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iPad User Guide

Organize recordings in Voice Memos on iPad

You can mark audio recordings as favorites and organize your recordings into folders.

Note: Apple Watch recordings, recently deleted recordings, and favorites are grouped into Smart Folders, which automatically gather files by type and subject matter.

Mark recordings as favorites

  1. Go to the Voice Memos app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. In the list of recordings, do any of the following:

    • Tap the recording you want to mark as a favorite, then tap 👁 the Favorite button
      above the waveform.

    • Tap Edit above the list of recordings, select one or more recordings, tap Move to Folder, then tap Favorites. (If there isn’t a Favorites folder, create one by entering Favorites in the field.)

Recordings marked as favorites automatically appear in the Favorites folder.

Organize recordings into folders

You can group related recordings together into folders so you can locate them easily.

  1. Go to the Voice Memos app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Edit above the list of recordings.

  3. Select one or more recordings, tap 👁 the Share button
    ,     tap Move to Folder, then choose a folder.

    To create a new folder, tap 👁 the New Folder button
    ,     type a name for the folder, then tap Save.

To view your folders, tap 👁 the Sidebar button
; tap a folder to check its contents.

To return to the list of recordings, tap All Recordings above the folders.

Delete or reorder folders

  1. Go to the Voice Memos app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap 👁 the Sidebar button
    to go to the list of folders.

  3. Tap Edit above the folders, then do any of the following:

  4. Tap Done.

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