- The Google Pixel 9 is the first Google phone in the US to support call recording.
- Although the Phone by Google app supports recording phone calls, the functionality is disabled on Pixel phones regardless of region.
- Thanks to the new Call Notes feature on the Pixel 9, though, you can finally record phone calls.
Regular old phone calls aren’t nearly as popular as they used to be, but many big financial and medical institutions still use them to share important information. That’s why many people still record calls on their Android phones. Unfortunately, many Android phones don’t let you record phone calls, including Google’s Pixel phones. That’s finally changed with the launch of the Google Pixel 9 series, which adds a feature that not only lets you record calls but also transcribe and summarize them.
Recording phone calls sounds like it should be easy, but due to legal regulations, the feature isn’t enabled out of the box on many Android devices. Android only allows the preinstalled system dialer app to record the audio of a phone call, which is why many third-party call recorder apps for Android use hacky workarounds that may or may not work. So if you want to record a phone call on your Android device, you need to hope that your device’s OEM provides a call recording feature in its dialer app or one of the third-party call recording apps works for your device.