Call Recording button cannot be disabled in the Dialer/Phone app

[disneymom2twins]

Besides just hating all the ui changes (it wasn't broke so why "fix" it??), the addition of the record button to the dialer screen is INSANELY BAD AND THERE'S NO WAY TO DISABLE IT. I cannot use earbuds. I have to hold my phone to my ear. My only working ear. And it's CONSTANTLY triggering the record function. Purple are getting passed off (and I don't blame them). I know people in the legal & medical professions who are having their employment threatened because they're having the same issue. Not only was the icon NOT needed on the dial screen, to force it and not offer a way to disable it is absolute lunacy. Whoever did this UI update design should be FIRED. You need to make a kill switch for this stupid recording function NOW. 

The only "workaround" is to use a different dialer (I'm using phone by Google). But i SHOULD NOT HAVE TO. And this problem is not unique to S21 models, it affects EVERYONE and it's dreadful. FIX THIS. 

[officialguy]

I looked at that page. I notice that it also offers call recording. If it's a system setting, it would do the same thing.
As many things that OneUI 7 has wrecked, I think it's most frustrating that it's made it impossible to use my phone as a phone.

[Robin621k]

No, it doesn't. There is no record button in Google phone dialer.

[realaud]

@Robin621k the recording icon doesn't show until the call is active.  It does not show on the dial pad.  I viewed the images in the store.  In any case, it's out of the way.

[Robin621k]

That is on a Pixel, not Samsung. There is no record button when I switch to GOOGLE Phone. Out and incoming calls.

[realaud]

OK, maybe the app info used old photos.  I tapped the link.  It's confusing, though that Google has two dialing apps Google Voice, and Phone by Google.  Even so, one is unlikely to have their face accidentally activate the recording as it is not sticking out in pisutz.

You are right, though.  I just activated it on my phone and dialed VM and it is not on my control panel either.

[jegesq]

Msybe for you. But not the rest of us.

[jegesq]

Why dhould I need to replace the dialer on my $1200 phone? I paid for a phone with a dialing app that until a few days ago worked great. Everything you have suggested as a workaround is stuff none of us should have to do. Wear earbuds? Always use spesker phone? Screw that. I want what I paid for. Not this defective **bleep** that my dialing app has now become.

[Robin621k]

I have never activated the record button in the 5 months that I have had Ui7.

I also don't hold my phone flush to my, just the top speaker to my ear and the bottom microphone away from my face.

No one is telling you to use Google dialer. You do you.

[realaud]

The dialer is like any other app. If you don't like the one provided, you download one you like better. If you won't use a different dialer when you don't like a new feature of your current one just because you "paid $1200" for your phone, that's a nonsensical argument.

[jegesq]

It is nonsenseical according to you. So, as The Dude would say, that's like just your opinion, man.