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please solve the problem whit ACR ... we need to see the numbers from calls

Google please solve the problems whit the ACR.....

Please fix this problem. As a person with a neuromotor impairment that makes note-taking difficult, I now have problems when I'm talking to doctors' offices and other vital contacts.

Google please solve the problem with the recording call apps like ACR.

Please restore call recorder app like ACR. It is very foolish delete this
feature. If you don't restore call recorder support, me and my friends
won't buy any Android phone, but iPhone.

Kind regards

Il giorno gio 14 mar 2019 alle 18:22 <buganizer-system@google.com> ha
scritto:

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Alessandro Poggiana

Call recording is a vital aspect of legal record keeping, many organisations around the globe do so, to ensure a court record can be transcribed, individuals should also have this capacity on their communication devices, as part of their legal protections, as proof that a conversation has taken place, and what transpired during the course of said communication.

Whilst I understand the reasoning behind now preventing this, in attempting to prevent spyware, and this is valuable, it should also not be a functionality completely removed from devices, but rather, given oversight.

Please remedy the issue as expediently as possible. Every call received, that is legally pertinent, that is unable to be recorded, becomes a legal liability for a user.

At each support company you call you are greeted with a simple message that "your call may be recorded", so we are recorded every day. If someone will want to record a call would do it anyway - there are a lot of hardware devices that could do that. But why this would be a problem on an Android phone? Why bother remove an option that exists for such a long time? Or Google want to invest in producing such "extra" hardware recording devices?

Extremely dissatisfied to learn that ACR has been blocked. ACR - Automatic Call Recorder is the app I'm using to record my calls.

Consumer rights are constantly overrun by brazilian companies and ACR was a great ally for confronting unwilling customer support analysts with what had previously been promised by their company's representatives. It has played a key part in helping me secure my rights as a consumer and I'm about to receive a substantial reimbursement of funds (over a thousand dollars) thanks to my persistence and my call recording habits.

Very frustrated to see it go away with no workaround.

Guys please star these issues instead:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/112602629
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/117486314
They are much more related to call recording and phone-related apps.

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Extremely dissatisfied to learn that ACR has been blocked. ACR - Automatic Call Recorder is the app I'm using to record my calls. 

Consumer rights are constantly overrun by brazilian companies and ACR was a great ally for confronting unwilling customer support analysts with what had previously been promised by their company's representatives. It has played a key part in helping me secure my rights as a consumer and I'm about to receive a substantial reimbursement of funds (over a thousand dollars) thanks to my persistence and my call recording habits. 

Very frustrated to see it go away with no workaround

Recording a phone call is completely legal in my state and many others. I
don't have to let the other party know since only one party has to know. I
think that Google should stay out of the business of being a nanny. If
someone's state doesn't allow them to record a call, that is on the
individual. It is not up to Google to keep it from happening.

On March 15, 2019 12:30:25 PM <buganizer-system@google.com> wrote:

I've actually stopped using a phone that has Android Pie because it
eliminates ACR's recording capabilities. Google is shooting themselves in
the foot with these decisions.

On March 15, 2019 7:16:04 PM David Way <rdavidway@gmail.com> wrote:

The fact in some countries is illegal to record calls without permission isn't an argument. The recording action isn't intrinsically illegal as feature and if you ask to the counterpart the permission, recording call is legal in every country of the world. There are infinite illegal things that you can do with a smartphone, the OS developer should pay attention to features, user security and software quality, not to limit user freedom with the assumption that He COULD use It in some unethical way. The way a feature is used is responsibility of the owner.

Google you are interfering with legal and normal activities.  
The information that you're blocking (preventing  to be recorded) is not yours and it is not yours to decide if legal or not to do so.  There is no case law that would justify doing so . Pls fix the issue or legal action may be taken.

Thank you for the attention given to this matter.

Google please fix.

google, please allow call recording app

Google this feature and ACR recorder app has been critical in my many y court issues with my EXwife. She has place my children in harm's way and this app has helped keep them safe.  Please reverse this decision and allow ACR to function as before.

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Cant believe Google was so quick to end call recording w/o community feedback. I work as a CSR rep, and unfortunately I have to provide my personal number to clients. In the past I have had to refer to a recorded call to protect my and my family's safety. In all honesty it's only a matter of time before this decision puts many in harms way. I strongly urge Google to reconsider, and do it fast. Other parts of the world are not the US... in the US it is legal with varying degrees by jurisdiction. It's an individuals choice to follow those rules, or not and face the consequences of those actions.
If those countries dont want call recording it's their responsibility to regulate it. Not individuals in a country that isn't even related to them.

