Savable (and syncable) memos on iPhone?

I've seen this asked before but no good answer. All that is stopping me from throwing away my Palm is finding a way to store a few dozen memos I keep on it (SSNs, passport nos, FF nos, etc). It would be good to be able to update and sync them but lacking that I'd just like to find a way to put them on the iPhone without typing them into Notes. Any ideas? I know I can email them to myself as an attachment, but then won't I have to first put them all into one document and then have a live internet connection to access them? Thx
iPhone 8GB

MacWorld posted a suggested "workaround" until Apple provides this feature.
Simply create a "bogus" contact in your address book, copy and paste whatever text document you wish into the "notes" section of the contact, then sync.
I am using this to carry a list of all my DVDs with me - which I invariably need when I'm at the store and can't remember whether or not I already bought a movie, or which season of a TV show, etc.
On the iPhone, the contact screen wont show very long documents, but if you press the notes field and enter "edit" mode, then you can scroll through the entire document.
It's a workaround anyways, but a welcome one, since this was something my old 3G iPod did for me that I really wanted on the iPhone as well. Mission accomplished for now.

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I'm a longtime Palm OS user but am contemplating a switch to the new iPhone. As a Palm user, I rely heavily on to-dos (tasks) and memos (notes). I sync my Treo with two different computers and update content both on the Treo and on Palm Desktop.
I see from the discussions that there's no to-do application on the iPhone and no way to sync notes.
What workarounds do iPhone owners use for creating and syncing to-do lists and notes? And, if there are Palm-to-iPhone converts out there, how does your iPhone workaround compare with the Palm experience?
Thanks very much.

I posted this on another thread, but hoping to get more feedback here.
For a few months now I've had the iphone. Had previously used Palm desktop and a Palm III (ancient, I know) but it all worked! I could do a GLOBAL search of the Palm database for any address, any phone #, any calendar item or note category, and quickly FIND IT on either the desktop or the Palm III. This is "must have"
stuff for a service business in the field.
On the iphone, so far it isn't possible to cut and past, search, or integrate the address book search with a search in ical or the other databases. The point of having the iphone is that it syncs to my mac so I don't have to haul the laptop around. All the enterprise features with a microsoft server and push technology is overkill for me. It seems that if the OSX environment were integrated on the iphone as on the desktop, with the addition of notes and to dos, it would serve well for any small business.
My service business is SMALL. I have about 1,000 contacts and 8 years of calendar.
Wondering if the upgrade will include better integration? Oh, and while we're at it, why not voice recognition and a movie/audio recording app. Standard features for any smart phone, no?

Going from iphone 4s to 6 want to know if i can save and or tran my voicemails and voice memos to put on my new phone

going from 4s to 6 can I save my favorite voice mails and voice memos to put on my new phone via pc or cloud

If you are planning to set up your iPhone 6 by restoring the iCloud backup from the iPhone 4s, your Visual Voice Mails and Voice Memos will be restored.

Iphone 6 (Verizon,64GB,space gray) microphone works for text dictation and Siri but stopped working for calls and voice memos.

My iphone 6 the micorphone has stoppped working unless I speak loudly right into it and its still not clear during calls and voice memos. But it works just fine for Siri and text dictation. I use the earbuds for work so not sure how long its been going on. Only change is I updated to iOS 8.1.3. Not sure if I should exchange my phone or if its a software glitch since the same mic seems to work for some things and not others. Any ideas would be apreciated.
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Try to reset the phone by holding the sleep and home button for about 10sec, until the Apple logo comes back again. You will not lose any data by resetting, but it can cure some glitches.
If this does not help, setting it up as new device would be the next step:
How to erase your iOS device and then set it up as a new device or restore it from backups

The last time I synced my iphone with itunes, I lost all my contacts, photos, calendar, and voice memos. This time I lost all my apps and the music isn't synced. Also, I just bought an ipad, and it won't sync at all.

The last time I synced my iphone to itunes, I lost all my contact info, photos, calendar, and voice memos. This time I still have them, but I lost all the apps I had downloaded. Also, I just bought an ipad, and itunes does not recognize it.

