Android 9 blocks a very important function for many users of the operating system, showing a change taken over from iOS, where the Apple company prevents exactly the same thing for its customers. Android 9 blocks the possibility of recording phone calls using applications of any kind, unless the phone is already rooted by the user, the situation being the same as in the case of the iPhone, where a jailbreak is needed to record phone calls.
Android 9 practically forces users to root their phones, just as iOS forces iPhone users to jailbreak, the big difference being that root for Android will always exist, while jailbreaks appear difficult. Android 9 did not have official APIs that would allow applications to record phone calls, but unofficially it was possible, but now Google has completely blocked the functionality for phones that have not been rooted by the user.
Android 9 BLOCKS a MAJOR Function, Mimicking iOS
Android 9 does not come with an explanation for this decision by Google, but considering that the laws of many countries prohibit the recording of phone calls without the explicit consent of the interlocutors, it is easy to understand why it was taken. Now all those who enjoyed the possibility of making phone call recordings in Android, basically end up in the iPhone situation, Android 9 forcing them to root their phones, the procedure itself not being that simple.
"On the contrary, it looks like Android Pie has completely blocked call recording without root. The developers of both CallRecorder – ACR and BoldBeast Android Call Recorder have confirmed that Google has closed off the workaround they used to record calls, leaving root-only methods the only way to record your phone calls.”
Android 9 practically limits the freedom of the operating system, and of the users, over time those from Google also limit other functions, as Apple did from the very beginning with the iPhone phones. Slowly, slowly, the Android operating system comes to impose more and more prohibitions, just like iOS, Android 9 being just a new step taken by the Google company to secure the mobile terminals that use its software, but also to irritate users.
