Request for feature for pausing voice notes

[u/Objective-Audience24]

I know that a lot of users are opposed to this but I find myself wishing there was a feature that would let users pause and resume a voice recording instead of only having the option to cancel or send the voice note. That's a big plus that WhatsApp has and I think it would make the user experience for people coming from WhatsApp even greater. I wonder if this is something the devs would ever consider.. I'm on iOS

Edit. Feature request was submitted by someone else already back in 2018. https://community.signalusers.org/t/pause-while-recording-voice-message/3357

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[u/3_Seagrass]

See now this is a good idea. Plus it probably makes the voice notes nicer for the listener.

Submit a request on the official community forum and link to it here :)

[u/Objective-Audience24 → u/3_Seagrass]

Apparently there already is a feature request for this, created already in 2018. Some good mock up suggestions were made by a user back in 2025.. https://community.signalusers.org/t/pause-while-recording-voice-message/3357

[u/3_Seagrass → u/Objective-Audience24]

I commented there that I want this feature too and my comment got removed for being “inappropriate”, lol. 

[u/Objective-Audience24 → u/3_Seagrass]

Wtfff??

[u/LihMissn → u/3_Seagrass]

good point about the listener side, didn't think of that

[u/Chongulator → u/3_Seagrass]

Maybe I'm atypical, but I'd rather receive a small batch of voice notes instead of one big one.

[u/3_Seagrass → u/Chongulator]

Also valid. I’d argue the ability to pause the recording wouldn’t stop someone from sending multiple short ones. 

[u/mrskurk0]

One hack until this is implemented is to record in the Voice Memos app (which supports pausing), then share to Signal.