How can I download WhatsApp audios?

Voice messages have become an essential option for many users when it comes to communicating. Certainly, many of them include important information that we want to be saved. That's why, In this post today, we are going to tell you how you can download WhatsApp audio on your mobile device or computer.

People who use this means of communication do so to send a message to another user who has a lot to tell , being in a hurry and not being able to write or simply for convenience. However, there are also those people who tremble when opening the app and find several audio messages and more if they are too long.

It doesn't matter why you want to have that audio saved on your device, with these methods that we are going to mention, it will be a very simple process for you. You just need to follow a few steps and you'll have the audio saved in your device's memory.

whatsapp audios

Ever since this instant messaging app first appeared, it has offered its millions of users different ways to communicate with each other. Either through text chats, emojis or audios. As we indicated at the beginning of this publication, audio notes are one of the most used and functional forms of communication in the application.

The maximum duration of the audios that you can send through this app, initially it had a maximum of 15 minutes, which was increased over the years. Currently, the messaging application allows its users to send audios of up to 30 minutes on an iPhone. In the case of Android, depending on the model, the audio will have one duration or another.

WhatsApp: how to download audios

Let's start by explaining how Android users can start downloading WhatsApp audio files. As we will see in the next case, the download process is very similar between Android and IOS.

The first thing, in addition to opening the application and the chat where the audio you want to download is located, is select the file, you will keep your finger pressed on it until it appears marked.

When the message appears with a selection color, click on the share option on the toolbar at the top of the screen . In case anyone doesn't know, the sharing option is represented by two lines joined by three dots or within the three dot menu.

Upon selecting the sharing option, a menu of options for sharing the said file will appear. Right now, you must select your device's file explorer to save the audio in the internal memory.

Now it's time to choose the folder where the audio will be saved inside your file explorer. Once you have the chosen folder, the audio will be saved and you can listen to it whenever you want.

Download audios from WhatsApp on IOS

Next, we will explain how IOS users can download their favorite WhatsApp audios on mobile . Open the app on your mobile device and go to the chat that contains the audio you want to download.

Select, as in the previous case, the audio by keeping your finger pressed on that message. When it appears as selected, it will open a menu with different options, in this case you will click on “resend”.

When clicking on this option, the audio message is selected. Next, a new box of options will appear on your screen and you should choose the option “Save to files” , with this, the file will be saved in the internal memory of the device. You may have to swipe the screen to find it.

At that time, your device's file explorer will open for you to select the folder where you want to save said audio file . Also, you can rename it however you want to find it more easily later.

With these simple steps, you already have the process of downloading and saving your favorite WhatsApp audio files on your device. When you have the file saved, you already know that you can play and forward it as many times as you want.

Download WhatsApp audio on my computer

The two audio download options for our mobile devices, as you could read, are very simple and even share almost the same steps. But what happens if, instead of downloading them on my cell phone, I want to download them on my computer using Web WhatsApp.

This download process is much easier than on mobile devices. Enough Hover your mouse cursor over the audio file you want to download.

After doing this, click the down arrow icon that appears in the top corner of the voicemail. As you will see when clicking on this button, a menu is displayed with different options for the message. In this list that is shown to you, we must select the option that tells us to download to proceed with that audio file.

When choosing this download option, our computer's native file explorer will open, as in the previous cases . You just need to choose the folder where you want to download it and save it. It remains only to click on the save button and everything is ready.

Whenever you want, you can search and open the file in explorer to open it, play it or move it out of the way if needed.

It is estimated that more than 7 million audios are shared daily on WhatsApp. With this large number of files, just audio files, the application seeks daily improvements in its reproduction and ways of sharing. New features arrive in each of its updates, some are visible as the new way of playing audios in which it is much easier to hear them and others are imperceptible.

Today, WhatsApp not only allows you to play the audio at three different speeds, which is very useful when you receive audio that lasts longer than five minutes, but now in its latest update we can play the audio outside the chat where it came from sent. , being able to use any other application or with the screen locked.