Screenshot: Courtesy of David Nield<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nNot only is Notes adding a built-in way of recording audio in iOS 18, so you don’t have to keep copying over clips from Voice Memos, the app will also transcribe your spoken audio into digital text along the way. You then get the audioclip and the text transcript embedded in your note.<\/p>\n
With a note open, tap the paperclip icon at the bottom of the screen (or just above the keyboard), then choose Record Audio<\/strong>. You’ll then be taken to the main recording screen: Tap the red record button to start and stop recording. Text transcriptions will be saved automatically, but you can show or hide them by tapping the speech bubble icon in the lower left.<\/p>\nTap the three dots in the top right to rename your audio file, and save it somewhere else if you need to. When you’re finished with your recording, tap Done<\/strong>, and it gets added to the note. Then, when you run searches through Notes, you’ll see results from text transcriptions as well as the standard text in the notes you’ve saved.<\/p>\nIntegrated Calculations<\/h2>\n\n![\"The](\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\")
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