Google, please allow recording apps.

Hi everyone - for me call recording was very important - especially in my bussines. It will be really great if google could restore this functionality

È estremamente importante avere la possibilità di registrare le telefonate per il lavoro che svolgo quotidianamente , prendo solo appuntamenti Direttamente con il cellulare mentre sto alla guida  con bluetooth. Adesso sono obbligato a fermarmi e dover scrivere ....un vero disagio. Spero che torni disponibile quanto prima. grazie

I do not understand this decision, if this is for legal purposes so why not locking out the phone if there are inappropriate contents or anything else? A phone is a tool, you should not lock out its features without my consent. Please unlock it ASAP!!!

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please unlock it ASAP!

We need this very important feature!

I can't believe Google has removed our ability to record phone calls without consultation with the community. This app is so important to our business we'll probably have to go through the pain of having our phones reverted back to Android Orio.

Hi Google,
We are not your children and you are not our parents, so please let us to decide using or not ACR.
Unlock it!!!!!!

I use call recording as part of my job activity. That ability has now been removed by some sanctimonious individual/group!
As this is a built-in function, please reinstate asap before I am compromised by not being able to have call recording.

Google please fix this!

bastaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, con il mio telefono faccio quello che voglio e non si può dare e poi togliere. Scorretto! meglio cambiare!!!

One-party consent to record a conversation is perfectly legal in my state. I have a disability where I have difficulty processing what I hear, so I rely on this feature to retain information from important calls. It has come in especially handy for calls with my doctor, insurance company, mortgage broker, and landlord. At a time when our smartphones do everything for us, why should we be expected to carry around a recording device, especially when Google can provide that accessibility? Please reconsider this policy, or offer an alternate solution for those of us with disabilities.

I own a Samsung Galaxy S9+ with Android 9.

In my country, Spain, it is fully legal for any person to record any phone call in which the person participates, without consent from the other party (so called "one-party consent"). Furthermore, such recordings are fully valid, and often successfully used, as evidence before courts of justice. As far as I know, the same is true for the whole European Union, with the only exception, perhaps, of Germany.

Call recording is extremely important (mainly to remember what you have agreed with people) for millions of european citizens, myself included, and potentially crutial when choosing a new mobile phone or mobile operative system. Maybe the current situation of Android removing any possibility of phone call recording is an opportunity for a new operative system.

I ask you to put back to Android all the software infrastructure needed by call recording apps to work perfectly on Android smartphones. And, of course, please make a user-configurable option to have or not an audible periodic "beep".

Hãy đem ghi âm cuộc gọi trở lại. Công việc tôi rất cần. Và tôi không thấy ai phàn nàn vì tôi ghi âm cuộc gọi của họ. Đây là vấn đề riêng tư của tôi và người bị ghi âm. Không phải vấn đề của xã hội và của gg.

Typical of Google big Brother. Absolutely disgusted. Will go to Iphone in the next week if not resolved.

A couple of comments that came to mind while reading the replies to this report:

By all accounts, the privacy issue that made Google restrict call recording has nothing to do with regional legislation or government pressure. Call recording apps have to access the device's audio output while not being in the foreground (since the telephony app is active). The privacy risk mentioned is from malware apps which use this workaround to record the user without their knowledge or consent. Call recording apps were not the target of this measure, but collateral damage. After all, Google has indicated that they're considering adding native call recording functionality. I don't know if that's still going anywhere, but I certainly hope so. Another acceptable option would be for Google to make background audio recording a new permission that apps have to request. I don't think there's a point in debating call recording laws, because from all indications, they're not the reason why Google pushed this change.

And to everyone threatening to switch to an iPhone: you're of course free to do so, but it would be a bit silly to do it because of this issue. iOS does not support call recording apps either, and also doesn't offer the feature natively. You would be in the exact same situation as before, just having wasted a lot more money on your phone. In fact, it's even worse, since with Android you at least have the option of adding the feature back by rooting the device, or going with a manufacturer that offers call recording in a system app.

For now I am not upgrading to P. Going to keep my 8.1

Google pls fix this. Pls restore ACR.

I'm really dissapointed, please fix it.

please fix it.

Well so much for "do no harm".
 Look at the number of people you are harming by doing this Google.
Do you really think people are so stupid they can't make a decision for themselves?
 Please stop forcing your personal opinions on everybody.

receive long calls from my boss with several instructions n its not possible to note down all the instructions with details - missing he call recorder now which was a big support to my daily work functions

Please allow voice recording from the phone app :)

Very unsatisfied with this restriction. There are countries which you can record a conversation if you are part of it. Please make it work.

