a Sync button and a Done button, and up the top a checkbox talking about Sync and showing options …. so …
  6. up the top amongst the checkboxes, as required, make sure Voice Memos will be Synced …
  7. optionally click the top checkbox to allow a Sync Music operation …
  8. click the Sync button down at the bottom menu justified right …
  9. Voice Memos not already Synced in the past will find their way into the MacBook Pro’s “Music” part of its iTunes library … so to hear them …
  10. click the MacBook Pro’s Music section of the left menus to see your newly imported Voice Memos ready to be able to play them, and if all is well …
  11. click the eject (arrow up) icon next to the iPhone icon on the left menu to eject the connection …
  12. disconnect the Apple white lead, as required

Previous relevant Voice Memo on iPhone Primer Tutorial is shown below.

Voice Memo on iPhone Primer Tutorial

Voice Memo on iPhone Primer Tutorial

If you are on the go with a mobile device such as the iPhone 6 of today’s tutorial, and think of an idea, you may want to consider dictating your thoughts into a Voice Memo.

Today, we’ve used QuickTime Player on a MacBook Pro connected to the iPhone 6 via an Apple white lead to make the YouTube video below …

… to show you how to …

  • be at the iPhone desktop (via Home button taps)
  • tap (touch) “Extras” (maybe “Utilities”) folder to reveal a Voice Memos icon …
  • tap “voice Memos” icon …
  • tap speakers icon at top right and set to “iPhone” (and you may need to ensure the volume is up enough for a dictation type of audio recording) then …
  • as necessary drag start of Voice Memo to zero seconds and …
  • tap red circle record button (it goes square) …
  • dictate what you want to record then …
  • tap (that now square) red button to stop recording the Voice Memo …
  • optionally play it back via dragging pointing back to zero seconds again before tapping left pointing play button to hear back the Voice Memo … and …
  • if you want to Save the Voice Memo tap the “Done” link and fill out a Voice Memo filename saved to your iPhone and that you will see listed as you re-enter the Voice Memo app the next time

Useful, we hope, huh?!

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