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If you've ever had an interview or a work meeting over the phone, you know it can be difficult to focus on the call and take notes at the same time. Apple introduced call recording to your iPhone in 2024, so you can pay attention to the call without missing something important.
Call recording can be helpful for people who use their iPhones for business or work, or to keep track of important instructions given over the phone. Once a call is recorded, it's saved to your phone, and you can listen to the call again or read the transcript in your Notes app.
Before you record calls, check your local laws on call recording. According to the law resource website Justia, many states are one-party consent states, which means only one person has to consent to a phone call being recorded. In some states, like California, it's illegal to record a call without the consent of both parties.
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Here's how to record a call and read the call's transcript.
What to know about phone call recording on your iPhone
Recording a call on your iPhone is pretty straightforward. Once you're on a call with someone, tap More in the bottom left corner of your screen and then tap Call Recording.
After that, you and the person on the other line will hear a 3-second countdown and an automated voice say, "This call will be recorded," followed by a tone.
You can stop recording the call at any time by hanging up or by tapping the Stop button on your screen. If you tap the Stop button, the same automated voice from before will then 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 recording a call, you can find the recording in your Notes app. It will be saved as "Call Recording" in the app, but you can rename it whatever you want, like you would any other note in the app.
To listen to the recording, tap the note and tap the Play button. You can also fast forward or rewind the recording like you would any other song or podcast.
If you want to read the transcript, tap the Preview button below the Play button. The transcript will take up the whole screen.
In this new screen, you can tap the three dots (...) in the top right corner and then tap Add Transcript to Note to transfer a copy of the transcript to the recording's note. This lets you scroll through the transcript and listen back to the recording at the same time.
Once the transcript is in the note, you can scroll through the transcript to find what you're looking for. To save yourself time, you can also tap the three dots (...) in the top right corner and tap Find in Note to search for a specific word within the transcript.
For more iOS news, here's my review of iOS 26, as well as how to reduce the Liquid Glass effects and how to block spam calls in the update. You can also check out our iOS 26 cheat sheet.
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