How to Enable Automatic Call Recording for Unknown Numbers on Android

Call recording has become a very debatable feature on smartphones recently. You can easily find people with two different opinions about call recording, one will praise the feature for preserving an important call, while the other will criticise it over privacy concerns. Well if you are from people having the first point of view, then this article is for you. Google has recently pushed an update for their phone dialer app, which lets you enable Call Recording for call unknown numbers, that too automatically. Today we are going to discuss how you can enable it on your phone.

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How to Enable Automatic Call Recording for Unknown Number on Google Phone App?

Now a days majority of new phone comes with Google Apps, as the default app for Phone, Messages, and Contacts. This is because, Google has made it mandatory for Smartphone brands to ship the phone with Google’s own apps to make the overall experience of Android better, seamless, and ad free.

So if you happen to have Google Phone app as the default calling app on your phone, then follow these steps to enable Automatic Call Recording for all unknown numbers.

  • Open the Google Phone Dialer on your Phone.
  • Click the 3 dots (top right).
  • Go to Call Recording.
  • Here you can Enable the toggle for Numbers not in your contacts.
  • You can also specify certain numbers to always record call from them.
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Note: Just like the regular call recording on Google Phone app, whenever you turn on, or automatically record a call. Then the person at the other end of the call will be notified that the Call is being recorded.

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The feature is currently being rolled out to user in a phased manner. Even we are not able to access it on most phones. So if you don’t find it in your phone then you need to wait for sometime till it becomes available for masses. Also the feature is only available in regions where call recording is allowed by the law of the land.

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