Call Recording is rolling out to some Google Pixel phones now – here’s how to use it

• Call Recording is rolling out to the Pixel 6 and newer
• This feature is coming to phones that don't support Call Notes
• It allows you to record calls through the Phone app

If you have one of Google’s latest phones, then you may well have access to Call Notes – an AI-powered feature that can record your calls and make transcripts and summaries of them. This feature is now quite widely available, with the latest Pixel Feature Drop bringing it to more countries too, including the UK and Australia. But not all Pixels support this, and if yours doesn’t, Google has an alternative.

The company has started rolling out Call Recording to all models from the Pixel 6 up that don’t support Call Notes. In practice, that means the Pixel 6 series, the Pixel 7 series, the Pixel 8 series, and the Pixel 9a.

To get it, you additionally need Android 14 or above and the latest version of the Phone app, then just open the Phone app, head to its settings screen, and tap ‘Call Recording’.

Record calls from anyone and everyone

On this screen you’ll find a few options, including one to turn Call Recording on and another to automatically record calls with non-contacts. You can also choose to automatically record calls from specific numbers, and you can manage if and when recordings are automatically deleted.

So configure all this to your liking, but at a minimum you’ll probably want to enable the Call Recording toggle, so you at least have the option to record calls. With that done, once on a call you’ll find the option to record the conversation in the Call Assist menu, which will be visible on the call screen.

Once you tap the Call Recording button, there will be a countdown followed by a message that tells everyone on the call that it’s being recorded. To stop recording mid-call, hit the ‘Stop’ button in the Call Assist menu. And to play the recording after the call, you’ll find it in the Home tab of the Phone app.

So this is a potentially useful feature, and it’s nice to see Google trying to come up with alternative options for phones that don’t support its advanced AI tools.

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