Please allow grown people to make informed decisions about our phones by allowing apps like ACR to explicitly request permission to record our calls and access our contacts. Don't be anti-consumer like that chairman of the FCC dbag; you used to be better than this.

Não gostei deste bloqueio das gravações de ligações vou retirar este Android 9 do meu aparelho 👍

Hello Google  - please restore call recording features and leave the responsibility on individuals who wants to permit 3rd party recording apps.

So, if I understand correctly this whole story about Google crippling and even completely disabling the widely sought and constantly requested call recording functionality from (at least) the 3rd party app developers, and I'm sure I understand it perfectly well, it can easily be said that Google (or Alphabet for that matter) obviously started, with such and similar actions as those mentioned above, to explicitly support and cover all sorts of criminals and the people with bad intentions (and certain "above-law" governmental institutions?!), thus providing and enabling them to exercise their malevolent actions much easier than before, and at the same time made it extremely hard and inconvenient, if not impossible, for all the good and (law-) obedient people, taxpayers and voters, to even protect themselves from such bad guys and from all the possible consequences of their faul activities from now on?! Well, thank you, big brother Google, and heil to you, too! P.S.: As I mentioned it several times before you have plenty opportunities out there to improve your own software and many basic mobile telephony (android system etc.) apps, which I'm afraid are still being far or at least in certain extent inferior to those found in old Nokia symbian mobile phones (no, it's not a lapsus linguae)!

please restore ACR call recording.

now i cant record calls with number, fuck u google

Unlock ACR !!!!!!!!

Please restore call recording

my next phone will have the ability to record calls, if that means having to go over to an iphone, or any other phone that can record calls then that is the solution...GOODBYE GOOGLE ..GOODBYE SAMSUNG..

Call recording is the reason why I'm switching from iOS after 12 years. The lack of this feature may send me back to Apple.
Il 24 mar 2019, 09:00 +0100, buganizer-system@google.com, ha scritto:

Please reinstate functionality for call recording apps. Why did Google not give us the option to choose for ourselves. Pathetic. This is bullying.

This is totally absurd to me, and a true loss. In my home state there are no issues with recording a call legally. With GPS  my location is clearly known and that can be used to determine whether I am in my legal right to make a recording. Please fix this.

Please restore this feature.  I use ACR call recording in my business to make sure I don't miss details in contracts all the time. Why would you work to make your product less useful?

my acr still records although the namws and numbers are missing on the record

There is obviously a need for this feature and it can be quantified in loss of revenue due to users keeping older devices, os, and or alternative devices/os. I would recommend Google's many engineers come up with an enhancement asap to resolve this functionality removal. Android is about freedom and this issue caused by increased security limits this core competency.

Wish google would give an update on their status

Fully agree with the previous calm and pissed off users. This change is the worst Google could come up over the years. Is must be a user responsibility to decide, restore / fix it as soon as possible!

Every feature could be used in some potentially illegal way. From taking pictures or videos without permissions to internet scamming. Why the ability to record calls where you are directly involved should be treated so differently than all others features? (Also all calls could be accessed and recorded even by government officers in eavesdropping).
Sounds not only against the individual freedom, but also very suspicious the choice to totally block call recording API.
Recording calls as stated by others actually in most cases can tutelate the honest users saving them from a lot of malevolent actions.

Im totally disappointed about ban of call recording options this is only one reason to use a android phone i used to use iphone but iphone dose not give the call recording options that's why i changed to android if it's same better to go an iPhone

I also don't understand blocking the api.  The strongest I have is the fact that if you are driving and take a hands free call, you can record the call to further study agreements, discussions or whatever and still concentrate on driving, not trying to remember the call contents.  It is not always easy to pull over, and sometimes I have been playing phone tag for days so I need to take the call.  Life is so much easier and safer when you can record the call.  I also fully support the other mentioned issues, like recordings of someone who has passed as well.  I would love to see this become the choice of each user, not just be blatantly blocked.

Call Recording was my bigest selling point to swith to android from iphone. totaly legal and useful call  recording in my country

Now that  I  can't use ACR, there is no point in keeping an android phone. Going to check Apple's info and getting a new phone today.

This is garbage. Please bring back

Removing a helpful, valued feature in one country because it is illegal in a different country with less freedom is not rational. Whatever happened to the "don't do evil" clause in your Code of Conduct, Google?

Then the ability to display/save phone numbers was taken away from third party apps in March, too. Don't Do Evil, Google.

As for workarounds, I picked up a used Galaxy S7, which is currently frozen at Nougat. An S8 with Oreo would have been preferred but those are getting upgraded to Pie which is where the problem is.

