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Turn on automatic recording

embral notices a call by watching which apps are using your microphone. These settings live in Settings, under Meetings.

  1. Choose how bold When a call is detected, auto-start should be.
    • After asking (the default) shows a banner naming the app, offering Record or Dismiss. Dismissing keeps it quiet until that call ends.
    • Always records any app that grabs the microphone.
    • Selectively records only the checked meeting apps.
    • Never turns detection off.
  2. Under Meeting apps, check what should count: dedicated apps like Zoom or Teams, and browsers for calls that run in a tab.
  3. Leave Detection delay at 3 seconds unless calls trigger too eagerly.

Stopping by itself

  • Stop when the call ends defaults to stopping recordings that started automatically. Set it to All recordings or Never to taste.
  • Ask after silence checks in when no speech has arrived for a while: a “Still recording?” banner with Keep recording and Stop recording. If unanswered decides what happens when you don’t respond.

Muting doesn’t end a call. Meeting apps hold the microphone through a mute, so a muted call keeps recording.