How to Recover Trimmed Voice Memos from iPhone with Backup

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If you're anxiously searching for ways to get back trimmed voice memos, you will find that quite a few people have gone through this trouble and asked help from forum, community or discussion. Questions like "Can I retrieve the original voice memo which was accidentally edited on an iPhone?" are similar and ubiquitous. It's badly caused by the "Trim Original" option when you trim or edit voice memos on iPhone, which leads to original voice memos are replaced with the new trimmed one. Thus, only when you have backups in iTunes or iCloud can you know how to recover trimmed voice memo from iPhone using the mentioned solutions in this post.

• Part 1. Restore Trimmed Voice Memos from iPhone Using iTunes Backup
• Part 2. Retrieve Trimmed Voice Memos from iPhone Using iCloud Backup

Best iPhone Voice Memo Recovery - Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery

Hopefully, a professional data recovery tool, Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery can be your top priority to recover trimmed voice memo. It supports both common and encrypted backups created in iTunes and iCloud.

No matter which iPhone model your device is or iOS version runs, like iPhone 12 or iOS 14, Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery can come to rescue with just three simple steps. Other than that, there is a real-time decryption & preview function developed for you to completely view and check your deleted trimmed voice memos before recovery.

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Part 1. How to Recover Trimmed Voice Memos from iTunes Backup

There is a good chance that you have a copy of original iPhone voice memos in iTunes if you always sync and back up data to it. Now what you need to do is get them off an iTunes back with the iPhone iTunes backup extractor recommended above.

• Step 1 Run Joyoshare and choose recovery mode

  

  Download, install and open Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery on your computer that you sync iPhone data to. Select "Recover from iTunes" mode on the top navigation bar of this program. Soon after, all iTunes backups will be detected from local folder and listed for you to choose.

• Step 2 Scan chosen iTunes backup

  

  Select the appropriate backup file based on the details provided, such as backup date, system version, etc. Next you can press the gear "Setting" icon located on the selected iTunes backup. Mark "Voice Memos" and click on the "Scan" button to start searching data.

• Step 3 Preview and recover trimmed voice memos via iTunes

  

  When Joyoshare iPhone Data Recovery has done scanning task, all recoverable trimmed voice memos will be shown on the results page. Get whichever you need checked and save them to computer by clicking the "Recover" option.

Part 2. How to Recover Trimmed Voice Memos from iCloud Backup

An iCloud backup, containing your original voice memos before trimmed, probably gives you a hand to find desired data. The steps are similar to recover from iTunes backups. You can have a reference here:

• Step 1 Run program to log in iCloud

  

  Get the program started and likewise set recover mode from the top navigation bar. You are required to type in your Apple ID and related password to sign in iCloud account under "Recover from iCloud" mode.

• Step 2 Scan voice memos from iCloud backup

  

  Choose an iCloud backup and download it with "Download" option. You can download the full backup or just part of it as you want. Then tap on the gear "Setting" icon to confirm "Voice Memos" and begin "Scan".

• Step 3 Extract trimmed voice memos from iCloud

  

  Simply go to the categories to preview all scanned voice memos. You can choose the one you really need or directly select all and start to "Recover" with one click.