I think I'll root the S7, unless there's a better way to break OTA updates. In case they ever decide to release Pie for the S7 platform.

Yet another right stripped away in a socialist bootJack fashion.

Google being the 1000Lb Gorilla here with lobbying power greater than GDP of many countries.  should be taking the high road in  
In preserving freedoms and open
market competition  not act like sniveling bitches that you're fastly becoming.

I inadvertently came across ACR in Samsung Galaxy store and its from the same company. It allows you to record calls albeit using the speaker and shows the phone number for outbound and inbound calls, version 31.1 Samsung unchained. Have a look.

You fucking whores can strip any and all info with questionable consent (you're technically illegal in Europe you fucking shitheads) and with the vast fucking sea of legally questionable, and outright illegal, shit you do you decide to impede on basic human rights of protection, not to mention removing the safekeeping of the last calls with your elderly through call recording.
Google employees deserve the bullet too (a toast to that lady/hero who shot you up!) Just like FB employees (and that goes from the owner all the way down to your fucking janitors)

Wow - Comment #78 is a bit angry. I mean I know it's a pain to lose this functionality on non-rooted android phones, but wowo... just chill out. It's JUST a phone. Turn it off for a day, turnoff the TV and any other media/internet devices and have a day chilling and doing some soft breathing. It'll help.

Agree, #78 is a little over the top. But rooting though, will that restore the call-recording functionality? With the ACR app? I've been thinking about getting my S9 rooted anyway but can't find anyone to do it, I did it on an HTC One S and didn't like the process, paid to have it done on my S5 and my SO's S6. now I'm on an S9, was about to revert to a used S7... but if rooting the S9 will fix it?

agreed with #73

I don't know if the team that works on this product has any say on this
feature since this seems like a political decision to not support call
recording apps.

Nevertheless, this is a deal breaker for Android's customers. If Google
doesn't realize it quickly and restore functionality and make it available
in Android P and higher, they are going to see people leaving the platform.
This was a huge capability that protects the user. I'm currently using a
phone that is stuck on Nougat and have continued to deny the ACR "update"
that takes away call log capability. I use this phone despite the fact that
I have a much newer phone that has the crippled Android P with no call
recording capability.

I left Apple and adopted Android because Android didn't previously force
you to use it's apps or lock down it's ecosystem to the point that the user
couldn't customize and streamline his or her experience. You are killing
your advantage! Meanwhile, Apple is starting to allow more and more cross
app communication and system level access. Given that Apple hardware has
always been superior (much faster and smoother interface), this becomes an
easy choice.

Google, you need to fix this or face the consequences of losing market share.

On March 29, 2019 5:14:42 PM <buganizer-system@google.com> wrote:

I never acr, I use it on a daily basis for all my work calls.

I have to call customer service all the time when they make a promise I have to have a copy of it for my records. When they don't keep that promise its becomes a he said she said. They are companies that inform me the call might be recorded so no legal issue.

Also I live in Texas a 1 party state. Therefor it is my right to record any conversation. This has protected me from multiple law suits.

Please help the many millions of people who use apps like this. It is up to each individual to know the laws of their area not up to Google to stop an important feature of any smartphone.

You are literally endangering peoples lives by doing this. Stop being sub human scumbag cunts.

Hello Google development team. Please being back the APIs that allow companies like NLL produce apps that allow call recording. Please. Most of us just want to record calls so that we can remember what our friends and family said over a phone call. When I buy a knife I use it to cut my apple and cook my food. It is used for an ordinary purpose. 99.9% would never use to kill someone. Please bring back the call recording functionality in Android Pie as soon as you can.

ACR Call Recorder played THE key role in winning custody of my children from my drunk and abusive ex-wife.

Please open up the recording possibility again. In Sweden its perfectly legal to record your calls and i used it for years. Its perfect to be able to recheck details in a previous call!

Please make ACR great again. With 4ķ recorded calls I find this option crutial for me.

Just want to add my voice to those calling for a rethink of this terrible decision to effectively stop ACR. This was the reason I bought an android phone!  PLEASE just comment an why this is so hard to reverse!

This is another ploy of power and control over users. I for one will be buying an apple phone now and will then no longer use GOOGLE! THIS IS NONE OF GOOGLES BUSINESS. Why don't you work on keeping us safe and secure instead of attacking those of us who are proactive with our conversations. What about people who have disabilities and can't remember all of their conversations? You are now violating the disabilities act of 1974. I'd say we should all ban together and sue the balls off of Google.
Get it together Google!!!

