Get More Out of Your iPhone: Recording and Transcription on iOS

In this episode, Thomas Domville demonstrates the call recording and transcription feature in iOS 18.1. This update brings an exciting built-in call recording capability to iPhones. Recording a call is straightforward: just double-tap the Record button in the top left corner during a call (note that you might need to hide the keypad to see the button). A voice message will notify all participants that the call is being recorded. These recordings are saved directly in the Notes app, which uses end-to-end encryption to keep your conversations private. To review a call, simply go to the Notes app, and you'll find your recordings securely stored there. Additionally, iOS 18.1 offers automatic transcription, generating real-time captions and notes during your call. This feature makes it easy to reference important points later, with transcriptions handled entirely on your device to ensure privacy, with no data sent to external servers. Furthermore, supported iPhone models can provide summaries of these recordings, making it even easier to keep track of your conversations.

Transcript

Disclaimer: This transcript was generated by Aiko, an AI-powered transcription app. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.

Hello and welcome.

My name is Thomas Domville, also known as AnonyMouse.

I want to show you a feature called call recording and transcription.

This is a beautiful feature that allows you to record your phone call.

And yes, you're able to get a transcription of what transpired within that conversation of the phone call.

Very useful for any time that you want to record a meeting or conversation.

Maybe perhaps you're doing an interview with somebody or just simply just want to record for keepsake.

Whether there's somebody close to your family you just want to have for record, for archival, or maybe you have a business transition or phone call you just want to make sure it's recorded.

Now a couple things I want to note about this feature is that I always like to let people know that I'm about to record them.

So it's kind of a respectful kind of a thing and not to get them caught off guard.

So some people can maybe kind of leery about those kind of things that you just all of a sudden you just pop on them that you're recording their phone calls and such.

Make sure you tell them that you're about to record them.

Now even though Apple put a great safety feature in this and if you begin the recording no matter what you do it's going to let that recorder know that the phone call is being recorded.

So that is a nice feature that Apple ensured that everybody knows that the phone call is being recorded.

Now before you can use this feature you'll have to turn this option on and that's within the settings.

So let's head over to settings.

Settings.

Double tap to open.

You one finger double tap on settings.

Settings.

Now what we're looking for and we're looking for the phone app.

Now the phone app now lives in the app section.

Yep.

So at the very bottom of the settings so I'm going to do a four fingers tap at the bottom half of my phone here.

Apps.

Button.

Which will directly to get me to the app button.

Double tap this to open up the app section.

Apps.

Asmer.

Button.

Now you have all the apps you have installed on your device.

You're going to swipe to the right until you find the phone button.

Now it could be way way down there just depending how many apps you have installed.

So let's go to the phone button.

Phone.

Button.

And in here double tap to open this up.

Allow phone to access.

Heading.

Now what we're looking for is call recording.

So swipe to the right until you find call recording.

Call recording.

On. Button.

Now my case is turned on so we got to make sure that is set on.

If it's off for you just do one finger double tap and then select to turn this option to on.

Now I'm going to show you how to use that.

So I'm going to place a phone call to my mom.

Yep.

Grandma mouse.

You get to hear for yourself.

I'm going to show you exactly where the recording button is.

Where you can initiate the recording.

And how to stop the recording.

And then after the phone conversation I'll show you where the phone call went.

Where did the actual audio go.

So I'll show you where that went along with the transcription.

So give my mom a call and say hi to her and show you how to do the recording.

Calling Carol Dumbville iPhone.

Focaster baby phone call.

This is context five.

OK everybody this is my mom.

This is grandma mouse for say.

And we're going to show everybody how to use this recording.

Now when you first call someone you need to let them know that you're about to say I'm going to record this phone call.

So that's kind of a respectful kind of a thing to let them know.

So they're not startled or caught off guard that you're doing the recording.

Now the first thing we have to do we have to hide the key.

You will notice that you have the nine key pen with the numbers.

You got the one two three four five six seven eight nine pound and star.

You need to go to the bottom of the device and I'm going to tap on the bottom half with my four fingers.

One tap.

Hide keypad.

Where you hear the hide keypad.

Let's double tap that.

Keypad button.

Now at the top left I'm going to do a four finger tap towards the top half.

Start call recording button.

You should hear the call start recording the phone call.

So I'm going to go ahead and do this and you're going to hear the Apple device will let my mom know that it's being recorded.

So let's do one finger double tap on that.

Start call recording.

More info.

Button.

This call will be recorded.

And once you hear that beep you know you're recording the phone call.

How are you mom?

How are you doing?

Say hi everybody on the podcast.

Hi everybody.

We're doing good.

You having a good day today mom?

Having a fantastic day.

Hopefully everybody else is too.

Awesome.

Thanks mom.

I'm going to show them how to turn this off and then I'll hang up with you.

Okay.

Sure.

Okay.

Now I'm going to go to the top left hand corner.

Now the record button is not there you notice but as you swipe to the right you'll find the stop the recording.

So let's go to the top left.

More info.

Button.

Where you have the more info button.

Now let's go to the right until we find the stop recording.

Two minutes. 23 seconds.

Carol Reidlbatch Domville.

One.

A left.

Stop call recording.

Button.

And there it is.

So one finger double tap.

Stop call recording.

No longer being recorded.

And now my mom gets the announcement that I stopped recording.

Thank you so much mom.

You're welcome.

Bye bye.

Bye bye.

