How to Send a WhatsApp Audio to a Contact – Send and Forward Voice Messages

WhatsApp makes life easier for many people. You can share all kinds of information and files with your friends and acquaintances simply and quickly. Now it’s easier than ever to share photos from Google Drive with your contacts and send or forward voice messages and other audios.

But among so many features that the popular instant messaging app offers, it’s easy to get lost and not take full advantage of its features. Learn to share audios from your WhatsApp with the contacts you want and using any operating system or platform.

How do you share an audio file on WhatsApp?

To send audio files to your contacts you have multiple options depending on the platform you use to connect to WhatsApp. You can record a voice message or upload a file from your device storage.

From the mobile app

To record voice messages, hold the microphone icon in the lower right corner of the screen and release it to send; you can also drag it up to not hold it down. If you want to send an audio file, go to the clip icon and select ‘Audio’. Browse through the files on your local storage and choose the audio you want to send.

Using WhatsApp Web

To share audios from your browser, using WhatsApp Web, access the chat of your interest and you press the microphone icon to the right of the text bar to record a voice message.

Alternatively, you can press the clip icon and you select ‘Document’ as file type, after which you mark the audio you want to share and send it.

How can a WhatsApp audio be forwarded to a contact?

If you want to share certain audio with another contact, you can use the forward function to broadcast it through another chat. Whether your cell phone uses Android or iOS, you will have access to this utility by applying the following steps.

From an iPhone

Locate the chat where the audio you want to forward is and hold the message. In the options menu, select ‘Resend’. Then you can forward it directly or save the file inside your iPhone storage to send it to another contact later. You can also set a conversation or chat message so that you do not lose sight of the audio that you will share later.

With an Android

Within the chat, you will see a small icon on the right side of each audio and voice message that will allow you to forward it directly to any contact. You can also select the message and use the option from the options bar at the top of the screen.

How to send the same audio to all contacts?

With WhatsApp, it is possible to share the same audio or voice message with many contacts quickly and easily. By following the steps to forward a message, you will find two ways to broadcast a voice message or audio between your selected contacts.

Create a new broadcast

From the beginning of your WhatsApp, access the options menu and press ‘New broadcast’. Select all the contacts you want to include in the new list and save it. You can save all the broadcast lists you want, the only condition is that the members of it must be saved in your contact list.

Manually choose recipients

By selecting the resend option, you can mark more than one contact as recipient from a list with your frequent and recent chats, as well as the rest of your contact list.

Procedure to send a WhatsApp audio by email

You can share an audio via email. So can store or share them without size restriction. Alternatively, there are other methods of sending large files via WhatsApp.

Gmail

Select the ‘Share’ option after marking the message you want to forward and in the list of applications that will be displayed, choose Gmail and it will upload as an attachment in a new email.

Outlook

When sharing the audio, use the Outlook application to send the file via email. If you don’t have such an application downloaded, you can register your email address in Email and use the native email application to send your audio.