Please fix the problem. I am new in Germany and must repeat the conversations to understand them.

Solicito a volta da permissão a gravação de chamadas porque é um recurso importante para todos que agem corretamente.

Please enable ACR again ASAP!

Please enable call recorer   acr

Kindly enable call recording feature asap

Bring back this. We have a right to record calls on phones, especially where it is legal such as in Ireland.

Please fix this issue it is vital for me for note taking.

Please fix this issue it is vital for me for note taking.

Please fix this issue it is vital for me for note taking

Please enable call recording again!

With all the prying going on on my phone by Google and partners, and yes I have "AGREED TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS", It is unconcievable that call recording has been blocked for "privacy" reasons. Call recording SHOULD AND MUST be a standard feature given to users even if together with all the useless bloatware. What is the use of buying expensive phones that are even AI ready if they cannot perform one of the most low level basic tasks of call recording. Must I downgrade back to 8?

We have one-party consent laws where I live, and use call recording for my business records. It was a huge hassle when I discovered that all my recordings were blank for months after updating to android 9, and I very much need this feature back. Please restore it. I don't care if there's a beep or not.

Bring back this. We have a right to record calls on phones, especially where it is legal such as in Australia.

Please enable call recording again!

Call recording really helps me when I forget about meeting timings etc scheduled over phone, please enable it

Call recording is important feature of my Phone that directly impacts my safety. Please bring it back. You are putting a lot of people in real danger by disabling this feature. Dont be evil!

Call recording elps me a lot with my patienrs.It is very important for me.

Please restore call recorder app like ACR. It is very important for everyone!!

Google please solve the problems whit the ACR.,.
Acr helps me with my privacy. It is our election.

recorder app like ACR. It is very foolish delete this
feature. If you don't restore call recorder support, me and my friends
won't buy any Android phone, but iPhone.

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In consideration that several people using Android are utilizing it mainly because it has advantages over iOS in terms of very specific features, why would the API for call recording be removed with Android 9.0?

I recognize that it is to promote "privacy" but the disclosures and access controls can be done from the side of the phone, and clearly advertised by the Play Store, in accordance with regulation. Let the consumer choose to allow the access, and not compromise their system with Root Functionality.

I'd like to know whether Google will be reinstating this, or if I will no longer see benefits from Android.

Whate fock is dis now is this jok

These comments are childish.  If people want to switch to Apple as a result of this, there is nothing stopping them.  Google, for better or worse, has enough market share that they can essentially do anything they want, even with "open-source" projects of theirs (remember when they decided Hangouts wasn't going to be XMPP-compatible anymore?).  This is just another instance of such.
However, to Google's engineers and management, this is my simple argument in favor of this feature:
The ability to record calls in modern smartphone operating systems is important for some people and is (as evidenced by Edward Snowden) abundantly easy for law enforcement interests to do without the consent or authorization of the users anyway.  One reason I would urge you to put this feature back in is that because of this, a lot of people will stay on Oreo instead of upgrading to Pie and getting the latest OS patches (which likely exposes them to many more privacy and security-related risks than enabling this feature would).  Another is that, as mentioned by others, this feature is legal in many countries and states.  Users should have the ability to choose what software and what abilities they want to utilize in their devices.  This is reminiscent of Microsoft's way of doing things versus the open-source world (which again, Google is supposedly a big proponent of).  Google, please bring this back because it's important to your users (over 110 _million_ people have Starred this thread), and because it will show that you care about the things you institutionally say you do.

That is EXACTLY what I am doing at the moment because of this regression of
capability from Oreo to Pie: I am actively refusing to update my Note9 to
Pie even though the update has been available for a while and the pop up is
constantly annoying me. I am even considering not buying a Note10 because
of this issue, which I would otherwise have preordered as soon as it became
available to do so.

So how is this helping "protect" users Google? Please be reasonable and
assess the risk of doing something properly (i.e. risk to users). This is
not helping users, it's hindering them!

On Fri, 5 Apr. 2019, 9:28 am , <buganizer-system@google.com> wrote:

> over 110 _million_ people have Starred this thread
Unfortunately, only 175 people did this. 110433612 is just the issue ID :(

.

:facepalm: .   Well, that makes some sense. Less than 200 people is a speck of a speck of a speck to Google.

