[Updated] A Step-by-step Guide on How to Record Voice on iPhone Easily

When you are making the meeting minutes or taking notes from a public lecture, it can be hard to memorize all the details with a logical shorthand. But recording the content in audio will save you a lot of trouble. To capture a passing though or important phone call, you can record voice on iPhone.

This post offers you a bite of cherry to learn how to capture the iPhone sound and speaker's voice. You can get many useful tips and excellent iPhone voice recorders.

• Part 1: How to Record iPhone Voice with Local Screen Recording
• Part 2: How to Record iPhone Voice with Built-in Voice Memo
• Part 3: 3 Best iPhone Voice Recorder Apps (Custom Speakers & Audio Format)
• Part 4: FAQs of Recording iPhone Voice

Part 1: How to Record iPhone Voice with Local Screen Recording

iPhone has its built-in iOS screen recorder in iOS 11/12/13/14/15/16. In order to record audio on iPhone with the default iOS screen recorder, you need to set it up first. Here is the detailed process of how to record audio with iOS screen recorder.

Step 1Enable the Screen Recording feature

Go to Settings app and then tap on Control Center from the drop-down list. Scroll down to access Screen Recording under the MORE CONTROLS tab.

Click the green + icon to add it to Control Center. (For some old iPhones, you can visit Customize Controls in the Control Center and enable Screen Recording)

Step 2Start recording via the Control Panel

Return to the home screen of iPhone. Tap on the Screen Record icon on the Control Center. The program will start to record iPhone audio three seconds later.

To capture your iPhone sound, you should long press on the Screen Record icon and then tap the Microphone icon to turn it on to record your voice from the microphone.

Step 3Stop recording and save the video

When everything is done, you can press the Screen Recording icon again on the Control Center. Or long-press the red section on the top and choose the Stop button. After that, you can get the audio file in Camera Roll and Video albums.

Part 2: How to Record iPhone Voice with Built-in Voice Memo

Voice Memo is another built-in iPhone voice recorder app that allows you to capture iPhone voice, speech, and other audio files with the built-in microphone. Voice Memo is a very effective way to record voice notes. The followings are the steps about how to record iPhone voice.

Step 1Launch the Voice Memo app

Open Voice Memo on the iPhone home screen. If you don't find it in the home interface, open the App Store and input Voice Memo to get it.

(With older iPhones with a Home button, you can hold this button to launch Siri, then say Record a Voice Memo to open the Voice Memo)

Step 2Start recording

Click the red Record icon at the bottom to start recording. You can pause or resume freely with the buttons below.

Step 3Stop recording

When you get the ideal part, click the Done button and you can view the recording in the list.

Step 4Edit your recording

To further edit and share your audio recording, you can click the Three Dots icon of the target audio and choose to copy, share and edit the sound as you like.

Part 3: 3 Best iPhone Voice Recorder Apps (Custom Speakers & Audio Format)

Despite the convenience of the local iPhone voice recorders, you can't change the audio speaker and audio formats freely. To break the limits of default settings on iPhone audio, here we introduce 3 more tools to help you get a professional sound recording with ease.

Top 1. Apeaksoft Phone Mirror

Apeaksoft Phone Mirror is the most popular pick to record iPhone voice. This is a professional iPhone recorder for high-quality videos and audio. All iPhone users can personalize the audio files on resolution, speaker, output format and more to get a perfect result.

Price: Free trial is available.

Compatible Device: iPhone, Android

How to record iPhone voice via Apeaksoft Phone Mirror

Step 1 Download and install Apeaksoft Phone Mirror on your PC. Choose iOS Mirror to enter.

Step 2 Connect your iPhone to this PC via WiFi or USB connection. Follow the instructions and wait until you get a successful connection.

Step 3 Tap the Record icon and customize the settings for your audio recording. After that, you can click the Start Recording icon below the mirrored screen and capture the iPhone sound freely.

Top 2. Voice Recorder Pro

Voice Recorder Pro is a professional and free voice recorder app for iPhones. You can record voice memos and on-site sounds of unlimited length with high quality. You can also get the iPhone voice in MP4, MPEG, and WAV formats directly.

Price: Free (Include in-app purchase)

Compatible Device: iPhone

Top 3. Voice Recorder & Audio Editor

Voice Recorder & Audio Editor is a wonderful iOS app that allows you to record iPhone voice without limitations. It provides a free version and a premium version. For the free version, you can switch audios between five audio formats, WiFi transfer, upload audio, get the password to protect your recording and more.

Price: Free (Include in-app purchase)

Compatible Device: iPhone