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I've got at least 50 voice memos on my iPhone, and would like to transfer ALL of them to my (recently expanded) iCloud folder, and then to my mini-Mac, so I can deal with them on a full-size desktop computer.
I have figured out how to transfer 1 voice memo at a time.
The question is, can anyone tell me how to do a batch-processing function, to transfer ALL of them, in one big set?
iPhone 6, iOS 12
There was a bit of a trick to get this to work. I followed all of the help instructions, but could not figure out where to find the *.ma4 files on iCloud. The trick is that the transfer happens within the Voice Memos app, not as files in Finder. The same Voice Memos app that runs on the iPhone is also installed as a utility on the Mac. I guess they assume everyone knows that, but I did not. Run the Voice Memos app on both devices to transfer the recordings.
Once you enable Voice Memos under iCloud Drive on your iPhone (as per the instructions in this thread), all of the recordings on your cell phone show up in the Voice Memos app on your Mac. From there, you can simply drag and drop each recording as an ma4 file to wherever you choose. Still has to be done one recording at a time as far as I can tell, not "batch transfer" as you requested, but the drag and drop is pretty quick and easy.
Uploading voice memos from someone else's iPhone is also possible, but requires "Sharing" them one at a time from the iPhone. Doing that via AirDrop is the fastest, but again no batch transfer.
Perhaps a more experienced user can comment on how "batch transfer" might be done.
I'm the guy that asked the original Q. I'm trying all the stuff recommended above (many thanks for that), but I keep running into recommend options that are not available, to me. Such as, when I connect my phone to my MiniMac and find it in iTunes, there is no "Voice memo" option, in the list it offers me.
A possible problem I should have mentioned earlier -- I still use an iPhone 6 (with iOS 12.3.1). Ever since hearing about the Apple/Qualcomm patent battles, and while waiting for 5G, I've been holding off getting an update. Are there any alternate options I should try, when using an iPhone 6?
Second note - now that I've started paying for a 50 Gb iCloud account, I'm backing up and syncing everything I can, from my phone. Got 4 minutes left (or so it says, but it's been saying that for at least 5-8 minutes now) , on the latest "back up everything" attempt, to find out whether that will work . . .
Barring that, I I've only about a mile from an Apple Store. I'll try there, if the above doesn't work.
But, hey, many thanks for the suggestions. They've gotten me started . . .
Okay, after backing up everything possible, to my iCloud drive, from my phone, after making sure "Voice memos" was indeed checked "yes" at every possible location in my iPhone settings, the cluster is still not there, on my iCloud Drive. The only 2 voice memos that are there are the ones I sent there, individually.
So . . . it's off to the store, to see if someone there can help me, by actually doing it, using my phone.
If they can, I'll post how they did it.
Can I "batch transfer" all of my voice memos to iCloud?
