• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Google Play Store Plans to Ban Voice Call Recording Apps

April 26, 2022 by Eddie Worrell Leave a Comment

Third-party call recording apps for Android are no longer supported as of May 11. Google announced several changes to its Play Store Developer Policy in April. One of the most important changes is that Android’s Accessibility API will no longer be used for remote call recording.

According to a report by The Verge, Google is cracking down on voice call recording apps in the Google Play Store. This ban includes any app that is designed for the sole purpose of recording calls, even if those calls are made through a third-party service like Skype. This decision comes as no surprise, as Google has been warning developers about this policy change since May.

The reports show that the shift is significant and will have an effect on many apps that allow you to record phone calls. This is not the first time Google has targeted Android’s call recording apps. Before version 6.0, Android had an official call recording API. This feature was removed by Google when Android 6.0 was launched. Developers have since come up with other ways to record incoming calls.

Google announced that Android 9.0 will not allow call recording workarounds. This was in response to another Google attack on call recording apps. Many users have now rooted their phones in order to access call recording apps.

Over the years, Google has been slowly closing down APIs used by programmers to record incoming audio. Developers have been able, starting with Android 10, to record calls audio using the AccessibilityAPI. This policy change aims to stop it. Google Play Store isn’t eliminating all call recording apps on Android.

It doesn’t restrict the apps that can use this functionality. In a video presentation, a Google presenter explained the changes. Both the Xiaomi and Google phones have call recording capabilities. This means that you can record calls even after changes have been made.

It’s not clear at this point how Google will implement these rules. We don’t know whether developers will make improvements prior to the policy changes taking effect on May 11, or if Google will simply start removing apps once that date has passed.

While it’s not clear exactly why Google Play Store is making this change, one possibility is that the company doesn’t want users to record calls in order to use them as evidence in legal proceedings. In fact, similar bans have been put into place in other countries, such as Germany and France.

It requires developers to remove any recording features from their apps or face removal from the App Store.

Eddie Worrell
Eddie Worrell

Related posts:

  1. Google Testing New YouTube Tool On Android For Collaborators
  2. GameStop Chief Executive Officer George Sherman Getting Millions For Leaving The Company
  3. Tesla Opts For Wider Release Of Beta Version Of Full Self-Driving Software To Include More Customers
  4. iPhone 13 Prices Starting at Rs. 6200? It’s not, it’s just the new Gionee G13Pro

Filed Under: Technology

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

  • Martian Mudstone Has Features That Might Be Biosignatures, New Brain Implant Can Decode Your Internal Monologue, And Much More This Week
  • Crocodiles Weren’t All Blood-Thirsty Killers, Some Evolved To Be Plant-Eating Vegetarians
  • Stratospheric Warming Event May Be Unfolding In The Southern Polar Vortex, Shaking Up Global Weather Systems
  • 15 Years Ago, Bees In Brooklyn Appeared Red After Snacking Where They Shouldn’t
  • Carnian Pluvial Event: It Rained For 2 Million Years — And It Changed Planet Earth Forever
  • There’s Volcanic Unrest At The Campi Flegrei Caldera – Here’s What We Know
  • The “Rumpelstiltskin Effect”: When Just Getting A Diagnosis Is Enough To Start The Healing
  • In 1962, A Boy Found A Radioactive Capsule And Brought It Inside His House — With Tragic Results
  • This Cute Creature Has One Of The Largest Genomes Of Any Mammal, With 114 Chromosomes
  • Little Air And Dramatic Evolutionary Changes Await Future Humans On Mars
  • “Black Hole Stars” Might Solve Unexplained JWST Discovery
  • Pretty In Purple: Why Do Some Otters Have Purple Teeth And Bones? It’s All Down To Their Spiky Diets
  • The World’s Largest Carnivoran Is A 3,600-Kilogram Giant That Weighs More Than Your Car
  • Devastating “Rogue Waves” Finally Have An Explanation
  • Meet The “Masked Seducer”, A Unique Bat With A Never-Before-Seen Courtship Display
  • Alaska’s Salmon River Is Turning Orange – And It’s A Stark Warning
  • Meet The Heaviest Jelly In The Seas, Weighing Over Twice As Much As A Grand Piano
  • For The First Time, We’ve Found Evidence Climate Change Is Attracting Invasive Species To Canadian Arctic
  • What Are Microfiber Cloths, And How Do They Clean So Well?
  • Stowaway Rat That Hopped On A Flight From Miami Was A “Wake-Up Call” For Global Health
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version