iOS 18 Can Record and Transcribe Your Phone Calls

[MacRumors]

One of the interesting new features coming in iOS 18 will let you automatically record and transcribe your live phone calls through the Phone app.

After answering a call or placing a call, you can enable recording. All call participants are notified that the call is being recorded, so there are no surprises and everyone is aware of the recording from the start. As the call is recorded, the iPhone is also able to provide a transcript.

The upcoming Apple Intelligence features can generate a summary of key points that were included in the call, so you can look back at what was important at a glance.

Phone call transcription will be available in English (U.S., UK, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore), Spanish (U.S., Mexico, Spain), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland, Taiwan), Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong), and Portuguese (Brazil).

Other new features for the Phone app include a search interface for call history, autofill for a number when you start typing in digits, and the option to seamlessly switch SIM cards.

Apple also plans to bring the same audio and transcription features to the Notes app, so you can record audio and get a live transcript on the iPhone 12 and later.

Article Link: iOS 18 Can Record and Transcribe Your Phone Calls

 

[ThomasJL]

iOS 18: So many new features, so few bug fixes.

Long-standing iOS bugs (from many previous iOS versions) will not be fixed in iOS 18.

With more new features than ever before, iOS 18 will likely be the buggiest release in iOS history.

Tim Cook is a greedy corporate scumbag who is far more concerned about making money than providing customers a user-friendly user experience.

iOS 18 will still include a user-unfriendly Microsoft-pioneered flat design GUI instead of a user-friendly Apple-pioneered skeuomorphic design GUI.

Cook's most colossal failure of a decision was firing Scott Forstall. iOS was a far superior under Forstall's leadership. Forstall's masterpiece iOS 6 was the pinnacle of smartphone operating systems.

 

[Havalo]

Let’s hope there is an option to turn off notifying others of recording.

 

[jz0309]

All call participants are notified that the call is being recorded, so there are no surprises and everyone is aware of the recording from the start.

that's the important piece, as at least in California, it's illegal to record a call without announcing or consent ...

Wonder what Apple support will have to say if you turn this on while on a call to them

 

[jz0309]

Let’s hope there is an option to turn off notification re recording.

that would be illegal in CA and probably other places, so, there better not be that option

 

[mansplains]

So much better than hopping on speakerphone and using voice memos, or a third party alternative.

 

[james948]

But no transcription for voicenotes. You know the thing with which you make notes with your voice.

 

[Aoligei]

Gosh. Apple went all out to copy Android this year.

 

[frozen220]

I still can’t believe after 17 years there is no way to sort contacts by date/time added. Please tell me iOS 18 finally does this so I don’t need to use a third party app.

 

[klasma]

This will likely be gimped by having the "wrong" system language set.

 

[brofkand]

But no transcription for voicenotes. You know the thing with which you make notes with your voice.

I thought that was one of the AI features?

 

[alexandr]

Gosh. Apple went all out to copy Android this year.

By offering call recording?.. This has been a thing long before smartphones existed.

 

[klasma]

I still can’t believe after 17 years there is no way to sort contacts by date/time added. Please tell me iOS 18 finally does this so I don’t need to use a third party app.

Nope. This is the typical Apple way of having a swiss-cheese feature set.

 

[Macalway]

This I like. I'll try it with some calls I get

 

[Samu25]

What happens when the other party objects to being recorded? Will you be able to turn it off on the fly? Or will you need to end the call first? 🤔

 

[Peepo]

In Canada, I am allowed to legally record a call that I am a party of, even if the others are not made aware, as long as it is not for commercial purposes. If I am making a call to someone on behalf of a company, the other party should be notified. Apple is probably covering themselves here from liability just in case.

 

[ApAx]

I still can’t believe after 17 years there is no way to sort contacts by date/time added. Please tell me iOS 18 finally does this so I don’t need to use a third party app.

This seems like a niche use case. In my years of experience working in UI/UX, people remember and search for/select contacts by name, not metadata such as create date.

 

[mashdots]

iOS 18: So many new features, so few bug fixes.

Long-standing iOS bugs (from many previous iOS versions) will not be fixed in iOS 18.

With more new features than ever before, iOS 18 will likely be the buggiest release in iOS history.

Tim Cook is a greedy corporate scumbag who is far more concerned about making money than providing customers a user-friendly user experience.

iOS 18 will still include a user-unfriendly Microsoft-pioneered flat design GUI instead of a user-friendly Apple-pioneered skeuomorphic design GUI.

Cook's most colossal failure of a decision was firing Scott Forstall. iOS was a far superior under Forstall's leadership. Forstall's masterpiece iOS 6 was the pinnacle of smartphone operating systems.

This whole message is both unhinged and hilarious. I love satire.

 

[MrRom92]

How intrusive is this notification? There should be an option to turn it off if the main address on the Apple ID is registered in a 1 party consent state.

 

[Wasp14]

that would be illegal in CA and probably other places, so, there better not be that option

Legal in all of Canada (one party consent) so at least being geographically aware could help here. Otherwise voice memos it is still.

 

[mashdots]

Let’s hope there is an option to turn off notifying others of recording.

Could be interesting, although I wonder how they'd pull that one off since some US states require consent prior to having phone calls recorded.

 

[Jkeith85]

Gosh. Apple went all out to copy Android this year.

How so?

 

[Mailia]

What happens when the other party objects to being recorded? Will you be able to turn it off on the fly? Or will you need to end the call first? 🤔

They hang up because I don't need their consent. I'm not even required to tell them that I'm recording.

 

[jwolf6589]

One of the interesting new features coming in iOS 18 will let you automatically record and transcribe your live phone calls through the Phone app.

After answering a call or placing a call, you can enable recording. All call participants are notified that the call is being recorded, so there are no surprises and everyone is aware of the recording from the start. As the call is recorded, the iPhone is also able to provide a transcript.

The upcoming Apple Intelligence features can generate a summary of key points that were included in the call, so you can look back at what was important at a glance.

Phone call transcription will be available in English (U.S., UK, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore), Spanish (U.S., Mexico, Spain), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland, Taiwan), Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong), and Portuguese (Brazil).

Other new features for the Phone app include a search interface for call history, autofill for a number when you start typing in digits, and the option to seamlessly switch SIM cards.

Apple also plans to bring the same audio and transcription features to the Notes app, so you can record audio and get a live transcript on the iPhone 12 and later.

Article Link: iOS 18 Can Record and Transcribe Your Phone Calls

SIM cards???? My iPhone no longer uses physical cards.

 

[jwolf6589]

They hang up because I don't need their consent. I'm not even required to tell them that I'm recording.

Not in the USA you need to tell.