Clipback Support

Listening

Turn listening on in the app, with the Start Buffering control in Control Center, or by saying “Start Clipback” to Siri. While Clipback is listening, iOS shows the orange microphone dot and Clipback shows a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Say “Stop Clipback” or stop it in the app to turn it off; the buffer is erased.

Choose how much audio to keep in Settings. The free plan keeps 1 or 2 minutes; Pro adds 5, 10 and 15 minutes. Each minute uses about 2 MB of memory.

Ways to clip

• Action button (iPhone 15 Pro and later): open Settings › Action Button, swipe to Shortcut, tap Choose a Shortcut and pick Clipback › Clip That. If listening was off, pressing it starts listening.
• Control Center (iOS 18 and later): swipe down from the top-right corner, tap +, then Add a Control, and search for Clipback. Add Clip That, and Start Buffering if you like.
• Lock Screen: touch and hold the Lock Screen, tap Customize, then tap one of the bottom controls and choose Clip That.
• Live Activity: while Clipback is listening, the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show a Clip button.
• Back Tap: open Settings › Accessibility › Touch › Back Tap, choose Double Tap, then pick Clip That under Shortcuts.
• Siri: say “Clip that with Clipback”. Siri uses the microphone briefly, but the audio from before you spoke is kept.

The same steps are in the app under Settings › Ways to clip.

Recording after Clip

Clipback can keep recording for a few seconds after you press Clip: off or 15 seconds on the free plan, up to 30 seconds with Pro. Press Clip again during those seconds to make the clip longer.

Transcripts, titles and search

With Pro, Clipback transcribes each new clip on your iPhone, gives it a title, and lets you search everything that was said. This needs an iPhone that supports on-device speech recognition; if yours doesn’t, the Pro screen says so. Audio is never sent to a server to be transcribed.

Free trial and Pro

The 7-day free trial never charges you. When it ends, Clipback goes back to Free: only the last 2 minutes are kept, new clips aren’t transcribed or titled, and search and custom tags lock. Your clips and transcripts stay.

Clipback Pro is a one-time purchase of $2.99, not a subscription. If you reinstall Clipback or move to a new iPhone, open the Pro screen and tap Restore purchase, signed in with the same Apple Account. Refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Deleted clips

Deleting a clip moves it to Trash, where you can restore it for 30 days. After that it’s deleted for good. Emptying Trash deletes those clips straight away. Clipback has no account or cloud copy, so deleting the app deletes all your clips.

Recording and consent

You’re responsible for following the recording laws where you are. Many places require everyone in a private conversation to agree before it’s recorded.

Privacy

Clipback has no accounts, servers, analytics or tracking. The privacy policy has the details.