Speaker 1: So when you get a new iPhone or a new iPad, Apple usually pre-installs all of their native applications. And some of those, yes, are the camera app and the photos app and the phone app, but a lot of them are actually things like GarageBand and iMovie and the iWork suite, Reminders, and a lot of other applications that usually go unused. So most people just tuck them away in a folder, throw it in their app library, or completely delete them to make room for other applications. But there's one Apple native app that I think goes under the radar, is very underrated and goes relatively unnoticed. And it's something that I use on a daily basis, and that has to be the Voice Memo app. And on the surface, yes, you just turn it on, record your voice as maybe set a reminder to maybe remember something in the future, but this Voice Memo app is actually extremely powerful. And some of the features kind of compete with those other third-party ones that are meant to be more than just a Voice Memos application. So in this video, I wanna highlight some of its key features and walk you guys through exactly what you can do on this Voice Memos app, because I think you're gonna be relatively surprised. So without further ado, let's talk about Apple's Voice Memo app and walk you through everything that it can do. Let's get into it. Okay, everyone, let's get right into this video. And as you see, I got the Voice Memos app right here, and we're gonna start relatively simple. So the first thing I'm gonna make sure you do is that when you open up the app for the first time, it's gonna ask you if you wanna share your location. I'm gonna recommend that you do. And the reason I recommend that you do is because if you forget to actually name your voice recording and your location isn't shared, it's just gonna show up as recording and then a number next to it. Versus if you actually share your location and then you don't name your actual voice memo, then it's actually gonna name it based on the location that you're at with numbers attached to it. So here, these are actually names of locations. This one is a renamed one, but you can see these are all names of locations and things like that until after you end up actually renaming it. So just a little tidbit right there. So if I started recording, let it do its thing, you can see that immediately it's going to name it after a certain address that's on here. I'm gonna block it out for that purpose, but you can actually see exactly what's going on down to the actual unit of where I am, which is kind of cool to see. And then to get into actually how to rename it. So let's say I am talking, I am actually recording something. If I actually swipe up, you get a much better view of what you're actually dealing with. So if you wanna rename it, it's very easy to rename. You just tap up here, name it into whatever you want, press enter, you can pause it right here to make sure it's done. And then if you swipe down, you can see that it's named right then and there, press done, and now you have that voice recording. And then to continue on, if you do, again, start a recording, swipe up, like I mentioned earlier, this is the view that you're gonna wanna be in in order to see what exactly is going on from a voice memo standpoint and how loud you are, how soft it is, how often you're talking so you can make your cuts. And then you can actually just pause it right here if you do wanna pause it, which is great to see. And then also, if you need to resume it, you can just resume it right then and there to start talking again. And you can see that it breaks it up into two sections. So if I pause it again and then resume, you can see that it's broken up once more to make sure you know like, hey, you paused it in this instance, but you're recording again. So now that we're aware of how to actually do a recording, now let's talk about actually editing this recording. So the first thing I'm gonna show you is, if you are live recording, you're gonna swipe up again, make sure that you're talking, and then you pause it, you actually get this little button right here in the top right-hand corner that shows up, and that is your trim button. So if you tap on that, you can actually trim the actual voice recording. So let's say I wanna cut out this whole front piece. So I grab this, I move it over, go right there, I press trim, and then you can see that it does shorten the actual voice memo completely. And you press save, and then you're good to go. Now you have your actual voice recording, and then you can still resume after the fact. But let's say you have an older voice recording, so you click on here, click on your three dots, and you get a bunch of options here. And what you're gonna wanna do is actually edit your recording, and that is where you're actually able to then see exactly what's going on. So you can press the trim button again. Let's say I wanna cut out all this dead space. I'm gonna cut it from here because I'm gonna show a different feature off with the rest of it. So we'll go here, we'll press trim, we'll save it, and then you're good to go. Swipe down, and then you press done, and you're all set. And also one other tidbit, because this is part of the Apple ecosystem, all these voice recordings are gonna show up on all of your iDevices that are signed into the same iCloud. So this will show up on your iPhone, this will show up on your iPad. If you have a secondary iPhone, it'll show up there, which is great to have, especially if you're in a pickle, maybe you forgot where you recorded it, what is being recorded, it's all great to see. The next thing I wanna quickly show off is the ability to actually replace certain portions of the recording, which I think is a great little feature. So if I go into the three dots, then click edit recording, you can actually see that this is now a replace button. So if I scroll along here, and let's say I wanna replace maybe the very end of it, to let myself know like, hey, this is a recording that I wanna do something with, I go here, I press replace, and now it's gonna start to go over that last recording with what I'm currently saying, and it's gonna continue to keep going until I pause it, press done, and then you're good to go. So now that portion is now being saved, it's being uploaded, make sure that those changes are set, and then you're all set with the new replacement of that actual recording. So this next feature is what really sets the Voice Memos app apart from pretty much any other Voice Memos app, or the fact that it can do this built in natively is kind of nice. So go into one of your voice recordings, click on the three dots, go to edit recording, and then you're gonna see this little toggle over here. This is kind of like filter button, we're gonna click on that, and then you're gonna see a couple options. So first, you can change the speed of your actual recording. So if I move this over, if I wanna make it extremely fast, and then I press play, it's gonna roll through extremely quickly. So if I go back, I can actually go back to the normal pace, which is good to see, but then I can also skip silences, which is great. So if I go here, you can see that this voice recording has a few silences that I put in here on purpose to let you guys, to show you exactly what it's like. If I press play, it's gonna automatically skip that silence as much as it can, which is great, because again, it's gonna save you a ton of time. And then also you have the option to enhance recording. So if you have a little bit of background noise, if you sound a little bit muffled, or if there's something going on that, again, gets in the way of the actual recording, this should actually help out a ton. So enhancing that recording will help you if you are editing these voice memos, and you just wanna have a simple voice memo editor that can get the job done for the most part. And I've used, again, the voice memo for multiple different occasions. I use it for voiceovers, I recorded a podcast segment on here. Again, if you have the correct microphone, or even using the onboard microphone, if you hold it close enough to your mouth and there isn't a lot of noise in the background, it can also completely get the job done. And then the last little tidbit that I will mention is that the voice recording app acts like Android, the voice recording app acts like any other app. So if I go on here, I delete it, you actually recover that deleted file by going back, go to recently deleted, and then recover those files, which is great to see. And then also, it'll save your watch recordings on here. So if you have your voice memo app on your Apple Watch, and you record using your Apple Watch, because let's say you wanna remember to get bananas at the grocery store, and this is how you do it, then by all means, that is where you get to go with the watch recording. So that just about does it for the voice memos app. As you saw, you can do a lot more with the voice memos app than just record your voice, maybe for a reminder, or maybe you're in a lecture hall and you're actually putting it there to maybe hear your teachers, and then run it back later on. But this thing works extremely well. You have your cut and paste features, you're able to enhance your voice, you're able to go back to one, and then go and voice over a different voice that you wanna actually go over. So there's a bunch of different features that the voice memo app just goes, again, relatively unnoticed and not a lot of people use it. I personally use it for all of my voiceovers. I plug in this microphone via lightning cable to my iPhone, and then I just start doing voiceovers whenever I need to. And I edit those voiceovers directly in the voice memos app, so when I import it into my video editor, the voiceover is just already edited and ready to go for me. But that is gonna do it, everybody. If you did make it to the end, leave a little dolphin in the comments down below. And leave a comment down below if you knew that this voice memo app actually could do everything that I mentioned. And leave a comment down below of some other iPhone apps or native applications that Apple creates that goes relatively unused and under the radar. Because not a lot of people talk about those second and third tier Apple native apps, like the Utility Folder, GarageBand, iMovie, and things like that. But that is gonna do it, everybody. If you wanna watch more macOS, iOS, or iPadOS videos, click on one of these right here. And until next time, I'm Fernando, and I'm outta here. Peace.