Apple is bringing layered recordings to the Voice Memos app on the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max. With the brand new function, you may file vocals whereas listening to an instrumental observe out loud in iOS 18.2.
Although the microphone will technically decide up the instrumentals, Apple says the iPhone 16’s A18 Professional chip permits it to isolate vocals with “superior processing and machine studying,” letting Voice Memos create a separate observe with simply your voice. From there, you may combine the 2 layers, in addition to edit or hearken to them individually.
Apple first introduced this function with the launch of the iPhone 16 Professional in September. On a help web page, Apple notes which you can nonetheless hearken to multitrack recordings on any gadget with iOS 18.2, however they received’t work with units operating something earlier. You’ll need to separate the tracks for them to work on a tool with an older model of Apple’s working programs.
The addition of layered recordings ought to make Voice Memos much more helpful to musicians and creators, particularly since they sync to Voice Memos on Mac and iPad, letting you drop them into Logic Professional for modifying.
