No longer working on iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma.

[Sr-11]

https://support.apple.com/en-us/10500: Starting in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma, Voice Memos encrypts the titles of recordings stored in iCloud, in addition to the recordings themselves. Now running the code yields “No permission to read database file."

[larsrinn]

Hi @Sr-11 - I can't access the linked page. Did you find a way how to programmatically access the voice memos? I can open them in the Finder app but was not successful in opening them in Python without copying them to another folder

[Sr-11]

The new path is "~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.VoiceMemos.shared/Recordings/CloudRecordings.db". But on Sonoma, running this program fails to export the correct name of memos. It only shows the time stamp, e.g., 2022-02-01 2022-02-01T16/16/34Z.

[becker929]

Hi @Sr-11 - I can't access the linked page. Did you find a way how to programmatically access the voice memos? I can open them in the Finder app but was not successful in opening them in Python without copying them to another folder

Thanks! I'm able to get past the permission error by copying the entire Recordings folder to my desktop and running the script on the database within the copied folder.

python3 ~/Desktop/macOSVoiceMemosExporter/main.py -a -e ~/Desktop/memo_export --date_in_name --db_path=CloudRecordings.db

[zgerbi]

The name can still be pulled from ZCUSTOMLABELFORSORTING. I've updated that and the path for newer macOS versions in #5

Edit: the permission error is caused by the program lacking full disk access under System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access. I had to enable it for VS Code and it worked fine.