WhatsApp is now owned by Facebook, and it’s one of the widely used messaging apps used by around 2 billion people. Unlike other apps, WhatsApp is simple to use and has more features than before. You can use the platform for personal and for business accordingly, with the WhatsApp business account companies co-operate with their clients because that’s the easy way to get in touch with anyone. Moreover, you can send text messages, photos, videos, documents including voice or audio files.

Many iOS users are unaware of where WhatsApp audio files get saved on their iPhones? With the right file manager, you can get audio files from WhatsApp on Android devices, but the case is a little different when it comes to iOS devices. You can get frustrated if someone has sent an important audio file, you want to keep it but you’re unable to find it on the iOS device, as the process is a little tricky.

In this article, we have managed to provide you with a simple way to save audio from WhatsApp for iOS and Android devices. So, you can access it whenever required.

How to Save Audio from WhatsApp for iOS Devices?

Like Android, iOS has its own built-in isolated storage, which means we cannot directly access the files by other apps or third-party apps. Here, we are using iCloud to take WhatsApp backup or just email the audio file to yourself. Here’s how to do that:

Step 1: Go to the audio file on WhatsApp, and tap on the download button to save the file on your iPhone storage.

Step 2: Visit iPhone Settings > iCloud and turn on the iCloud Drive option.

Step 3: Scroll down on the same page until you see WhatsApp, and turn it on to save WhatsApp data.

Step 4: Now all the WhatsApp data will get stored in the iCloud storage, you will find the audio file in the iCloud backup.

Send Audio file through email to yourself on iOS

This method of saving the audio file is good when you want to save a single file and not an entire WhatsApp data. Follow the steps mentioned below:

Step 1: Go to the audio file present inside WhatsApp.

Step 2: Hold the audio file that you want to save, you will get options such as to reply, forward, delete, etc.

Step 3: Tap on the Forward option and select the share button to share the audio file.

Step 4: Share the audio file on Mail, and send the file to yourself or to any other contact of yours.

How to Save Audio from WhatsApp for iOS Android?

Saving the audio file from WhatsApp on Android is not complicated at all, you can do that with any file manager. We are using ES File Explorer here:

Step 1: Visit Google Play Store, and download and install ES File Manager (you can use any file manager).

Step 2: Now, using ES File Explorer, browse to follow the following location:

/sdcard/WhatsApp/Media/location.

Step 3: Now, visit the WhatsApp voice folder.

Files will be named and organized according to the date. Find the correct file and save it to the location that you wish to store.

That’s it for now, hope this helps! Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below. Till then stay tuned for more info.