Currently, WhatsApp is among the applications used daily. Hundreds of thousands of messages and audio files are sent across the world using these chat apps. There may be times when you want to save WhatsApp audio files on iPhone and Android. Specifically, it is difficult to save audio files in iPhone because it is difficult to access them directly on iPhone unlike Android. If you noticed on WhatsApp, you can save images and videos separately in your gallery, but this case does not apply to audio files. The question is how to record Word audio files on iPhone and add Android easily.
There are two methods you can use to save WhatsApp audio files on your iPhone. The first method is to use the transfer option and the second is to use the export feature to save audio files to your iPhone. You cannot access WhatsApp storage on iOS and that is the main reason why you cannot save it on your iPhone.
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Steps to save WhatsApp audio files to iPhone using transfer options:
- Open a chat from which you want to download the audio file to your iPhone, tap and hold it until you see the options.
- For the next step, tab on before.
- Tap share
- And finally, choose to save the files.
- After choosing to save the files, a list of folders will appear, which you can access from the file directory on your iPhone. For example, I will choose the download directory where we have to save it.
- After choosing the directory, tap save to save it permanently on your iPhone.
- After applying the mentioned methods, you should check if the audio file is properly saved in your iPhone download directory. So open the Files app, visit the downloads directory and take a look.
Steps to save WhatsApp audio files on iPhone using export feature:
If you want to save all WhatsApp chat audio files in one swipe, this might be one of the best methods. Because in this method, you will not only export images and videos, but also text and audio files.
- Launch WhatsApp and visit WhatsApp settings.
- Open chat settings.
- Choose export chat.
- Select the number or user whose audio files you want to save on your iPhone.
- For the next step, you need to make sure to enable attached media files, because without them, you cannot record audio files either. You have to wait for WhatsApp to create a zip file from the selected user data. Please be patient as this part takes a while.
- Once the zip file is created, save it to your iPhone’s file manager or you can save it to iCloud.
- After saving the zip file to file manager or iCloud of your iPhone, open it. Once you open it, it will automatically extract the contents of the zip file to a separate directory.
- The good news is that right now you are viewing and seeing all exported chat content including audio files with opus extension.
- To play the audio file, rename it and change the extension from opus to mp3 or ogg.
Save WhatsApp Audio Files on Android
Unlike iPhone, every media file will be saved directly to your phone storage. You can access it through the file manager or by using any third-party file manager app. This means you don’t have to use the steps we did for the iPhone.
However, I want to mention that you don’t need to use any file manager app to view a recorded audio file. Instead, you just have to open the file manager, visit the WhatsApp directory, navigate to the media directory, and just view whatever content you’re looking for.
Here once more are the steps you can use to play WhatsApp audio files on Android:
- Open the File Manager app on your Android.
- Tap Internal memory or Internal storage.
- Find the WhatsApp directory and open it.
- Open the multimedia directory. The good news is that all downloaded media files are available here and they are divided according to their file type, which means it is organized so you can easily find audio files.
- Audio files including music are stored in WhatsApp audio folder and voice messages are stored in WhatsApp voice notes directory.
- When you can see all audio files, you can sort in ascending or descending order from newest to oldest. To play the audio file, rename it and change the extension from opus to mp3 or ogg or move it to another directory.
Note: The WhatsApp folder is located in Android > media > com.whatsapp on Android 11 and above.
Now you can do whatever you want with the audio files. Remember that the music will be kept with the MP3 extension, so you won’t have to edit it at all.
Conclusion:
These are the methods you can use to save WhatsApp audio files on iPhone and Android. I admit that on Android it’s already registered but on iPhone it’s a bit hard but in the end you can have it on your local phone.