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This wikiHow teaches you how to save a previously recorded voice message from WhatsApp to your computer.
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Open WhatsApp on your computer. It's a green app with a white phone icon on it.
- If you don't have the desktop version of WhatsApp yet, download and install it first.
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Click a conversation. Your WhatsApp conversations are on the left side of the window.
- Since the WhatsApp desktop app synchronizes with your phone's WhatsApp app, all of your conversations will appear here.
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Hover your mouse over an audio message. You'll see a downward-facing arrow in the top-right corner of the message.
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Click the downward-facing arrow. Doing so will prompt a drop-down menu next to the message.
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Click Download . It's in the middle of the drop-down menu.
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Select a save location. This will determine where the file goes when you download it.
- For example, you'd click the "Desktop" tab to save your audio message to your desktop.
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Click Save . It's in the bottom-right corner of the save location window. Doing so will download the audio message from WhatsApp to your desktop.
- To play the audio message, you'll need to choose a program such as VLC media player or iTunes.
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Open WhatsApp. It's a green app with a white phone and speech bubble icon.
- If this is your first time opening WhatsApp on your phone, you'll need to first set up WhatsApp.
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Tap the Chats tab. It's at the bottom of the screen.
- If WhatsApp opens to a conversation, just tap the back button in the top left corner of the screen.
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Tap a conversation. Doing so will open the conversation. This should be the conversation with the audio message you wish to download.
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Tap and hold the audio message. A bar of options will appear above the message.
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Tap Forward . It's the middle option in the bar above the message.
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Tap the "Share" button. It's the upward-facing arrow in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
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Tap Mail . It's the blue app with a white envelope icon.
- If you don't have iCloud Mail enabled, this option won't work; you'll have to swipe left on the apps listed here to use a different email provider if you have one.
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Type your own email address into the "To" field. The "To" field is near the top of the screen.
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Tap Send . It's in the top-right corner of the screen.
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Open your email account on a computer. You may need to log into the email account with your email address and password before you can open it.
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Click the email from yourself. Doing so should open the email and load the audio message.
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Download the audio message. Depending on which email service you use, this process will vary; however, in most cases, you'll click a downward-facing arrow on or below the audio message's icon. Once it's finished downloading, your WhatsApp audio message will be available for listening on your computer.
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Open WhatsApp. It's a green app with a white phone and speech bubble icon.
- If this is your first time opening WhatsApp on your phone, you'll need to first set up WhatsApp.
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Tap the Chats tab. It's at the top of the screen.
- If WhatsApp opens to a conversation, just tap the back button in the top left corner of the screen.
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Tap a conversation. Doing so will open the conversation. This should be the conversation with the audio message you wish to download.
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Tap and hold the audio message. Doing so will select it, prompting several options to appear at the top of the WhatsApp page.
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Tap the "Share" button. This is the three dots connected by a line in the top-right side of the screen.
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Tap Gmail . It's the top option in the pop-up menu here. Doing so will open an email in Gmail with your audio message attached.
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Type your own email address into the "To" field. The "To" field is near the top of the screen, directly below the "From" field.
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Tap the "Send" arrow. It's the paper plane icon in the top-right corner of the screen.
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Open your email account on a computer. You may need to log into the email account with your email address and password before you can open it.
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Click the email from yourself. Doing so should open the email and load the audio message.
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Download the audio message. Depending on which email service you use, this process will vary; however, in most cases, you'll click a downward-facing arrow on or below the audio message's icon. Once it's finished downloading, your WhatsApp audio message will be available for listening on your computer.
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- Another way to download your audio message is to upload it to a cloud storage service (e.g., iCloud Drive or Google Drive) and then download it from there onto your desktop.Thanks
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Warnings
- If your audio message is larger than 25 megabytes, most email services won't allow you to send it in an email.Thanks
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