I transferred a recorded iPhone (iOS 18) conversation to my iMac (macOS Ventura) via the Notes app where it shows up as M4A:
instead of like this:
What happened? Where are these recorded iPhone conversations stored when they are transferred to my iMac?
[Edited by Moderator]
iPhone XR, iOS 18
Have you looked in the Downloads folder?
Give this a try: download and run Find Any File to search for any files ending with ".m4v".
1 - Name ends with .m4v
FAF can search areas that Spotlight can't like invisible folders, system folders and packages.
Then you can search for the latest .m4v file and it should be the recorded call. 🤞
Thank you, Old Toad.
I was able to track down all the .m4a files in the Finder. Unfortunately the file names (“Call with so-and-so” or “voicemail-”). and their creation/modification dates and times are not the dates/times when they were created on the iPhone; they are the dates/times when the Note containing the .m4a file was modified on the iMac.
The file that I originally posted about has the correct suffix but the wrong (red Music) icon so that I can’t play the recorded conversation from inside its container Note as I can other Recorded Calls by clicking the blue triangle icon. Back in the good old 1990s, we had an Apple utility, ResEdit, for fixing this type of error. I still have the book and the installer diskette (1991). If only . . .
A recorded iPhone conversation saved in incorrect format to iMac
