What you need to know
- User reports suggest that Google is starting to move forward with the recording of native calls in its telephone application on Pixel phones.
- A user with a Pixel 9a has spotted the recording of calls appear, but others with a Pixel 8A and a Pixel 10 have not seen it.
- Google’s assistance page for calling for calls has been updated, and it now indicates that the functionality works on Pixel 6 and more recent models.
Google could have a response for the long -awaited call recording function on its phones, but its availability is incredibly sparse.
Recently, this week, a user on the Pixelusersindia sub-program published a screenshot a “call recording” setting on their phone (via Android authority). The parameter, captured on a 9a pixel, displays a flooded option for calling for calls, registration management and automatic call recording options. For the latter, the user notes the possibility of having their pixel “automatically record calls with non-contacts”, or he can write in which figures they would like his device to record.
The “Manage” side is simply a way for users to delete stored records or ask their pixel to do so for them.
Google provides a small explanation on the recording of calls, which indicates that the functionality will activate during a call (if it is activated). The company indicates that your recorded calls will remain on your device, and it reiterates the user’s ability to activate or deactivate the functionality at any time. What is interesting is that Google Pixel phones have previously failed in call recording functionality, which the publication highlights.
However, he also resumed a Google Update Assistance page About the recording of calls, which now details the steps to “always save”, “start a recording” and more. It seems that Google is really starting to move to a call for calling for its Pixel phones, but only for Pixel 6 and the more recent phones running Android 9 or more.
Is it really on the way?
Unfortunately, the user on Reddit seems to be the only one to have received this call recording function on his pixel. It appears strangely on the Pixel 9a first, which would think that Google will first abandon this on its Pixel 10 series. Anyway, if Google really brings it to users in a more coherent way, we may have a more concrete announcement for that. Currently, Pixel 8A and Pixel 10 users on Reddit Execution of the telephone application V191.0.805002009 (public beta) do not see it.
It’s been a while, but we were talking about recording calls on Pixel devices five years ago, but there were serious problems that Google encountered. Legality is that the characteristic has been called into question, because government laws and states have been presented. These state laws, such as “all states” and “one party”, oblige citizens to respect a different set of rules. For the former, the two parties on the appeal must recognize and agree with the recorded call. However, a single party state requires only one person to know the call that will record.
Of course, one of the ways that users could keep an eye on a call and its content is with the call notes. A recent APK detangling reports that Google could delete its audio warning that the call is saved to help users remain a little stealth. It seems that, instead of a vocal non-responsibility clause, the call notes could play a gentle chime to allow users to know that the call is recorded.
