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How to Record Audio with your Phone

How to Record Audio with your Phone

How to Record Audio with your IPhone

Voice Memo App - FREE

A quick word about audio codecs: The iPhone’s Voice Memo app uses the MPEG-4 codec to record and playback audio files — and compresses these files using the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) codec or the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC). You want the Lossless codec, to ensure the highest possible quality.

To get the highest quality audio with Voice Memo: 

  • Go to Settings > Voice Memos > Audio Quality and select LOSSLESS

  • Open your Voice Memo App
Press the big red Record button to start your audio recording

When you are finished recording, select the three ellipses “...”

button to open up the menu options for this audio file: