Where do I find saved audio messages on my iPhone?

You have a problem with your iPhone.

Not sure how to fix it? Well, you're not alone - a lot of iPhone users have run into this problem at some point in their lives. Luckily, we're here to help you out. In this post, we'll show you how to get back your audio messages from the iCloud backup.

If you're running iOS 9.0 or later, you should be able to find the saved audio messages that you accidentally deleted from the iCloud backup.

The saved audio messages that are not synced from your phone. The iCloud backup is not only good at saving your data, but it also saves your audio messages. That is why if you lose them, you might see a bunch of messages appear on the iCloud.com portal. The saved messages will look like this:

To view the messages, you have to sign into your iCloud account and click Manage Storage, followed by clicking on the Audio Messages option. After you click on that, you can access all your saved messages. If you didn't know, you can restore your audio messages from the iCloud backup or restore all your iCloud data from the iCloud backup. We've shown you how to restore from iCloud backup earlier.

The saved audio messages on iOS devices are automatically deleted when they expire. In order to get those audio messages back, you need to manually restore them from the iCloud backup. Here's how to do it:

Log in to iCloud. Click Manage Storage. Then click on the name of your iCloud backup. After the message appears, click on the name of the backup and select View media messages. Restore the lost audio messages from iCloud.com Alternatively, if you want to restore your lost audio messages from iCloud.com, you need to sign into iCloud.com and open the Audio Messages section. You'll be able to see all the messages you have on the iCloud backup.

Click on the Open button next to the messages you want to restore. Then click on the blue Restore button.

Once that's done, it's time to enter the details for your phone.

Where can I find my voice messages on my iPhone?

By the time the new year rolls around, you'll be asking yourself where all of those voicemails are that are floating around on your iPhone.

If it's not on your voicemail service, you're going to have to spend a bit of time digging for that information on your own, and once you've found it, you'll probably want to listen to all of them. Well, you're in luck. There's an app that can make your life easier than ever before.

We tested the new free Voicemail app, so you don't have to do the work by yourself. You'll be able to call numbers with any number of different dialing patterns (1-2-3, 1-800-111-22, etc.) right from the app, all without an additional charge. This gives you the freedom to choose which caller ID system you want to use, but also means you'll have to remember a bit of information to use the app effectively. For example, if you call somebody from a number with a 1-800 prefix, you'll need to choose a custom greeting option (the voicemail defaults to an automated message, but you can change that to anything you'd like.)

If your iPhone doesn't have a voicemail app installed yet, there's no need to worry about that, though: simply call any number, then tap the Voicemail icon in the upper-right hand corner of your iPhone's display, and the Voicemail app will automatically launch. You'll also need to pay attention to the call status indicators on the lower-right side of the display so you know whether to answer the call or just let it ring. If you leave a voicemail message, your phone will vibrate to let you know that it's been received and what time you should expect the call back.

If you'd prefer to keep things simple, you can always just call the voicemail number directly using your iPhone's keypad. While were testing the Voicemail app, we called both a friend and the phone of our family lawyer, both who weren't overly impressed with the simplicity.

We also tried out this fun new feature of letting you play your voicemail messages out loud. Just press the big black Play/Pause button in the upper-right hand corner of your screen and the messages will play out loud for you as they land on the voicemail system.

Where are voice recordings stored on an iPhone?

How can I view them on my Mac?

How can I convert them to a format that is more friendly to iTunes or my computer?

I'm not sure if this question is actually specific to an iPhone, but I think there are some Apple-specific answers, and maybe someone can point me in the right direction? By default, iPhone voice recordings are stored on the iPhone as wav files (ie wave files). When you take a voice recording, it's stored at your iPhone's internal storage, in the "Voice Memos" folder.

Once you have recorded the voice memo, you can save it on the iPhone to some other location. You can't copy it directly to your computer. If you do so, the iPhone will just play the file for you, instead of transcribing it. You can choose to save the voice recording as a wav file, and then you can load that file into your computer using iTunes, or you can use a software such as Audacity, or any other audio editor to load the file into your computer, where you can then transcribe the voice recording.

A voice recording may be saved as a .m4a file. This is an Apple proprietary file format, and it is not compatible with the standard Windows sound files. If you want to play back a .m4a file in Windows Media Player, you have to convert the file to a standard .mp3 format.