Recording a phone call on your iPhone comes in handy from time to time. It may be that you want to record an interviewee, or some valuable advice from your therapist (assuming they agree with it) and even your father’s lullaby to get your kid to sleep. But is there any way to do it? After all, Apple isn’t making it any easier for users. Well, we found a couple of ways to record a phone call on your iPhone, including some useful apps.
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Before we talk about the easiest way to record a phone conversation on your iPhone, you have to take into account a couple of things.
First, there’s a reason Apple doesn’t have a native app for that – security.
For that same reason, the company doesn’t allow third-party software access to the microphone while the phone app is in use.
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If you do decide to go through with it, despite that, then one more piece of advice: get consent or look into the laws regarding this matter in your state. Some of them will only require one-party consent (which can be you) but others need both parties to be on the same page. Make sure you’re not breaking the law by trying to record the call.
With that said, the easiest way to record a phone call is to use your iPhone’s… voicemail.
First of all, make sure you have it enabled 😉
Then, start your call. Once the recipient answers, you will see several options appear, including an add call one.
Tap the button and you will have to choose a person to add from your contacts list. Go to your own number and select it.
Tap the dial button to add your number a.k.a. the voice-box, wait for the beep that signals that your recording has started and then look for the merge option on your phone app screen.
Tap it to merge calls; this action will, in return, treat your two-person call into an outright conference. Because the third person in is your voicemail, the convo will be saved as an inbox message.
To save it, select the Voicemail option from the Phone app, tap to share and direct it to your e-mail or save it to your computer.
How to Record a Phone Call On iPhone With Google Voice
Now, there’s another way to record a phone call just in case you don’t have or want to have a voicemail enabled.
And that option is to use Google Voice. This is also a free service, with a downside however – you can only record incoming calls not outgoing ones.
To start, you have to set up an account on Google Voice, porting your iPhone number, and then enable call recording so that your conversations are saved as MP3 files.
Once you receive the incoming call you’ve been waiting for, make sure you answer it from within the app by using the Google Voice number provided. Then, hit 4 on your dial pad to start recording and again to stop the recording or just hang up.
This is important! The caller will be notified of the recording during the phone call by a pre-registered voice so there’s no chance you can keep this a secret.
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To find your convo later, check Calls and Voicemail tab. Then, simply select the audio file and crank up the volume.
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… via app. Yes, I know both of the tricks I showed you above are technically free of charge but if that seems like too much of a hassle, you should know you can actually use an app to do it for you.
Call recorder apps can’t tap into your iPhone’s microphone because… Apple so they instead use a recording line. This means the app can listen in a 3-way conference call by being that third “caller”.
Many apps charge you for just downloading the app itself but the following two operate a bit differently.
This app is free to download but has to use pre-paid credit or pay-as-you-go to get in your calls. The calls are made over VoIP and the call is calculated by destination and minute.
If you’re wondering whether it works with international calls too, yes, it does. It supports both hold and conference calling. Your have to use a GSM carrier, though.
In recordings, it shows phone number and name of outgoing calls and even history and the saved recording can go straight to your email once the IntCall app is done.
This app is also free and able to record an unlimited number of conversations, both outgoing and incoming. The way it saves and shares convos is extremely versatile, working with services like Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive (from where you can also delete them) and email, iMessage and social media platforms.
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Yes, you can. It’s not the nicest thing to do but if you’re convinced you want to go ahead with it, from whatever reasons, there is an app for that.
TapeACall has a free and a paid version and it’s pretty straightforward to use.
First, download the app from AppStore, then make your call and during it, open the TapeACall and press record. This will make, in turn, a call to them and help you merge the one-on-one conversation with the third party.
As I explained before, it will essentially become a three-way conference.
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Now, let’s say you’ve recorded your phone call and to get “on paper” the whole thing. Instead of painstakingly write the things you said and the following replies, you can ask an app to do the job for you.
Rev Call Recorder app has this service, too. While it is, first and foremost, a recording call app it will convert the call to text, as well. Just check out the process:
And if you want to get a 2-in-1, then you should know the Rev Call Recorder app can save unlimited call recordings (incoming and outgoing), having unlimited storage. You do have to create an account for it, which will require your number.
So, did this guide help you out? Will you try an app or take the voicemail route? Let me know!
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Carmela (Ella)
August 16, 2021 at 4:27 am
I understand all steps to record a call however you say make sure Voicemail is “enabled” and as much as I’ve used iPhones since the 4s, I do not understand how to “enable” voicemail” Can you please send me a bit more details as in my state it is allowed to record others without their knowledge by law.
I used to and will eventually get back “TAPE A CALL PRO” as I used it for many years and it was pretty much perfect and if I had a problem example you have to go into each call after you’re done and name it so you know what the call was about it automatically puts it in a file with the date and time but I would always forget to name it so I would contact the company by email and they would send me all of my calls in a CSV format that would download directly from my phone email to The app excel so I could go back and listen to any call I wanted and then start naming them. Because I’m disabled on long-term care it was a task because I was on the phone a lot at that time but I have an iPhone 11 that is not working properly even though it’s new and I have no way to go out without putting my health and life at risk with these mutations especially the Delta mutation.
I also want to mention that I wish she would find a friend that does the news reporting online or a blog to explain that there are millions of people just like me, seniors disabled long-term care sick and cannot get the vaccine it would kill us has already killed abt 2 million people because they did not follow FDA guidelines. (12-20 yrs of studies) it is a live vaccine which is more dangerous than SARS. A 13 year old boy died a few weeks ago from the vaccine and they are saying more than 30% of the children will die from it.
I am in a situation where I really need to tape a call however I need the one that I had and continue with that one because I paid for it and I have to go into a store probably Apple to have my phone fixed before I can download anything other than what I already have on my phone I mean I have an iPhone 11 and I paid extra for 256 gigs. As I have a laptop that does not work and I don’t know how to fix however it can be fixed and upgrade it to maybe 3 TB and maybe an external hard drive as well but living on SSDI doesn’t afford me the ability to get apps that cost money and tape of calls company at least many years ago when I was using it a lot saved me from so many things because I had the recording I can’t even tell you how important it is to be able to record your calls incoming or outgoing.
People change what they say all the time to make it better for them and I’m very lucky that I’m in a state where I don’t have to tell them but like I said please send me details about how to enable voicemail before I start the recording because I don’t understand that part unless I just click voicemail and I’m in voicemail and I go to add my number I don’t understand and I know how this song works so I’m confused so if you could please send me details of how to do this or even step-by-step directions so that I can do this correctly because it is of the utmost importance and urgency is key to all of this.
I thank you for your time and for putting this on the Internet because once I figure out from your instructions how this works until I can get tape a car pro back it will definitely make a huge difference in my life
God bless you and I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible