Some users have reflected that they were puzzled by the deleted voice memos on iPhone. In some cases, the voice memos may be deleted accidentally and they now would like to recover deleted voice memos on iPhone. As an important app on iPhone, recorder app can allow users to record any kind of voice memos which could be played on iPhone. At the same time, if the iPhone could be synced with iTunes, then the voice memos could also be found in iTunes library. But if you have accidentally deleted some voice memos from iPhone, you would be wondering about how to get them back. In this article, we would introduce several ways to recover lost voice memos from iPhone

Method 1: Recover your voice memos from the Recently Deleted folder

If you have deleted your voice memos with accident, the first and most convenient way to turn to is to look your Recently Deleted folder on iPhone. Usually, the deleted voice memos could be kept in a specific folder, that is Recently Deleted folder which would keep these deleted voice memos for a certain amount of period before they would be completed removed from your iPhone. Therefore, next time, if you are worrying about the loss, just go to Recently Deleted folder to recover the deleted memo voices. The following tutorial would be helpful to you.

Step 1. Open your Voice Memos app on your iPhone where you can find many voice memos you have made in the list.

Step 2. Locate “Recently Deleted” folder by pulling down the memo list.

Step 3. Click the “Recently Deleted” folder and you can find your accidentally deleted voice memos. Then, what you only need to do is to locate the voice memos you would like to recover. Then click “Recover” button at the left bottom to recover the memo.

Step 4. Once clicked the “Recover” button, then there will be two options popping up on your iPhone, click the first option “Recover Recording” to recover the voice memo you like. Finally, your voice memo would be recovered then. But remember deleted recordings would only be available in the “Recently Deleted” folder for 30 days. If you miss the deadline, it can’t work.

Method 2: Recover your voice memos from your iTunes backups

When users lose their voice memos in their iPhone, they can have a look at their iTunes first, maybe they have synced the voice memos to iTunes, and the voice memos can be found in iTunes folder. If not, you may need to restore your iPhone with iTunes to recover deleted voice memos from iPhone. If you have updated your iPhone backup in iTunes, you will save the voice memos in iTunes backup as well, so you are able to get the lost voice memos back with iTunes.

Here an important tip for you is that if you would like to recover your voice memos from iTunes backups, then you current user data would be overlapped by the old iTunes backups you have made. Please make sure you would like to carry out this action. Furthermore, I will strongly recommend you to make a fresh backup for your iPhone to avoid any data losses. Once you are ready, you can follow the steps to recover voice memos on iPhone.

Step 1. Connect you iPhone to your computer.

Step 2. Open iTunes and select your iPhone on the iTunes main interface. Under the “Summary” tab, you can find the “Automatically Back Up” and “Manually Back Up and Restore” options. If you have made your determination to restore your iPhone, then click “Restore Backup” button to start the process.

Step 3. Once you have clicked the “Restore” button, the old iTunes user data including voice memos would be restored on your iPhone, so that you can find your deleted voice memos then. But here you should make sure that your old iTunes backup has contained the voice memos you deleted, or all the processes would be made in vain.

When the restoring process is done, you will get the backup contents in your iPhone. The voice memos should have been restored to your iPhone as well. However, as is known, there is chance that the iPhone users will lose the newly added data in their device if they haven’t updated their backup. At this moment, people will need a piece of iPhone data recovery software to recover deleted voice memos from iPhone backup.

Method 3: Recover your voice memos from your iCloud backups

Additionally, you can also recover you voice memos from you iCloud backups. But the premise is that you have already created an iCloud backup for your previous iPhone user data, including the deleted voice memos. Secondly, you should also be clear that you would be required to erase all the content and settings of your current phone so as to accomplish the iCloud backup recovery steps.

Just as mentioned above, be prepared that you have already created the new backups for your current iPhone so that you would not bear any losses for the missing user data. Once you decided to erase all the contents and settings on iPhone, the current user data information would be permanently removed from your phone. Well, if the deleted voice memos can’t be found in the “Recently Deleted” folder, this seems to an effective way to solve the problem. Follow the steps below and you can recover the lost voice memos on iPhone with ease and accuracy.

Step 1. Open iPhone and go to “Settings” > "General".

Step 2. Scroll down to the very bottom and you can find “Reset” option. “Erase All Content and Settings” would delete all the user data on your iPad and the related settings, but it would not make any changes to your iPad’s operating system. If you tap this option, your iPhone would be prompted to the factory settings.

Step 3. Restart your iPhone and your iPhone would turn off and you would enter the welcome page.

Step 4. Navigate to Apps & Data screen, then click “Restore from iCloud Backup”. Sign in your Apple ID.

Step 5. Wait for the other steps to be completed. Then all the user data would be restored on your iPhone, including your deleted voice memos. Now you had better make an exact copy of your voice memos to prevent any further accident deletions in the future.

Method 4: Recover your voice memos using iOS Data Recovery

Now if your voice memos have been deleted more than 30 days which could not be recovered from “Recently Deleted” folder, or your iPhone has not be backed up in the past days, how can you recover your voice memos? Luckily, you can have the additional option. A third-party iPhone data recovery program would be useful in such a case.

Among them, Leawo iOS Data Recovery will be helpful on this issue. This program enables users to recover deleted files from iOS devices, extract data from iTunes and iCloud backups. As a comprehensive data recovery app for iPad, iPhone and iPod devices, Leawo iOS Data Recovery would easily recover the deleted photos, videos, messages, contacts, Voice Memos, WhatsApp, notes, audiobooks, reminders and other data information for these devices with different models. This program would allow users to adopt different recovery models to make sure the data recovery could be enabled successfully and safely, including: iOS device data recovery mode, iTunes data recovery mode and iCloud data recovery mode. No matter which causes for the lost, such as iOS update, device jailbroken, device locked, mistake deletion, password forgotten and so on, Leawo iOS Data Recovery would handle easily. The following guidance will show you how to do that, and you can free download the software to have a try.



Step 1. Download and install Leawo iOS Data Recovery on your computer.

Step 2. There are three recovery modes for you: “Recovery from iOS Device”, “Recovery from iTunes Backup” and “Recovery from iCloud Backup”. Here you can choose “Recovery from iOS Device”. Run Leawo iOS Data Recovery and choose Recover from iOS Device.

Step 3. Connect iPhone to computer with USB and click the “Start” button to scan your iPhone automatically, but you can choose the proper iPhone model listed below. All your data information on this iPhone would be showed in this program, including your voice memos.

Step 4. The program will scan your iPhone. When the scan is finished, check Voice Memos and click “only display the deleted items”. Then choose the deleted voice memos you want to recover and click Recover.

Step 5. Click Open in the pop-up dialog to choose a target folder to save the voice memos. Then click Go to start recovering deleted voice memos from iPhone.

When the recovering process is done, you will get the recovered files in the target folder. The voice memos will be saved as M4A files. Leawo iOS Data Recovery is helpful for various kinds of data recovery issues, like recovering deleted call history from iPhone, and it brings much convenience to our daily life.