Re: That garbage is unreadable.
If you really want help, stop messing with the fonts and post so that others can read and offer suggestions.
Or better yet... try a search, I'm certain you'll find a solution to whatever issue you're experiencing.
I have found that many times it is the things that make you most angry that push you to action. This was the case here. Thank you for causing me to get so angry that I found the answer myself.

A friend of mine sent me a voice memo via text message, it shows and plays in my iPhone as a quicktime voice clip: So how do i import the clip to my iMac?????? When I sync my iPhone it does not show as a voice memo, I tried emailing it but the email come

A friend of mine sent me a voice memo via text message, it shows and plays in my iPhone as a quicktime voice clip: So how do i import the clip to my iMac?????? When I sync my iPhone it does not show as a voice memo, I tried emailing it but the email comes through empty. Please help.

Copy that voice memo, create a new email and paste it and send it to yourself! You can save it to your computer now and send it to someone else

How do you put Voice Memos from iPhone to computer?

I've had a very long chat with Apple Support and they don't seem to know the answer.
My voice memos are important and are above 30MB so emailing isn't an option.
I first synced my memos to my iTunes as usual (music doesn't sync with the library, bear in mind) and expected all my memos to appear, however they didn't. They appeared in the "on my device section" but I couldn't play them as the exclamation point appeared.
Under Apple's instruction I updated to the new iTunes, and now the previous memos don't even appear in the "on my device" section. They said it's likely to do with ios 8. The memos I want were created in ios 8. And now they've randomly been duplicated on my phone so I have two of each?
So after this iTunes update, I made a new memo, which again was duplicated, but now appears in the "on my device" part.
What do I do to put the memos onto my computer somehow? I really need them!

The following is pre iOS 8 but may have something that you missed: http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iosapps/transfer-voice-memos-from-iphone-to-com puter-3526349/
One new thing I learned from it is that Evernote which I use for keeping some text notes in sync among various devices has a voice memo capability. Those would be automatically transferred. Here is some more information on that if you want to check it out for future use: https://evernote.com/contact/support/kb/#!/article/28606837

Transfer voice memos from iPhone 5 to mac iTunes without replacing all music on iPhone

I have some new voice memos on my iPhone 5 as well as selected music from my iTunes.
I want to transfer the new voice memos to iTunes on my mac but it appears that it will since my itunes library to my phone.
The iPhone is connected to the mac. i am in iTunes and I go to the Device listed as iPhone and click on music.
When I click on the box that says Sync Music, I get a message that says
Are you sure you want to remove existing music, movies etc from this iPhone and sun with intones library...
I click cancel instead of remove and sync. In the sync music window in light grey I can see tha Selected playlists, artist and albums and genres is selected and include voice memos is checked.
On summary I have Manually Manage Music and Videos checked.
I just got the phone and i see on p 110 of the manual how to move recordings to your computer and it isn't doing what I want.
I would like to move the voicemails to the computer without syncing the library and I would like to manually move some songs from iphone to iTunes on the mac.
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I think you need to find a third-party tool to copy voice memos from iPhone to Mac because iTunes can't do it. And the only option Apple offers is to backup your iPhone, either to iTunes or iCloud. However, by doing this, voice memos are packed into the backup file package. You can't view them until restore your iPhone with the backup file.

Recover deleted voice memos on iphone

Hi there,
I wanted to trim 20 secs off a voice memo and deleted the 70min after instead. Besides paying for software to use via the mac to recover the file I wondered if there was a simple process via the iphone? btw the icloud voice memos was not on?
Cheers
Dom

I think the simplest way is to retrieve deleted voice memos on iPhone through computer, no apps on iPhone available now to do it.

How do I transfer Voice memos from iPhone to my iMac?

