

Then go into the Finder and paste them into a folder somewhere. The easiest way to do this is to right-click on them and select Copy. You can just delete them BUT before you do, you may want to make a copy of the ones you want and store them somewhere else.

The easiest way to access voice memos is to go to the Voice Memos playlist.

Apple did create a Voice Memos playlist to help users better manage/navigate their memos, but there's no way to stop them syncing from your iPhone to iTunes on your computer. Unfortunately, this approach has frustrated many users as there is no way to manually override this. This is all based on the fact we're more likely to lose our iPhones (or have them stolen) than we are our Macs. So Apple has designed iTunes to treat Voice Memos differently, and automatically sync them back to iTunes for safe keeping. If something happens to your iPhone, they are gone forever. Voice Memos, on the other hand, originate on your iPhone. You still have your music on your Mac or in the cloud. What I mean is that music originates from your iTunes library (or Apple Music), so you can afford to lose it if something happens to your iPhone. Basically Apple's approach is a case of Better to be safe than sorry.
