How to Record Calls on Your iPhone
Did you know you can easily record your conversations?
With iOS 26, Apple expanded its call recording feature with transcripts, live translation, summaries, and tighter integration with the Notes app (depending on your region).
Call recording itself first arrived with iOS 18.1 in October 2024. The feature has always been region and language dependent, and that hasn’t changed. If it’s available where you live, you can record calls directly from the Phone app without any third-party apps or additional hardware. Here’s how it works.
Apple maintains a feature availability page that lists the countries where call recording isn’t available, including the European Union, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. If your country is on this list, you won’t see the option in the Phone app.
Before you can record a phone call, you’ll need the consent of the person on the other end of the line. When you start recording, both parties will hear an audible notification that the call is being recorded.
How to record a call
Open the Phone app.
Start or answer a call.
During a call, tap the More button.
Select Call Recording.
The call continues normally, but iPhone automatically saves the entire recording when you hang up. You’ll find all recordings in the native Notes app for iOS, in a folder called Call Recordings.
How to listen to or delete recordings
Apple has made this section as easy as possible. To listen to a recording, open Notes, go to the Call Recordings folder, and tap the file you want. Tap Play to listen to it.
All the options for using the recording:
Search: Tap the More button and choose Find in Transcript.
Copy: Tap the More button and choose Add Transcript to Note or Copy Transcript.
Save: Tap the More button and select Save Audio Files, then choose where you want to save the recording (another folder or app).
Share: Tap the More button and select Share Audio, then choose how you want to share the recording.
Delete: Tap the More button and select Delete. This deletes the recording and any associated transcripts.