iPhone User Guide
- iPhone User Guide
- What’s new in iOS 13
- Supported iPhone models
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- Wake and unlock
- Adjust the volume
- Change sounds and vibrations
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Open apps on the Home screen
- Take a screenshot or screen recording
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Change the wallpaper
- Make screen items more reachable
- Search with iPhone
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Perform quick actions
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- Travel with iPhone
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- Calculator
- Compass
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- View photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Edit Live Photos
- Edit Portrait mode photos
- Organize photos in albums
- Search in Photos
- Share photos and videos
- View Memories
- Find people in Photos
- Browse photos by location
- Use iCloud Photos
- Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
- Use My Photo Stream
- Import photos and videos
- Print photos
- Shortcuts
- Stocks
- Tips
- Weather
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- Intro to CarPlay
- Connect to CarPlay
- Use Siri
- Use your car’s built-in controls
- Get turn-by-turn directions
- Change the map view
- Make phone calls
- Play music
- View your calendar
- Send and receive text messages
- Play podcasts
- Play audiobooks
- Listen to news stories
- Control your home
- Use other apps with CarPlay
- Rearrange icons on CarPlay Home
- Change settings in CarPlay
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- Restart iPhone
- Force restart iPhone
- Update iOS
- Back up iPhone
- Return iPhone settings to their defaults
- Restore all content from a backup
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Sell or give away your iPhone
- Erase all content and settings
- Restore iPhone to factory settings
- Install or remove configuration profiles
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- Get started with accessibility features
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPhone using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Use VoiceOver with Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- Display & Text Size
- Motion
- Spoken Content
- Audio Descriptions
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change cellular settings
- Find more resources for software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Ultra Wideband information
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- Copyright
Make a recording in Voice Memos on iPhone
With the Voice Memos app (located in the Utilities folder), you can use iPhone as a portable recording device to record personal notes, classroom lectures, musical ideas, and more. You can fine-tune your recordings with editing tools like trim, replace, and resume.
Record voice memos using the built-in microphone, a supported headset, or an external microphone.
When Voice Memos is turned on in iCloud settings or preferences, your recordings appear and update automatically on all your devices where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID. You can use your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, or Mac to capture audio, then open recordings on your Mac to edit and share them, use them in other media, and so on.
![The Voice Memos screen showing a recording in progress, with an active Pause button and dimmed controls for playing, skipping forward 15 seconds, and skipping backward 15 seconds. The main part of the screen shows the waveform of the recording that’s in progress, along with a time indicator.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5F1904F50946226D7189D604/5F1904FE0946226D7189D62A/en_US/0437632132d21bdc68a1f74bded402f1.png)
Make a basic recording
To begin recording, tap
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To adjust the recording level, move the microphone closer to or farther from what you’re recording.
Tap
to finish recording.
Your recording is saved with the name New Recording or the name of your location, if Turn on Location Services is turned on in Settings > Privacy. To change the name, tap the recording, then tap the name and type a new one.
To fine-tune your recording, see Edit a recording in Voice Memos.
Use the advanced recording features
You can make a recording in parts, pausing and resuming as you record.
To begin recording, tap
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To adjust the recording level, move the microphone closer to or farther away from what you’re recording. For better recording quality, the loudest level should be between –3 dB and 0 dB.
To see more details while you’re recording, swipe up from the top of the waveform.
Tap
to stop recording; tap Resume to continue.
To review your recording, tap
.
To change where playback begins, drag the waveform left or right across the playhead before you tap
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To save the recording, tap Done.
Your recording is saved with the name New Recording or the name of your location, if Turn on Location Services is turned on in Settings > Privacy. To change the name, tap the recording, then tap the name and type a new one.
To fine-tune your recording, see Edit or delete a recording in Voice Memos.
Mute the start and stop tones
While recording, use the iPhone volume down button to turn the volume all the way down.
Use another app while recording
While you’re recording, you can use another app, as long as it doesn’t play audio on your device. If the app starts playing audio, Voice Memos stops recording.
While recording in Voice Memos, you can go to the Home screen and open another app.
Note: During recording, Voice Memos will record any sounds produced by you or the movement of your device while you’re using the other app.
To return to Voice Memos, tap the red bar or the little red icon at the top of the screen.
If Voice Memos is turned on in iCloud settings or preferences, your recording is saved in iCloud and appears automatically on all your devices where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID.
Recordings using the built-in microphone are mono, but you can record stereo using an external stereo microphone that works with iPhone. Look for accessories marked with the Apple “Made for iPhone” or “Works with iPhone” logo.