Apple’s AI toolkit is packed with features that promise to make your iPhone, iPad and Mac experience that much smarter and more helpful.
One of the new tools allows you to record and generate a transcription of your phone calls, so you’ll never need to fumble for a pen and paper again.
Although Apple Intelligence isn’t officially available in the UK just yet, setting your phone’s location to the US will give you access to the toolkit and, therefore, the option to record and transcribe your phone calls.
We’ve put together a step-by-step guide on how to record and transcribe phone calls on your iPhone in iOS 18.
What you’ll need:
- An iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any handset from the iPhone 16 series)
- Apple Intelligence enabled (follow our guide on how to try Apple Intelligence on your iPhone if you aren’t sure)
The short version:
- Make a phone call.
- Tap the record button.
- Listen out for the recording alert.
- Press stop once you’ve finished recording.
- Tap View saved call.
- Select the call recording in your Notes app.
- Tap the grey box to see your call transcription.
- Tap Summary.
- View your call summary.
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1Make a phone call
Open your Phone app to make a phone call.
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2Tap the record button
Once you’re on a phone call, tap the record button in the top left corner of the screen.
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3Listen out for the recording alert
As soon as you tap the record button, you and the other call participants will hear an alert stating that the phone call is being recorded. You will also see an alert on your phone call screen, as shown here.
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4Press stop once you’ve finished recording
When you want to finish recording, press the stop button on the phone call screen.
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5Tap View saved call
You’ll see a notification to view your call recording once you’ve finished, which will take you directly to your Notes app. Tap here.
The call recording will stay in your Notes app for you to revisit at a later date too.Step
6Select the call recording in your Notes app
Tap the note containing your call recording, as shown here.
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7Tap the grey box to see your call transcription
Tap on the Call Recording box to read the call transcription. The transcription is handled in the background and should be ready by the time you get to the Notes app, so you don’t need to worry about tapping any extra buttons.
Here you can also tap the Play button to listen to your conversation again.Step
8Tap Summary
Once you’ve opened your call transcription, tap Summary at the top of the screen to receive a summarisation of your phone call.
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9View your call summary
Here you’ll see an overview of your phone call.
Troubleshooting
No, just one participant needs to have access to Apple Intelligence to record and transcribe the phone call.
Once a call participant enables the recording function, all participants will be automatically alerted that the call is being recorded.
Yes, there’s Call Notes which was introduced with the Pixel 9 series, which uses Gemini AI to summarise key details from your phone call.
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