Google please allow ACR, I really really need it due to Serious sleep deprivation I cannot remember what I said 5 seconds ago. Is also extremely important for doctors call and dealing with Workers Compensation Board. Because of ACR I was finally able to get back payments at five months worth after having to go on to food bank and financial aid and subsidized rent due to WCB not paying me. Even though the MRI that they ordered shows I have wrist ligament tears and strains as well as tendonitis and carpal tunnel. In both hands.
Do to quite a bit of pain from these injuries as well as severe stress that is cause severe levels of depression and high anxiety. I can function far better listen to my phone calls to remember what was I just discussed and make notes of things. This alone has just been astronomical and helping me appeal as well. Please reinstate ACR. I really need it

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Google please solve the problem with the recording call apps like ACR.

ACR is important to me and others in my company, please reconsider keeping this functionality.

We want freedom and calling calls!

It is important you allow ACR. If one person knows the call is being recorded, then it is legal. Furthermore, it is not a Google job to make sure the calls are being recorded legally. Stop the big brother approach to controlling my phone, please!

We can not even share are comments without you tracking our email so if you can take away my privacy rights why do you try to control what my phone can do?

OMG why, why, why, why, why did you break the call record oil ng feature? I record call to remember my family talks. I also use it to refer back to conversation as audio notes so i dont have to write things down. What a pain in the ass. Everytime I turn around something is be taken away making phone and internet more and more useless.

Please bring back call recording feature.

Google should conduct a poll to decide if users want the call recording feature or not.
In my case, I was really affected due to unavailability of the call recording feature disabled in 9.0.
If i had known that the latest Android is going to disable this, I would have not upgraded.
Call recording helps in a great deal for me. Many times it has help me get out if trouble when I was blamed or doubted for anything that I had not done.
It also helps to store the recording of loved ones so that you can go back and listening to their recording when u miss them.
I really want google to bring back this feature.

Restore the ability to record calls. Professional and take instructions from clients, easy to administer and clients appreciate the service including knowing that its a record for their own safety in our service. Make it work! Love ACR!

Please unlock ACR. this tool i was using in my routine office working. there are technical  discussions manytimes, i used to refer those afterwards by ACR.

Kindly do not lock this.

Dear Google please restore the ability for 3rd party apps to record calls and associate the calls with caller ID. I personally stopped the most recent update  of my
NOTE 8 to prevent it from installing Android 9 PIE. For many of us the ability to clearly record both sides of a conversation is more important than your security and other feature updates. I find it hard to believe that a company with your wealth of technical expertise can not figure out a way to provide security and allow call recording.
The legal aspect of call recording should be the phone owners responsibility.
Call recording has been and will continue to be a major consideration in my next phone purchase.

I suffer from neuro-motor impairment as another poster does. It is extremely difficult to for me to remember things. I'm 75 and relied heavily on the call recorder benefits of having a recorder App as I get calls while I'm driving or in the middle of something and don't have the time to stop to find a pen and paper to write the details down. . As we age we naturally have more doctors appointments and a need for such an app. I live in Florida which has a two party law. All my doctors and friends know I record all calls and if a call comes in (telemarketer) I also tell them know up front and the ones that are insistent to try to scam me, those calls I send to FCC.

On top of all this bull, 286 members of congress repealed the privacy act and were paid from $2,554,784 (John McCain) down to $40,219 (Warren Elizabeth),  those numbers were fifty-five Senators.The rest were 194 Representatives as well that got paid handsomely by lobbyist to repeal the privacy act put in place by Obama. 286 members didn't care enough about your privacy to even vote. Now, If you want to get all hot and bothered about something, start emailing, calling and sending letters to get that act reversed. Seems to me that this is a one way ticket for some and not others and also a clear case of citizen discrimination. The government can write the law but don't have to abide by them. If Android wants to make changes how about installing an app to help ward off the robo calls like iPhone does and remove some of the tracking bloatware!!!!!

One last thing, I just took back my new Samsung 9+ back and went back to my GS7 just because of this issue. I will not buy another phone that does not support call recording. I will wait till this phone dies then go back to iPhone. Moral of the story, if you hit a company in the pocket where it hurts, then they listen! Forget about the latest trend and glitter, keep with what works and sales will decline and they will be forced to pay attention to the buyers.

Hello Google. I had great samsung galaxy S8+ and now its good as net weight. For the first time in my life I went from a better phone to a worse one. Call recording is working fine with Honor 7.

Well done Google.

Google, there must be a way to enable call recording while maintaining user's privacy. It's been a feature envied by my friends that has iPhones because it helps me with tracking tasks and support calls. The legal portion is the user's responsibility so there's no problem with it and no excuse to justify removing it.

