As a person in a one-party-consent state, it absolutely infuriates me that it announces the recording is happening.
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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.
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.
It wasn't "taken away", it was removed. But it's an extremely useful feature.
take away means remove
No it doesn't. "Taken away" means it was taken by a third party. That's not what happened. Google removed it themselves.
no, it doesn't matter who took it

Yes. It does. The phrase implies force. Google cannot "take" something that they already own.
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
Interesting.
My native phone app also supports call recording, but it needs to be manually activated each time.
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.
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.
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.
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).
It explicitly says the recordings stay on my device.
But yeah, if it didn't say that, I'd guess the same.
Then why do you have to agree to Google's ToS to use it if it's local only?
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