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That said, there are some regional limitations to phone call recording.

The feature is extremely easy to use, provided you know where to look for the record button.

A phone call on an iphone 12, running iOS 18.1, with the call record feature available

Here’s how you might record a phone call if you’ve upgraded to iOS 18.1.

Press record

The call recording features whether you’re placing the call or receiving it.

In addition to phone calls, it works with Face Time audio calls.

press the record button in the upper left corner of the call screen

Apple indicates that call recording is limited to two-person conversations.

On the call screen,tap the waveform iconin the upper left corner.

A countdown will appear on your screen, withan X that you might tap to cancel the recording.

tapping the red record button ends a recording while allowing your phone call to continue

End the recording

You have two options to end the recording.

The easiest is topress the red End Call button, which automatically stops the recording.

This latter option allows you to continue your phone call after the recording has ended.

access the phone app settings from the Settings app and select apps then phone

By default, phone call recording is enabled within the tweaks of the Phone app.

If you’d like to turn off the feature, you’ll need to launch the options app.

Go to Phone tweaks

From the main screen in the tweaks app,select Apps,followed byPhone.

select call recording in phone app settings and turn the switch to off

Turn off Call Recording

On the Phone parameters menu,select Call Recording.

On the ensuing screen,toggle the slider to offto deactivate the call recording feature.

Looking for the audio files of the calls you’ve recorded in the Phones app?

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Head toiOS 18 Notes, where your recordings will be stored as separate note, with their own transcript.

Of course, to do all that, you’ll need toinstall iOS 18.1andactivate Apple Intelligence features.

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