Samsung’s next One UI update may let Galaxy owners record WhatsApp, Telegram and Google Meet calls. Screenshots from a One UI 9.5 test build, published on 10th November 2026, show a Phone app setting called “Record calls in other apps”. Samsung hasn’t announced One UI 9.5 or any of its features, so this is still a leak.
One UI is Samsung’s version of Android for Galaxy phones. It gets a major version each year and a smaller “.5” update about six months later. One UI 9.5 is expected on the Galaxy S27 series early next year, and in August we saw Samsung testing it on the Galaxy S26 and the unannounced Galaxy S27 Ultra.
What the setting does
The setting sits in the Phone app’s Settings, under Call recording and transcripts. Tap “Record calls in other apps” and you get a list headed “Available apps”, with WhatsApp, Google Meet and Telegram, each with its own switch. Those were the only compatible calling apps on the test phone, so the final list could be longer.
Samsung’s Phone app already records ordinary calls, the ones you make over your SIM card. WhatsApp and Telegram calls are internet calls played by the apps themselves, so that recorder doesn’t pick them up.
Why you can’t record them today
A Play Store recording app can’t capture the call audio either. Its microphone hears your side of the call, but Android only lets an app copy sound that another app plays as media, game or unlabelled audio. Google’s developer guide leaves call audio off that list. Android’s own system components aren’t held to that limit. Samsung’s Phone app is part of the phone’s software, and we think that’s how it can do what a downloaded app can’t.
Recorder apps used to get around this through Android’s accessibility tools, which exist to help people with disabilities. Google banned that in May 2022, and its Play Store policy says apps can’t use those tools for “remote call audio recording”. That mostly leaves recorder apps from outside the Play Store, which usually means handing an unknown developer access to your calls. So if this setting ships, a Galaxy owner who needs to record a WhatsApp call, say an interview, won’t need one of those apps.
Will the other person know?
We think so, at least for the people on the call when you start. Samsung’s recorder for ordinary calls plays an audio notification that everyone on the call hears. A note on the leaked screen says that notification “will not be heard by participants joining or being added to an ongoing call that is being recorded”, asks you to tell them, and adds “You must comply with all laws related to recording calls.” Samsung’s regular recorder carries the same warning about people added to group calls, so this may be the existing note, and Samsung hasn’t said whether app calls get the notification. We’d tell people first anyway, since the note puts the legal side on you.
What we don’t know yet
Samsung hasn’t said which Galaxy phones get One UI 9.5, or in which countries this setting will appear. The screenshots don’t show whether Transcript assist, the Galaxy AI feature that turns recorded calls into text on supported models, will work on these recordings. Because this is a test build, Samsung could change or drop the setting before release.
OnePlus already does some of this, with AI call summaries for WhatsApp, Snapchat and other apps through a feature called AI VoiceScribe.
For Galaxy owners in Kenya, expect a wait. One UI 9 came on the new foldables in August, reached the Galaxy S26 in September and got to some Galaxy A56 and A36 variants in October. If One UI 9.5 follows a similar path, other Galaxy phones would get it in the months after the S27 launches. When the beta opens, we’ll check whether more apps join the list and whether the setting shows up on Kenyan units.
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