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Google is introducing a new Play Store policy that will effectively block third-party call recording apps from the Play Store by May 11th, according to a Reddit post seen by 9to5Google. Such apps ...

Google will soon ban third-party call-recording apps from the Play Store. First highlighted by a developer of an affected app, Google made the announcement in a Google Play policy update that becomes ...

A new Google policy will effectively ban call-recording apps from the Play Store starting next month. Under the change, spotted earlier by Ars Technica, call recording will no longer be allowed via ...

Android smartphones previously had a built-in call recording feature, but the search engine tech giant eventually started removing the said function in the name of both security and privacy. Not to ...

If you rely on third-party call recording apps on Android, then you're going to find those apps useless starting May 11. Google announced several upcoming changes to its Play Store Policy for ...

It used to be easy enough to record a phone call on your Android device, but that’s changing starting now. A recent update to the Google Play Store developer policy will force third-party call ...

A controversial app that claims to pay people for recordings of their phone calls, which are then used to train AI models, could soon return after being disabled due to a significant security flaw.

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Next month, Google plans to enforce restrictions on the Accessibility API, which means all the best call recording apps will be banned or forced to downgrade to a more primitive method of recording.

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Google has announced a bizarre policy that effectively bans call-recording apps from the Play Store. As part of Google’s crackdown on apps that use Android’s accessibility APIs for non-accessibility ...