You don't need an obsessive ex stalking you to benefit from the ability to record calls on your iPhone in a pinch. Besides protecting yourself from nefarious intent, recording important conversations like verbal contracts and agreements can help you cover all your bases and ensure you're insulated from any potential liabilities that may appear down the road.
Unfortunately, Apple didn't add the ability to record phone calls into iOS, so you'll need to rely instead on third-party apps to get the job done. However, almost all of these apps require payment in the form of monthly or annual subscriptions, making them out of reach for many with a tight budget. That said, there is a workaround to this issue which costs significantly less, provided your device is jailbroken.
If you have a jailbroken iPhone, you can purchase a tweak from Cydia to record phone calls automatically. The aptly named Call Recorder tweak by hAcx costs $2.99 total and is far cheaper and simpler to use than regular subscription-based call recording apps. The app isn't available in Cydia by default, which means you'll have to install an external repo before you can get your hands on it.
Federal law permits recording telephone calls and in-person conversations with the consent of at least one of the parties (e.g., you), but your state may have a different consent law. California, for example, has a two-party consent law, which means you have to obtain permission from the other person(s) before you can initiate recording. Know your state laws before attempting to record a conversation.
A prompt will appear in the center of the screen asking for a URL. Enter hacx.org/repo into the empty field, then tap on "Add Source." The repo will now be automatically added to Cydia, so sit back and wait for the process to finish. Hit "Return to Cydia" once the repo has been installed, and go to the next step.
With the repo successfully added on, head to the "Search" tab in Cydia. There, type "call recorder" in the search bar, and select "Call Recorder (iOS)" from the list of results that appear. Next, tap "Install" in the upper-right of the Details screen to begin the installation.
Tap "Confirm" in the upper-right of the following screen to finalize your selection. The tweak will start installing, so wait a few moments for the process to complete. Once it's done, tap on "Restart SpringBoard" to respring your iPhone and finish installing Call Recorder.
Upon respringing, an icon for Call Recorder will appear on your home screen. Before you can fully access the app, however, you'll still need to purchase an activation code for Call Recorder to enable its features. Open the app, then tap on "Express/Secure Purchase" to proceed. You'll automatically be transferred to a PayPal page, so enter your login credentials and follow the prompts to pay for the code. When you see your activation code on the screen, tap "Activation" in the top left.
The activation code will automatically populate the "Code" box within the app's Activation page. Input your email address in the field provided, then tap on "Activate" to finalize your purchase. Tap on "Agree" on the following disclaimer page to start using Call Recorder.
To set which contacts and numbers to set automatic call recording for, in Call Recorder, tap on the hamburger menu icon in the upper-left. Next, select "Settings" from the menu prompt that appears, then hit "Auto Record" on the following page.
Now, tap on both "On Unknown Calls" and "On Blocked Calls" to set recording only for phone calls within those categories. Once you've done so, tap on "Add Contact," and select a contact on the following page to add it to your record list. You can only add one contact at a time, so repeat the process over again until you've added all the contacts you want to set automatic call recording for.
Once you've finished setting up the Call Recorder tweak, any phone calls you make or receive from designated contacts, unknown, and blocked numbers will automatically trigger call recording. To stop recording at any time during the conversation, tap on the blinking red record button in the upper-left. Otherwise, the recording will stop as soon as the call ends.
It's worth noting that Call Recorder's red record button stays embedded in your iPhone's in-call screen for all phone calls, and it gives you the ability to manually record any conversation on the fly by hitting the record button. So if it's not blinking red, you know it's not recording, but you can tap it to start recording, in which case it would be blinking red.
Call Recorder also provides you with numerous options such as sharing via either email or text, renaming a recording to make sorting easier, etc. To access the Action menu, perform a long-press on the target recording and choose the action you want to perform from the prompt that appears.
This is not the only way to record phone calls on your iPhone. If you're not jailbroken, you can use paid subscription services found in the App Store, and there's a Google Voice hack you can also try out. For more info on those and other ways, see our roundup of call recording possibilities.
