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iPad User Guide

Play a recording in Voice Memos on iPad

You can play audio you recorded on your iPad using the playback controls.

You can also adjust the playback options to change playback speed, reduce background noise, and fill in silences.

Note: Changing these settings doesn’t affect the recording itself. The setting you choose for a recording stays with that specific recording and is applied each time you play the recording. It doesn’t apply to other recordings.

Tip: While the recording is open, you can tap its name to rename it.

Change the playback speed

You can play a recording at a faster or slower speed.

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

  2. In the list of recordings, tap the recording you want to play.

  3. Tap 👁 the Options button
    ,     then drag the slider toward the tortoise 👁 Image
    for a slower speed, or toward the rabbit 👁 Image
    for a faster speed.

  4. Tap 👁 the Options button
    ,     then tap 👁 the Play button
    to play the recording.

Turn on Studio Voice to reduce background noise and reverb

On supported models, you can play back Spatial Audio files recorded on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e.

You can turn on Studio Voice to automatically reduce background noise and reverb on your Spatial Audio recordings, to make it sound more like you’re recording in a professional studio.

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

  2. In the list of recordings, tap the recording you want to play, then tap 👁 the Options button
    .

  3. Turn on Studio Voice, then drag the slider to increase or decrease the effect and background noise levels.

  4. Tap 👁 the Play button
    to play the recording.

Enhance a recording

When playing a Mono or Stereo recording, you can enhance it to reduce background noise and echo when you play the recording.

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

  2. In the list of recordings, tap the recording you want to enhance.

  3. Tap 👁 the Options button
    ,     then turn on Enhance Recording.

  4. Tap 👁 the Options button
    ,     then tap 👁 the Play button
    to play the recording.

Skip over gaps when playing back a recording

Voice Memos can analyze your Mono and Stereo recordings and automatically skip over gaps when playing them.

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

  2. Tap the recording you want to play.

  3. Tap 👁 the Options button
    ,     then turn on Skip Silence.

  4. Tap 👁 the Options button
    ,     then tap 👁 the Play button
    to play the recording.

Reset the playback options

You can return all the playback options to their original settings at the same time.

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

  2. Tap the recording you want to turn off playback options for.

  3. Tap 👁 the Options button
    at the top of the screen, then tap Reset.

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