iOS 18 Can Record and Transcribe Your Phone Calls

[anthogag]

Can a user start recording anytime during a phone call? Recording has to be quick because I may want to start recording a phone call mid-call. Or, does it record every call and I have the option to delete the recording/transcript after the call...

 

[Mailia]

Not in the USA you need to tell.

I don't care, I can eat Kinder Eggs.

 

[jwolf6589]

I don't care, I can eat Kinder Eggs.

The police will find you.

 

[cardfan]

I don’t want it prompting. Just make it default

 

[n-evo]

Not in the USA you need to tell.

Not everyone on Earth lives there.

 

[nawr]

Nothing gets me more excited about iOS 18 than T9 dialing, it’s finally here!!

 

[thejadedmonkey]

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

They already tell you that all calls are recorded for whatever reason.

 

[gaximus]

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

how do you know what bugs they are fixing, they’ve never announced a bug fix before?

 

[Jonas Danielsson]

Not in the USA you need to tell.

But USA cannot think by them self?
How dose it work if you record a phone call with a mic? No one will tell anyone

 

[CitrusLuna]

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

eSIM is also the SIM card. It's the SIM card but not including the physical chip.

 

[mrhick01]

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.

People are still prosecuting this as an issue?!?

Why troll us and compromise our quality of life? Have you no shame?

Oh, the humanity!

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Will this pick up heavy breathing or no?

 

[surfzen21]

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

Probably not for legal reasons. In the USA some states are two party consent states.

 

[Randomnewperson]

These are the 2 party consent states. All others are 1 party or no party.

California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.

 

[CarAnalogy]

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.

Was this written by ChatGPT trained on Macrumors forums?

 

[CarAnalogy]

These are the 2 party consent states. All others are 1 party or no party.

California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.

Well...maybe not no party...that would just be silence...

 

[cardfan]

I would take the auto transcription and don’t really need the voice recording (which is the legal constraint). That’s preferable anyways. I just want a quick way to review a conversation if needed.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Probably not for legal reasons. In the USA some states are two party consent states.

Including the only state that matters, California.

Edit: this is sarcasm.

 

[CarAnalogy]

I would take the auto transcription and don’t really need the voice recording (which is the legal constraint). That’s preferable anyways. I just want a quick way to review a conversation if needed.

Not sure how it could transcribe without at least temporarily creating a recording. Probably not enough of a legal distinction to matter. They'd still need to assume it's a two party consent recording. Is a machine that's taking notes an unauthorized eavesdropper?

 

[NT1440]

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

Is that confirmed? If it’s built using Apples standard APIs you get a lot of stuff for “free”. If you haven’t confirmed it with hands on, I’d wait before jumping to that conclusion.

 

[211]

How will the person be notified? It must be by voice as app/message notifications wouldn’t work with landlines. Also, can you record or stop recording later in the call? I guess I’ll have to call and record someone to find out

 

[iwan073]

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.

Just wondering why you would want to sort your contacts by date/time added?

I usually sort by name, so you can find the person you want to call.
Never had the need to look for someone I added in march 2014, so I could give them a call.

 

[frozen220]

Just wondering why you would want to sort your contacts by date/time added?

I usually sort by name, so you can find the person you want to call.
Never had the need to look for someone I added in march 2014, so I could give them a call.

You’ve never met a new person, don’t recall their name, and then don’t know how to find their contact info? Happens to me all the time.

 

[frozen220]

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.

What if you don’t remember their name?? How do you find them??

 

[tgwaste]

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

Yep. This is absolute garbage especially for those like me who live in one-party states. No one should be able to know what I'm doing on my phone.