When she’s not writing or glued to her iPhone, she enjoys hiking, traveling, and creating her own tea blends.When using the Voice Memos application on your Apple iPhone, the new audio recordings in the app are sometimes saved with the name of the location the user is present in and use the building name or the street name for the file.īasically, the Voice Memos app uses the iPhone’s location to name the recordings if the application has received the location permission when it was first opened. The mix of usability and endless possibilities is what drew her to Apple products originally, and the more she learns, the more she loves.Īmy lives in New Hampshire with her husband and daughter. Writing everything from book reviews to skincare tips, Amy discovered a passion for bringing exciting and useful information to even the most casual researcher. Her debut novel Untold won the 2014 Chelson Award for Fiction. with a Bachelor’s in Literature and Writing, and has gone on to publish two novels and two short stories. Over the past decade, her work in the publishing industry has included live coverage of industry events including the Yale Publishing Course and Magazine Innovation’s ACT 9 Experience, providing editing services for several start-up publishing houses, and acting as newsstand consultant for magazines such as The Old Farmer’s Almanac and The New York Review of Books. With this function, you can go back and review your voice memos by location, and rename recordings later in the Voice Memo app.Īmy Spitzfaden Both is a Feature Writer at iPhone Life, an award-winning novelist, and an iPhone enthusiast. If it is to the left and gray, it means it is off. If the slider is to the right and the bar is green, it means this function is on.

You'll see a toggle next to Location-based Naming.

And you can always rename the voice memo later when it's more convenient. Automatically naming voice memos by location is an easy way to take you back to where you were when you had the thought - whether it was at work, home, or on vacation, you'll remember where you were and be able to search by where you were.

While manually naming these memos is the most reliable way to know the content, this isn't always convenient or even possible when you are on the go. Voice Memos is Apple's voice and audio memos app that enables you to keep voice recordings for later.

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