This is in the native phone app. I’m in the US. Definitely didn’t have this feature before. It announces when you start recording.

I know it’s been a thing with some other phones and in other countries, but hey it’s cool to have it on my Pixel 8.

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I love the feature, I hate that it announces the call being recorded in a 1 party state but the call notes summary feature is fantastic

pie
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so the call recording stays on the device yet they added a tos for it?

what trick is this? could someone link this tos?
this is just a response to apple offering this function on iphones.

for ages google blocked call recording and since apple started implementing it they turned it on now? lol.

@[email protected]
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Another reason to hate google. This feature got taken away for legal reasons in many regions. The Google dialer app is absolute trash now after the last big update.

artyom
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It wasn’t “taken away”, it was removed. But it’s an extremely useful feature.

Eager Eagle
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take away means remove

artyom
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No it doesn’t. “Taken away” means it was taken by a third party. That’s not what happened. Google removed it themselves.

Eager Eagle
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no, it doesn’t matter who took it

artyom
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Yes. It does. The phrase implies force. Google cannot “take” something that they already own.

Eager Eagle
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lol sure, sure

artyom
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Haha right, right

guessing it’ll be pixel only feature

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Finally!

Got it here on my Pixel 7 Pro in the US, and specifically a 2-party state.

It initially said it was ‘pending’ downloading some audio files (I assume the announcement that it’s recording, which is all that’s needed legally) - and after I tapped the download button it seems ready to go.

@[email protected]
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As a person in a one-party-consent state, it absolutely infuriates me that it announces the recording is happening.

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Or was blanket removed in the first place. That’s one of the factors keeping me on custom ROMs, I’ve had silent call recording for the last 15 years.

pie
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you should know if you are recorded. its a good thing.

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Suggesting that I need some other party’s permission to record is as absurd as saying I need their permission to remember.

pie
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you can record without consent if you want. but you can be sued and pay damages if the recording goes in public/you share it with other people etc in some countries is ilegal to record without consent.

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No, I can be sued and ignore the court with impunity because there’s a thing called “jurisdiction” and they don’t have it.

You don’t seem to get it: there is absolutely nothing wrong with me recording without the other party’s knowledge and they have no power to impose their will on me otherwise because the governing law is the one in my jurisdiction, not theirs!

Don’t like it? Too bad.

Lka1988
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I’ve had call recording for the better part of a decade. But I use Skvalex’s app, and recordings actually stay on my device.

artyom
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Got it on my P7 as well. Although it doesn’t seem to be working.

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This has been a feature since at least 2012 on every Android I’ve tested and it never required google. Pixels can’t be that far behind. Since it’s advertising Google, I bet the recording feature is sending it straight to the cloud before or after writing the file locally (or writing it straight to google drive).

@[email protected]
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It explicitly says the recordings stay on my device.
But yeah, if it didn’t say that, I’d guess the same.

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I dont trust a word Google says regarding privacy.

Max-P
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Then why do you have to agree to Google’s ToS to use it if it’s local only?

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Probably a line about how they’re not liable if you record in a place where recording isn’t allowed.

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I know the guy who did this with stock android phone. https://healthygreendinosaur.blogspot.com/2023/12/call-recording-setup-on-samsung-galaxy.html?m=1

It worked but its recordings were quiet. It saved him 900 bucks from a predatory about their own negligence debt collector.

Onno (VK6FLAB)
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Interesting.

My native phone app also supports call recording, but it needs to be manually activated each time.

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