Apple set to introduce track layering to Voice Memos in iPhone 16 Pro, giving songwriters a quick alternative to a mobile DAW [Video]

Apple’s new iPhone announcements typically fall into the ‘meh’ category for a lot of musicians, but tucked away in last night’s keynote we got a glimpse of a forthcoming new feature in the company’s Voice Memos recording app that looks genuinely useful.

Seemingly exclusive to the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max – Apple’s new flagship handsets – this enables you to layer one track on top of another, and then isolate the overdubbed part for use elsewhere.

Say, for example, you’ve recorded a guitar part and then later think of a vocal to go over the top of it. The new Voice Memos feature means that you can record this while listening to the guitar through your iPhone’s speaker, then remove the guitar using “advanced processing”.

Although Apple hasn’t said as much, we’re guessing that this feature is based on similar tech to that used in Stem Splitter, which …