I Think this is some BS and that Google. An spy on everybody, using your own phone, but don't want people to catch thier scandalous passes In conversation telling the truth, and having evidence of it when called out on thier BS and then they lie about it, when you have evidence to the contrary.  Let's keep this Shit real Google stop the ability to record calls with caller ID, to protect themselves not thier users... I think this is a class action lawsuit waiting to happen... for which I plan to investigate for myself and maybe start one. Therefore, what I am saying is this, Google better restore the call recording apps with. Allergy ID to before your F**ked up update, before I and many other customers of yours start this fight to get back what we lost and what shouldn't have been taken from us in the 1st place!!! ADVICE: fix this shit ASAP before we act which will cost you way more than us in money and customers. Just so you know.. I'm thinking of dropping Google for another platform ASAP! So I say to you fix this F**K UP fast! Or face the consequences of not just an Exodus but lawsuit as well...  and one more thing Google stop acting like you have my best interest at heart, cause you dont, because if you did you wouldn't have done this in the first place. The only interest that you have, are worried about is your Own!!!

I use this feature to record medical training phone calls. The training goes too quickly to capture all the notes so I replay the details and hand transcribe the information. I am really at a loss now. Please do something about this. I'm using this for legitimate reasons.

Not work properly mobile tracker free Aap plz help me.....
Tq

I literally switched over to Android from iOS because of the call recording feature! I guess not much reason now to stay.

There was a time ... years ago, when stupid people tried to change weather icons from my google page, or however that was called. When they did thousands of people shout and they reverted back. I doubt they will do it again.

If i had known that the latest Android is going to disable this, I would have not upgraded.

Absolutely crucial to my business - If this is not resolved soon, I will have no option but to join the multitude in leaving Android.

Please restore the ability to record calls.

Bring back the call recording ability please. It has no legal drawbacks for Google, just huge advantages for users.

Please, PLEASE, bring back the ability to record calls. It is legal in a lot of countries (it is in mine), and it is plain stupid to make us root our phones just because we want (or need!) this.
We don't need you to police us; it's our responsibility to abide the law.

Just create a new "Call Recording" permission that is set to "Ask" (even "Disabled" would be fine for me) by default so we can enable it when necessary.

I still think that someone @ Google was burned by call recording and that they rank highly-enough within the .org that they can snap their fingers, make this important, sometimes necessary feature go away. That third-party apps cannot store phone numbers is probably related to this same burn and spiteful kneejerk. Or maybe it was a pol who is now putting pressure on Google, that should get some cleansing sunlight if that's the case.

Galaxy S7 w/Android 6 is now in hand, I'm working out some issues to back up / migrate everything to the S7 from the S9 because I hate hate hate Android Pie for this deliberate and willful misconfiguration. I'll probably miss the S9 but I won't miss Pie.

Insanity on part of google to force this change on users of Android. Plenty people use this feature so at least allow it where ever its legal. Or create a permission that asks user to allow Call Recording.

Cannot update to Android Pie unless this feature is available.

I and all the of the people on here deserve the right to choose to record call not you playing big brother so please restore call recorder  so we have some chance to help our self  against  bureaucracy

This isn't so much of a beeping issue but a recording issue in general. If these asinine changes had taken place a little bit sooner, I wouldn't have a recording of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee stating that I WAS IN VIETNAM! and therefore will likely get my disability for my two airway cancers. And the beeping issue should be determined by local law.  With the option to turn on or off depending on local law.

I'm afraid it's that fascist totalitarian type of thinking at work again, from Google - we know better, we will talk down to you, we will organise every aspect of your acting and behaving, we will tell you what you can & cannot do.
Lots love! :)

Sad but true....Google and all other companies have full permissions to track, log and sell the user data, but when users need record your own data are restricted. Thanks ACR for communicating the users beforehand.

I think that  users must be more coercive with software companies to guarantee our rights.

As everyone has already said, please urgently fix the issue preventing call recording as it's a required phone feature for many people.

Dear Google. In Denmark it is legal to record calls. In fact do many companys like banks and insurance company and even most goverment office's, record the calls.
I am taking a lot of medication witch makes my memory as holed as a cheese, so I can't work without ACR as a memory bank.

I urge you to open the possibility of recording again, otherwise a lot of people with issues as my self, will be crippled and then forced to drop Android OS. Of course this regards all that has to do with google because I won't support a company that  just ruined my everyday survival amongst other people.

Google do not point the gun at your own foot here, get call recordings opened again asap. I really hope that you listen to the small man and not only the big players

Bent

please open ACR!!!
BAD UPDATE OF ANDROID PIE!!@

Google, please allow full phone call recording. As one trying to protect
myself against illegal robocalls & other marketers violating the Do Not
Call registry in the US, I depend on phone recording as evidence. I also
depend on phone recording when dealing with companies, to hold them to
their word. Most major companies routinely record my conversations, not to
mention the host of Google services tracking my info. I believe it is
actually a consumer right & protection to allow us to record phone
conversations. If the applicable State or country doesn't allow that, let
the individual deal with that in court.

