- Google appears to be backing down from its long-standing position against letting Pixel phones record voice calls.
- The company has already updated support pages, indicating that the option may exist for Pixel 6 and later models.
- So far we’ve only seen confirmation out of India, and it’s unclear which markets will ultimately get access.
Smartphones may do a million and one different things, but at their very core, these devices are still phones. You may not make a ton of voice calls anymore, but plenty of users still do, which just serves to make it all the more frustrating that voice calls haven’t routinely gotten the same kind of attention and feature upgrades as all the other corners of our phone.
One space where that’s noticeably true is in terms of call recording — these are fully digital devices, with mountains of storage, and it makes all the sense in the world to let us archive voice calls the same way we do text messages. The varying legalities behind doing so in different jurisdictions don’t help the problem any, and that’s left phones like Google’s Pixel series without the option — at least, Call Notes notwithstanding.