How to extract audio from videos on iOS?

By Enes Deniz, 6 July, 2023

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iOS and iPadOS

You might also paraphrase this question as, "How to convert videos to audio on iOS without a computer or any other device?". I sometimes record my screen and then want to share these recordings with blind friends, but then face annoying size limit problems and often end up sending them links to storage/file sharing services instead. So all I am looking for is an app, preferably a free one, to convert these videos to audio, or extract the audio from them.

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By Brian Giles on Sunday, July 23, 2023 - 21:28

No need for a separate app. The shortcuts app that's part of iOS will do it for you. I made a shortcut that does exactly this. It shows up as an option in the share sheet for a video you record and lets you save the audio from the video as an AAC file to the files app.

Get it here

By Dominic on Sunday, July 23, 2023 - 21:28

Brian, that’s the message I get when I try and load your shortcut
Does anybody know how I can fix this

By Brian Giles on Sunday, July 23, 2023 - 21:28

Hmmmm. worked for me when I clicked on the link, as well as when I googled and tried to add a shortcut from a link that someone else made.

Have you turned on "allow untrusted shortcuts" in settings?

Open the shortcuts app and run one.
Then if you go to settings>shortcuts the option should show up.