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New Google Play policy change will effectively cause third-party call recording apps starting May 11

Nowadays recording calls has become the most necessary part of the smartphone whether it’s for personal reasons or professional, majority of the smartphone users have a third-party call recording app on their smartphone. Some of them use the built-in call recording feature from the device itself.

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But now things will be changed from the 11th of May, users will not be able to use any third-party call recorder to record the incoming or the outgoing calls this will increase the privacy and security of the user’s data.

Recently, Google takes another step by increasing security for Android smartphone users, and it has decided to permanently remove all the third-party apps that allow recording calls on Android. This will cause all third-party apps to record calls available on the Play Store unusable.

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Google says this API has not been developed and can not be applied for voice calls. Google eliminates the API that allows one or more free apps for Android. Google took this step to protect users’ privacy.

Notably, if your device comes preloaded with the call recording feature, you have nothing to worry about it will continue to work as intended. This upcoming change will only apply to third-party apps on the Play Store that specifically use the Accessibility API to enable call recording. The Google Phone app, which offers built-in call recording, is exempt from the change.

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