How to Record Audio on iPad

This wikiHow teaches you how to record your (or someone else’s) voice using the iPad’s built-in microphone. While the iPad can’t access the same Voice Memos app as on the iPhone, you can use other free apps to record your voice on your iPad.

Table of Contents

Using Voice Recorder & Audio Editor

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Download Voice Recorder & Audio Editor app. This application will allow you to record and store audio for free. To download the application, please:

Open

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App Store on iPad up.
Tap the “Search” text box in the upper-left corner.
Enter voice recorder & audio editor and press Search .
Tap GET (Get) to the right of the gray cassette icon.
Enter your Apple ID, Touch ID, or Face ID password when prompted.

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Open Voice Recorder & Audio Editor. Tap OPEN on the App Store, or tap the cassette-shaped app icon on your iPad’s Home screen.

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Tap the “Record” tab. This black microphone-shaped button is at the bottom of the screen.

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Tap the red REC button at the bottom left of the screen.

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Click OK when asked. Voice Recorder & Audio Editor will be allowed to access the iPad’s microphone. Then the iPad will start recording.

Voice Recorder & Audio Editor will remember your answer to this question and not ask again in the future; After this you just need to press the REC button to start recording.

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Recording. You need to speak clearly and direct your voice (as well as other audio sources) toward the microphone located near the top of the iPad’s chassis. ^{[1] X Research Source}

You can pause by pressing the PAUSE button, then pressing the red REC button to resume recording.

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Press STOP at the bottom of the screen to stop recording.

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Add title. If you want to save an audio with a specific title, do:

Tap the “TAP TO NAME” text box in the middle of the screen.
Enter title.
Press return on the keyboard to save the title.

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Tap the gray Done button at the top left of the screen. After the recording is saved, you will return to the main page.

You can play the recording by clicking the name of the file on the page.

Using GarageBand

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Open GarageBand. Tap the GarageBand app icon, which looks like a white electric guitar on an orange background.

If your iPad doesn’t have GarageBand, you can download it from the App Store for free.

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Tap the ＋ sign in the upper left corner of the screen. The instrument selection page opens.

If GarageBand uploads a project, you need to first tap the My Songs button in the upper-left corner of the screen to return to the “Recents” page.

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Select AUDIO RECORDER . Swipe left or right until you find the microphone option, then tap to select.

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You need to make sure that the recording is not automatically stopped. Please disable automatic interrupt limit by:

Tap the ＋ sign in the upper right corner of the screen.
Click Section A .
Tap the “Automatic” switch

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(white) to switch to

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(green).
Click Done .

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Turn off the metronome. If you don’t want the metronome sound effect playing in the background of your recording, tap the metronome icon at the top of the screen to turn it off.

If this option is grayed out, the metronome is off.

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Tap the red circle “Record” button at the top of the screen. iPad will start recording.

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Recording. You need to speak clearly and direct your voice (as well as other audio sources) toward the microphone located near the top of the iPad’s chassis.

If during recording you need to pause, press the red circle “Record” button once, then press again to resume recording.

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Stop recording. Tap the white square “Stop” button at the top of the screen. Your recording will be saved.

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Save the recording. Click on the sign

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in the upper-left corner of the screen, then tap My Songs in the drop-down menu. The recording will be saved as a file on the “My Songs” page of GarageBand.

Advice

You can use the built-in sound effects wheel in GarageBand to change the sound of your recordings.

Warning

Unfortunately, the Voice Memos application on the iPhone is not pre-installed and cannot be installed on the iPad.

Steps

Using Voice Recorder & Audio Editor

Using GarageBand

Advice

Warning

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