Now you're asking yourself where in the world did it go?

That's a great question.

And that audio lives within Notes.

Yep of all apps it is a built-in native iOS app that comes with your device called Notes.

So you'll have to find that Notes app.

Once you find Notes.

Notes.

Double tap to open.

Well go ahead and do one finger double tap and open.

Notes.

Call with Carol Reidlbatch Domville.

Modified for 17 p.m.

One audio recording.

Swipe up or down to select a custom action.

Then double tap to activate.

And there is the phone call.

Yep it is listening within your Notes.

Let's open this up and I'm going to show you everything you can do within this area.

Created October 25th, 2024 at 4 16 p.m.

All right so let's go at the very top.

I like to start at the top.

Kind of give you an overview of what you're looking at.

So let's go to the top half using four fingers.

Tap.

Notes.

Back button.

Well you get the Notes back button.

Let's go to the right.

Share.

Button.

More.

Button.

Created October 25th, 2024 at 4 16 p.m.

Note.

Call with Carol Reidlbatch Domville.

Call with Carol Reidlbatch Domville. 4 16 p.m.

Audio attachment.

One minute 17 seconds.

Text field.

Double tap to edit.

Actions.

Now the first one is a text field.

Yeah you can double tap that.

Change the text.

Change it up and give it a more of a description what it's about.

Whatever you want to do in that field feel free to do that.

Now what we're looking for is it recording itself.

So if you go to the right one more time.

Call with Carol Reidlbatch Domville. 4 16 p.m.

Audio attachment.

One minute 17 seconds.

Button.

Double tap to expand.

Actions available.

Now you hear that is a button.

So one finger double tap this.

Sheet grabber.

Button.

Double tap to dismiss sheet.

Do you find the sheet grabber that you just heard?

That is at the top left.

So just make sure you're up there to go ahead and just tap at the top left or use a forefinger tap.

Pop half your device.

Sheet grabber.

Alright so it is selected.

Now let's go to the right and I'm going to show you what's all on this screen.

Call with Carol Reidlbatch Domville.

Heading.

Today. 4 16 p.m.

One minute 17 seconds.

More.

Button.

Pop up summary.

Expand.

Button.

Those with Apple Intelligent you can get a summary of the phone call which is beautiful.

You have to have Apple Intelligent for this particular feature but the other two features to get the transcription and to be able to do the call recording it does not require Apple Intelligent.

Now right below this this is where the transcript lives.

You.

Button.

Double tap to scrub to this position.

Now this is the beautiful part about the transcription.

It knows and it's smart enough to know you and the caller itself.

So it says you and so it's going to hear me talking in that conversation.

I want to hear that beep.

You know you're recording the phone call.

How are your mom?

How are you doing?

Say hi everybody on the podcast.

Button.

Dub Carol Reidlbatch Domville.

Button.

Double tap to scrub to this position.

Now there's Carol Domville.

Hi everybody.

We're doing good.

Button.

Double tap to scrub to this position.

Now yes you could double tap and listen to that very particular position.

How cool is that?

But if you want to hear the whole conversation itself you go to the bottom half.

Done.

Button.

And the bottom right hand corner is the done.

So let's go back left until we find the media player.

Hide transcript and summary.

Button.

Go forward 15 seconds.

Button.

Play.

Button.

And to listen to the phone call you just double tap that.

Once you hear that beep you know you're recording the phone call.

How are you mom?

How you doing?

Say hi everybody on the podcast.

Hi everybody.

We're doing good.

I did a magic tap which is two finger double tap and that stops the conversation.

How cool is all that?

Now I did mention that you can go to specifically in a phone call and to be able to hear at that spot.

So let's go in the transcript here.

Having a fantastic day.

Hopefully everybody else is too.

Button.

Double tap to scrub to this position.

You.

Button.

Awesome.

Thanks mom.

I'm going to show them how to turn this off.

So let's go there.

So let's do one finger double tap on that.

Awesome.

Thanks mom.

Thanks mom.

I'm going to show them how to turn this off.

Is that not cool?

So that is how you use a call recording and transcription.

That so you have to go into the notes app and be sure to find that recording and you're able to play the whole conversation or you can just go to a specific portion of the phone conversation and start from that point.

So if it's a really long conversation, you just want to go back to a certain point.

And yes, you can even copy this if you want to keep the transcript.

And to do that, we'll go to the top left again to go through the top.

Sheet grabber.

Button.

And what we're looking for is the more info button.

So swipe to the right until you get to more info.

Call with Carol Riedelbatsch Domville today for 16 one minute 17 seconds.

More button.

There's your more button.

One finger double tap on that.

Rename.

Button.

Where you get the option to rename it.

Add transcript to note.

Button.

Copy transcript.

Button.

And that's how you copy the transcript itself.

How sweet is that?

Now as a bonus, there are some more things you can do with this.

If you go to the right.

Find in transcript.

Button.

Yes, you can search through the transcript.

That is very useful as well.

So you don't have to swipe, swipe, swipe until you find a very long lengthy 30 minute conversation of a particular conversation you want.

You can do a search.

And then lastly, as a bonus.

Save audio to files.

Button.

Yes, you can save the audio to files.

So meaning you can capture that audio and transfer it to your device so you can have a hard copy of the audio file itself.

So that is how you use the call recording with the transcript.

My name is Thomas Domville, also known as AnonyMouse.

Until next time, bye bye.