In 1.5.23 we made Cue ask before every meeting recording. A card came up, and nothing was recorded until you pressed Record. In 1.5.24 Cue can start by itself again, and you choose which calls it records.
Four choices
Settings › Meetings has a row called "Calls Cue notices". It now offers four choices:
- Always. A call records without a card.
- Trusted. The apps and websites you switch on record without a card. Everything else gets the card.
- Ask. The card from 1.5.23. Nothing records until you press Record. A new install starts here.
- Off. Cue does not watch for calls.
Your meeting shortcut starts a recording at once, whatever you choose here.
If you used Always or Selective before 1.5.23, that update moved you to Ask. Pick your choice again in Settings › Meetings.
A trusted list
Think about what you would trust to record without asking. It is not "everything my browser opens". It is Google Meet. So the trusted list holds apps and websites, and no browsers.
- Apps. Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and FaceTime start switched on.
- Websites. Google Meet, Zoom, Teams and Webex on the web start switched on, in any browser.
- Chat apps start off. Slack, Discord and WhatsApp also take the microphone for voice notes, so Cue asks about them until you say otherwise.
You can add any app. You can add any website by typing its address, such as riverside.fm. A website you add yourself works where Cue can read the page's address, which today is Chrome and Dia.
Something that is switched off is not ignored. Cue asks about it, with the card.
A warning, not a surprise
The old Always recorded anything that touched the microphone, so a voice note or a web page testing your mic could become a meeting.
Always now records what looks like a call: a call app, or a browser tab Cue recognises as Meet, Zoom, Teams or Webex. When it is not sure, a card says "Recording starts in 10 seconds" with two buttons, Record now and Don't record. Leave it alone and the recording starts.
The recording ends when the call does
A recording that began from a noticed call now stops 30 seconds after the call ends. It used to be 3 seconds, which cut a call in two whenever the line dropped and came back. Rejoin within 30 seconds and it stays one recording. A delay you chose yourself is kept.
The wait was also unreliable. It ran in a hidden part of the app that macOS puts to sleep, so a recording could stop late, or stop at the very moment you rejoined. Cue now counts the wait where it cannot be put to sleep.
See Cue 1.5.23 for calendar reminders, website controls and the fixes for Claude Code and Codex.