Since the fall, Apple has steadily rolled out new features to your iPhone as part of iOS 18 (and its subsequent iterations).
Some standouts include the ability to customize your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Control Center like never before, and the ability to use Apple Intelligence to generate images, clear up notifications, and identify plants, animals and objects.
But that’s just scratching the surface and, admittedly, because so many new features get introduced, many fly under the radar. That’s the case with the updates to an app I’ve used for years: Voice Memos.
Voice Memos is one of Apple’s default apps that lets you record conversations, lectures, vocals or even your spontaneous ideas, and then lets you listen to them later. It has been on your iPhone for years, but hasn’t really changed that much.
That is, until this year. Apple has rolled out two standout features to its voice recording app, and they’re both incredibly useful.
Quickly transcribe a recording
Maybe the most noteworthy addition to Voice Memos is that, thanks to iOS 18, it can transcribe your audio recordings into text — and it just takes a few seconds. All you need is an iPhone (12 or later) that runs iOS 18.