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The best part about jailbreaking your iOS device is that you are able to access Cydia tweaks and apps to get the best out of your iPhones, iPads and iPods. Besides, the best tweaks available on Cydia are absolutely free. With Ryan Petrich, one of the best developers at the helm of the jailbreak community, one could expect nothing less.
The TelOnNotification tweak, by iOS developer "timetravel0", allows the user to make phone calls (for the iPhone) directly from the new Notifications Center. The user no longer has to manually unlock the phone and navigate through other apps before making a call. All he/she has to do is slide the notifications screen down, enter the phone number and tap the Call button. This widget is available for free.
The app comes with a cool Graphical User Interface (GUI), which has been kept simple and within a small footprint. Before you actually start typing in a phone number to dial, the widget looks as it does in the screenshot above.
After you tap on that bar a message pops up - "Telephone number to call" - and the iOS number pad appears with a call button in the bottom left. The number pad is represented by the first image in this article. It looks very catchy and we are sure that a lot of people would love to add this widget to their collection for iOS 5's Notification Center.
Despite the above constraints in using the tweak, it is still a quick way to dial a phone number especially if you do not want to fumble around for your Phone application. You will, however, need to be running iOS 5 or above to download this widget because it depends on the Notification Center to function. You can enable the widget or disable it at any time by simply dragging it in and out of the Notification Center in the Settings application under "Settings>Notifications>In notification center". Nevertheless, it would be a nice thing to have if you are an iPhone power-user.
Most often a simple jailbreak tweak could enhance the looks and cool quotient of your iOS device. Cydia brims with many such tweaks that make your homescreen, lockscreen, icons and font look better. Here is another Cydia tweak from the famous Ryan Petrich called IconRotator.
IconRotator tweak animates your SpringBoard icons and makes them rotate according to your iDevice orientation. If you rotate your device to the left, the icons also rotate to the left and so on. It's pretty cool and the animations are very smooth, something that the developers' tweaks are known for. There are no settings to fiddle with and just a Respring after installation does the trick. There are other Cydia tweaks out there that do similar things but their functionality is not so smooth, according to ijailbreak.
Once your device is jailbroken, Cydia provides access to a plethora of really slick and smart jailbreak-only apps. However, it can't actually tell you whether you need any new updates to be installed until you open them up manually. A new app called Curiosa puts Cydia updates right in the Notification Center, so you're alerted as soon as an update is available for your favourite jailbreak apps.
A really neat part of this tweak is the ability to set keywords. This lets you see all Cydia updates for tweaks that contain the same words you add into the Notification Keywords setting of Curiosa. In addition, the way Curiosa interacts with Notification Center can be customised alongside all other apps in the Notifications section of Apple's Settings app. You can see incoming updates on your lock screen as well as the Notification Center drop-down window. Banner notifications will also be displayed for Cydia like any other normal iOS app.
Installing Curiosa will give you instant access to updates but it can do a lot more than that. You can set it to check for updates on whatever interval you want, check on Wi-Fi only, manually refresh with an Activator action, and even set keywords so it only searches for specific apps. To install it, just add the repository to Cydia under "Manage>Sources".
The SMS Timestamps Cydia tweak is your best bet if you are looking for a tweak to provide standalone timestamp functionality sans customisation options for the Messages.app. With this tweak you can modify the Messages.app's default behaviour of setting timestamps at the beginning of an active conversation and then cease to do it until it deems necessary again. In other words, you can either set timestamps to always be enabled or to be displayed after a specified interval of time.
NC settings could be the next replacement for SB settings that allows jailbreakers to perform a number of actions right from Notification Center. NCSettings adds a bunch of useful system settings and toggles in your Notification Centre and lets you quickly adjust Volume or Brightness, Set Orientation Lock, enable or disable Location Services, Bluetooth, Airplane Mode and Respring with ease.
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