Just a quick note before we dive in: while the Voice Memos app lets you make surprisingly high quality recordings of the sounds around the phone, what the Voice Memos app won't let you do is record a phone call. The app is straightforward and easy to use once you know the few steps.
If you're wondering how to use the Voice Memos app on an iPhone to record notes, meetings, yourself singing in the bathroom, or any other audio, you'll have it mastered in just a few minutes. The recording equipment I used? Nothing more than my iPhone and the Voice Memos app that came preloaded on it. We had a two-hour lunch in a restaurant where music and noisy chatter filled the space, yet still I could hear every word he and I had spoken with perfect clarity on the recording I used to help me write a profile on the host. Earlier this year, I interviewed the host of a nationally syndicated radio show and podcast (Francis Lam of American Public Media's 'The Splendid Table').
