I had thought that the app might need to be added to the Security & Privacy preferences, in the Privacy tab under Microphone – this is where apps are listed that have requested permission to use a Mac’s microphone – but there’s no way to add it.
Not only does it not record anything, but the timeline doesn’t move. You can listen to voice memos you’ve recorded on iOS devices, but when you press the Record button, nothing happens in the app. However, seems that Voice Memos doesn’t work on the Mac, at least to record voice memos. Catalyst is a framework that allows iPad apps, with some small tweaks, to run on Macs. Voice Memos is one of the Catalyst apps that Apple has brought to macOS with the release of Catalina. That this works suggests that there is some sort of bug in the macOS coreaudio framework that needs to be fixed.Īnother commenter has pointed out that if you enable Play user interface sound effects in the Sound pane of System Preferences, that this resolves the problem. Update: As a commenter writes below, if you press the Mute key on your keyboard – the F10 key – you can record a voice memo.