I have recordings made on my iPhone using Voce Memos, since updating to OS10.8 these no longer sync to my iMac when using iTunes. The help files for iTunes bear no relation to the screens that iTunes produces and there seems no direct way of transfering my files. Any ideas?
Mike Butler

iTunes should automatically sync voice memos to your iTunes library when you connect iPhone to your computer. This lets you listen to voice memos on your computer and provides a backup if you delete them from iPhone.
Voice memos are synced to the Voice Memos playlist. iTunes creates the playlist if it doesn’t exist. When you sync voice memos to iTunes, they remain in the Voice Memos application until you delete them. If you delete a voice memo on iPhone, it isn’t deleted from the Voice Memos playlist in iTunes. However, if you delete a voice memo from iTunes, it is deleted from iPhone the next time you sync with iTunes.

How do I put voice memos from iphone to ipad. They are already in Mac as a playlist, how do I put voice memos from iphone to ipad. They are already in Mac as a playlist

I can get my voice memos from my iphone onto itunes on my Mac but when I sync my ipad, it doesn't sync. So I can only listen on my iphone using the voice memos app, which is very frustrating, since you cannot pause it and restart or gets interrupted when you get a call or on my computer. I would love to review some lectures I have taped on my ipad. Any way of doing this

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How to copy (edited) voice memos from iphone to itunes

This is a similar question to one that I have already asked, perhaps simpler, though. Imagine I have just recorded a voice memo on iphone: how do I copy it to itunes? Is it done via backup or via sync, and with what options turned on/off? Does it work even if I edit (trim and/or rename) the voice memo on the phone before copying it?
Thank you.

I was having a similar issue and I if I understand correctly, I think this is a solution for others..
in itunes with iphone plugged in, go to summary tab. click "manually manage music.." and apply. Then go to "on this phone tab" and you can actually physically delete the voice memo playlist or individual voice memos. This appears to have finally worked for me..or at least the voice memos playlist doesn't persist under the "on this phone tab" anymore....not sure it made a huge difference in my iphone available space.

Cannot delete old voice memos from iPhone 4S, ios 6.0.1

So I noticed today while doing some housecleaning in iTunes and on my iPhone that I had three voice memos in my iphone that didnt get deleted (see picture below).
So naturally I go and attempt to delete those (because they are just taking up space (I know it's not much, but why have them if I am not using them?). Weird things is, I cannot delete these at all. I highlight all three and hit the delete key, no good. I right click and these are my only options:
The thing is, I go into my voice memos options in the main iTunes library, nothing is there.
As well, there is nothing in my iPhone's voice memo library. Also, the voice memo folder in my iTunes folder is empty.
Any suggestions to try and remove these off the device? I've tried everything I can think of to try and get rid of them.
Thanks.

I cannot see your screen shots for some reason, but here's a suggestion:
Open iTunes on your computer, look at your playlists there. Go to your "Voice Memos" playlist, delete all its contents, and then sync your iPhone to iTunes.

No voice memos after iPhone 6 sync

I just backed up my iPhone 4 and set up my iPhone 6, and none of my voice memos are appearing on the iPhone 6. Any suggestions?

It will happen automatically. iTunes always syncs voice memos to your iTunes library when you connect iPhone to your computer. All you can do is delete them or ignore them.
Keep in mind that if you delete a voice memo on iPhone, it isn’t deleted from the Voice Memos playlist in iTunes. However, if you delete a voice memo from iTunes, it is deleted from iPhone the next time you sync with iTunes.
The "Include voice memos" button in the iTunes Music pane for your phone is only for syncing your voice memos playlist back to the phone.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/how-to/#voice-memos.syncing-voice-memos

Why is the mic not working working on speaker mode, even though siri and voice memos are working?

I bought my iphone 4s from canada about less than a month ago. It worked perfectly fine, until i recently discovered that the mic on speaker mode stopped working. That means, when i speak to someone on speaker during a call, they are unable to hear me.However Siri and voice memos are working fine. I could initially face-time but now i cant. I have also tried restoring my iphone a few times.
As i am based out of india, I contacted apple in India, they refused to touch the phone as it was purchased in Canada and the warranty is apparently applicable only in the country of purchase. I can in no way go back to canada to get the phone replaced. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can resolve this? Shouldnt apple be able to get this sorted since its a brand new phone under warranty?

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