Access VoiceMemos On Mac

If you sync your phone with your Mac via iTunes, Voice Memos are automatically transferred and added to an album called "Voice Memos" with an "Artist Name" of whatever your iPhone's name is. If you have not turned on WiFi Syncing, you'll need to use a USB connection to your Mac, but if you turn on WiFi syncing, the memos will show up automatically.


To turn on WiFi sycning, connect your iPhone to your Mac. The phone icon will appear in iTunes. Select the icon and then click on "Summary" under "Settings" on the left. Scroll down until you see "Options" and then make sure your phone is set to "Automatically synch when this iPhone is connected" and "Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi".

Which OS X version do you have?  The newest version has the Voice Memos.App included.  Older versions don't have it.

The Voice Memos App was only available on modern MacOS releases .. beyond MacOS Mojave 10.14x upward when we tried this.  But was able to export voice memos from iPad to be used in other apps.  Is the OS updated?  I'm not here often, but hope it helps some.

Thanks guys. I have High Sierra 10.13.6.

I'll update to the latest OS later, thank you.

@will, thank you for the detailed reply. I would like if I didn't have to rely on having to connect my device via iTunes each time I want to get the voice memo, but appreciate your reply, thanks.

As long as you turn on WiFi syncing, you won't have to physically connect via a USB cable. You may have to do it the first time in order to get iTunes to recognize the device and allow you to access/change the setting, but after that it should sync anytime both have WiFi.

If you're not ready to upgrade to Mojave (10.14), I think it might be easier to "share" your Voice Memo to your Notes and let that synchronize through iCloud.  iTunes is still more steps and you have to be on the same network as your computer.

Thanks guys. Is there any major downside to upgrading your Mac OS?

HDD space is a consideration upgrading

Mojave doesn't take up much more space, IF you delete the installer - which runs about 8GB  - afterwards. If you have any apps that you are "business dependent" on such as Adobe Products, QuickBooks, etc., you may want to just check compatibility between the version of that product that you have and Mojave. In general, Mojave seems slightly faster and I like most of the features.

It depends on whether you have any Apps that are OS specific.  However, most Apps that work in High Sierra will work in Mojave.  Most of the apps tied to older OS X are tied to much older versions.  Since you're on High Sierra already, there should be some improvements.

https://www.techcompose.com/macos-mojave-vs-macos-high-sierra-should-you-upgrade-to-macos-mojave/
https://macpaw.com/how-to/mojave-vs-high-sierra

It's also mostly been my personal experience that the even numbered major versions were/are more stable or better than the odd numbers.  The odd numbers seem to be feature introductions and partial beta releases, although it got better later.  It's like the early Star Trek movies.
10.4 Tiger
10.6 Snow Leopard - Last dual platform support version before they only supported Intel.
10.8 Mountain Lion
10.10 Yosemite
10.12 SIerra
10.14 Mojave

10.5 Leopard <- Introduced new features that were fixed in Snow Leopard
10.7 Lion <- first online purchase available and it costs money.  Everything after this became "free"
10.9 Mavericks <- Piece of crud that caused many reboots, SMC resets, PRAM resets until El Capitan fixed the issues.  Bloated RAM usage.
10.11 El Capitan. <- no major improvements, and somewhat of an exception in this list.
10.13 High Sierra <- first forced APFS and features that weren't complete.  Wasn't worth migrating to yet.

I kept a Snow Leopard Mac for a while because of the PowerPC architecture and I still have a system with El Capitan.  Each OS X after Mavericks improved memory handling and cause less RAM bloat.

Thanks for the detailed help guys