Save and Find WhatsApp Voice Messages (Android)

The WhatsApp voice message is increasingly replacing long typing. Sending short Voicemails is also very convenient. However, while you can quickly copy or photograph a text history, you have to find the small audio files first before you can save them. We’ll show you here on GIGA where you can find the spoken messages on your Android device.

Saving voice messages can be important for a variety of reasons. It doesn’t matter whether the voicemail contains important information or a good idea, is just particularly funny or exactly the opposite. The actual backup of the file is not the problem at all, but rather finding it – because WhatsApp does not make that particularly easy for you.

Are you looking for an alternative to WhatsApp? In the following video we introduce you to several:

Find & save WhatsApp voice messages

There are two ways to backup individual WhatsApp voice messages. With the first variant, you use the share function in the app itself – so you don’t have to search for the respective voicemail for a long time, but you need a way to share the file with yourself (Bluetooth, mail, NAS app, etc.) . With the second variant, you use the file explorer of your mobile phone – here finding the right message can be a bit more time-consuming, but you can simply move the file to your computer via USB cable.

WhatsApp saves the voice messages in Opus audio format. Many media players have now mastered this. But if you want to convert the file into a more common format, you can find out how to do it in the following article: Open the Opus file or convert it to MP3.

1st variant: Use the share function

1. Opens the “WhatsApp Messenger” and choose the “Chats” overview at.
2. Tap the chatthat contains the voice message.
3. Wipes the Voicemail, tap and holduntil it is dialed.
4. Now choose the share symbol in the top menu (Brackets with three dots).
5. Now you can choose which app or function you want to save the file with (Bluetooth, Mail, NAS app, etc.).

2nd variant: Use the file explorer

1. Opens the File manager of your Android smartphone.
2. in the Main directory of internal memory you should “WhatsApp” folder find, tap on it.
3. In the WhatsApp folder you tap on “Media” and then on “WhatsApp Voice Notes”.
4. Here you can find now folder, the sorted by period are.
5. With the Date of the sent voice message, you can now navigate through the folders to find the correct file.
6. When you have found the file, you can transfer it to the PC, an external memory or similar via the directory.

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