Some new policy changes are coming in on May 11 that will kill all Android call recording apps in the Play Store, but there is a small saving grace.
A person might want to record their call due to many reasons. It could be a call packed with instructions for something that you don’t have the time to note down, a means to have reassurance and evidence about a conversation that you might want to reference later on, and more.sees more negatives than positives when it comes to this topic. Starting May 11, 2022, it will officially make changes to the Google Play Store policies that will disallow any Android call recording apps to exist.
Google itself also came out to address the policy changes in a developer webinar. “The Accessibility API is not designed and cannot be requested for remote call audio recording,” says the search giant. The reasons behind this decision are probably what you have already guessed—privacy and security.The good news is that even though Play Store apps won’t be able to offer call recording anymore, that’s not true for pre-installed first-party ones.
During the webinar where the company addressed this change, Google stated that as long as the app is the default dialer or is pre-loaded, it does not need accessibility capability to access the incoming audio stream, and won’t be a violation. Who knows, some new loophole might come around later on. For now, however, it seems developers will either have to comply with the new policy. If not, Google might very well take down the apps that fail to do so.Get the most important news, reviews and deals in mobile tech delivered straight to your inbox
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