“Forward” is the option you’re after, to email it etcģ. If you press and hold anywhere inside the pale green box you’ll bring up the options windowĢ. Here’s a redacted WhatsApp voice recording (you can make new ones by clicking on the remarkably obvious blue microphone icon at the bottom of the screen which I only spotted yesterday). WikiVIP is about inviting people who have a Wikipedia page about them to record and share a short audio introduction (“Hi I’m X and have been doing Y since Z”, sort of thing), you can see an example on Ralph Fiennes’ Wikipedia page. This post was prompted by thinking about Andy Mabbett’s post about the Wiki Voice Intro Project (#wikivip), while noticing that audio messages could be shared via WhatsApp.

You can also save a copy separately (by emailing it to yourself), and I thought I’d write up how to save / email voice memos from iPhone too, so I added that at the end. I discovered yesterday that you can send an audio message through WhatsApp, I think it’s probably always been possible but I only just noticed.