iOS 18.1: How to record phone calls on your iPhone with this new feature

Apple released iOS 18.2 on December 11, more than a month after the tech giant launched iOS 18.1 in October. The latest update brought many Apple Intelligence features such as Genmoji and Image Playgroundto some iPhones, but when Apple released iOS 18.1, it introduced call recording to the iPhone’s Phone app.

Read more: Everything you need to know about iOS 18

This feature can be useful for people who have an iPhone for their business or work, or to follow instructions given over the phone. Once the call is recorded, it is saved to your phone and you can listen back or read the transcript.

Here’s how to record a conversation and read the conversation transcript in iOS 18.1. Before recording conversations, you should check your local laws regarding the recording of conversations. According to the legal resource website justicemany states are unilateral consent states, meaning that only one person must consent to the telephone conversation being recorded. In some states, such as California, it is illegal to record a conversation without the consent of both parties.

What you need to know about recording phone calls on your iPhone

Recording a conversation on your iPhone is pretty easy. After chatting with someone, tap the symbol in the left corner of the screen that looks like a sound bar and the record button.

After you tap this button, you and the person on the other line will hear a three-second countdown and an automated voice saying, “This call will be recorded,” followed by a tone.

You can stop recording the call at any time by hanging up or tapping the Stop button on the screen. If you tap the Stop button, the same automated voice from before will say, “This call is no longer being recorded.” You can then continue your conversation without it being recorded.

Where to find phone call recordings on iPhone

After you record a conversation, you can find the recording in the Notes app. It will be saved as “Call Recording” in the app, but you can rename it to whatever you want, just like you would any other note in the app.

To listen to the recording, tap the note and tap Play button. You can fast forward or rewind the recording as you would any other song or podcast.

If you want to read the transcript, tap Transcript under Play and the transcript will take up your entire screen. You can tap the three dots (…) in the upper right corner, and then tap Add a transcript to the note to transfer a copy of the transcript to the record note. This allows you to scroll through the transcript and listen to the recording at the same time. You can read the transcript on the transcript page while listening to the recording, but there can be errors and sometimes the transcript disappears before reappearing a second later.

Once the transcript is in the note, you can scroll through the transcript to find what you’re looking for. To save time, you can also tap the three dots (…) in the upper right corner and tap Find in Note to search for a specific word in the transcript.

For more on iOS 18, here’s what you need to know iOS 18.2 and iOS 18.1 and ours iOS 18 cheat sheet. You can also check what your iPhone might come up with iOS 18.3.

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