Please allow me to record calls for Ukraine, rarely talk with children, recording calls helps me not to die with anguish.

I was using a secret ACR app to monitor my child's phone to ensure that he was not being contacted by drug pushers, and indeed managed to thwart their efforts on at least two occasions, but now that ACR's not available, i have no idea what's happening at school. I suppose the only way out is to switch to Iphone. If Iphone has no issue with ACR, I just don't see why Google should. What's considered legal by Iphone cannot be considered illegal by Google. I honestly believe someone should start a worldwide boycott against Google.

This issue, should be fix as soon as possible, it is vitale for meget business, as well as an private induvidual. Is there any way to vote this up?

I use a recording app for business calls, now it's not working. It's creating a lot of issues for us and our clients. We rely on recorded calls to track customer needs. Major disappointment in this decision.

I used a call recording app daily for my work. Have just recently bought a new phone with Android 9 and had no idea this app was going to be disabled. Am fuming! Google - please reinstate or give customers an update on if this is going to be resolved

This is crazy! Fancy enforcing a law that's relevant in some countries - to all other countries! What right does anyone have to do that?!

Sistemate sto casino. Acr deve funzionare.

For all you Android users out there let me give you some advice. Samsung has been fed up with Google's bullcrap for quite some time. This is why Samsung now has their own app store called Galaxy store if you want to get around this bull crap with Google buy yourself a Samsung phone download your apps to their app store there are other apps called GetJar where you can download apps and bypass the Google store if Google wants to violate people's rights and be an a****** then there's ways to get around Google Android operating system is not the only linux-based operating system out there there are many others.

Unfortunately this is not something that can be mitigated by using a different app (or a different app store). This relates to the removal of the API/s required for *all* call recorder apps to work. Without this, no call recorder app will be able to work (unless perhaps you root your phone)

I'm not going to upgrade to Android 9, lucky I red this problem before running the upgrade.
What a shame call recording is disabled while it's legal in my country!
Google becomes more and more like Apple, playing big boss and pushing unwanted restrictions to it's users.

In most country it is perfectly legal to record call yo which you take part.
Google activate calls recorder .

In most country it is perfectly legal to record call yo which you take part.
Google activate calls recorder .please

We need this very important feature!

Sometimes recording a call may save your life, especially when you're threatened by anonymous calls. The guarantee that call recording gives the user against aggressors is far too important to take away. Working in the domain of counseling, I've seen the benefits of this features and more importantly the threats that arise from the absence of such feature. Please bring back the call recording option. Trust me, it saves lives!

Why would you take away a feature that I have paid for an app to use! this is disgraceful, please re enable this immediately

I have been using ACR for years.  In my line of business I take calls while on the road from customers.  When they give me information to remember or ask questions that I need to research this app quite literally saves my life while I'm on the road.  PLEASE let this app continue helping keep our roads safe.

I have been with android all my life you guys have just lost a customer apple here I come this is a huge mistake I used the recording app for my buisness I have bad memory and I cant live without this app this app has help me win credit card disputes please fix this problem please again I love android dont force me to leave over this simple matter. Sincerely ..thank you

Please google restore ACR in android 9

I used ACR to record business calls, which is totally legal in my state.  But Google  doesn't care about their users - if they did, they would have fixed this problem when people first pointed it out last summer.

I turned off forced updates in the developer options specifically to avoid this BUG with Android Pie, but Samsung overrode the setting and force-updated my phone this week.  

I don't know what my alternatives are, but I am thinking of just getting a used phone that will not be updated and running that. This is inexcusable.  Neither Samsung nor Google care that users who buy their products expect that the products will get MORE functionality in an update.  Instead, they actually cripple them because they think they know better.

I will do everything I can to replace/bypass all Google products as a result of their unilateral decision to disallow recording apps to function on Android products.  

This is a travesty and I really hope that enough people do the right thing and find a way to protest Google.

I pay a grand for one of your phones,
 and you do this?

I want a bloody reply. Everyone is posting on this subject and your just ignoring them.

Fine, your new rubbish upgrade doesn't do what customers want.
Give us the option of using the previous version,
Without taking away our right to use features.

I need ACR for my everyday work - in car driving I can't make notes. Please read ACR!

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Please restore the ability to record calls.  I have trouble remembering details and call recording (with appropriate consent) helps me with this.   You are harming me by taking away call recording capability.  Please think about this.  Thank you.