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Your Webex meeting is being recorded: who can record, how to tell, and how to get or stop it

In Webex only the host — or a cohost standing in for an absent host — can record. A meeting can be set to record from the moment it starts, and a company can have every cloud recording transcribed.

Part of Cisco's own app Read on 10 November 2026

How it got into your call

The host pressed Record, or scheduled the meeting in the Webex App to start recording automatically when the meeting starts.
If the host is not there, a cohost takes over the host's role and can record; when the host arrives, they take it back.
A company's Webex site administrator can switch on automatic transcripts of recordings, so recording a meeting can also mean a written transcript of it.

Turn it off

Ask the host not to record, or to untick automatic recording when they schedule the meeting.
A company's site administrator decides whether recording is available at all on Enterprise plans; on the free plan, cloud recording is not available.

Stop it in a call that is running

Look at the top right of the meeting window: the recording indicator shows while the meeting is being recorded.
Only the host (or the cohost acting as host) can stop it. If you are an attendee, ask them. A meeting started by phone cannot be recorded.

What it keeps

Cloud recordings go to the host's User Hub, and the host is emailed a link when it is ready — it can take up to a day. Attendees and cohosts do not get a copy in their own list; they have to ask the host for the link. The host can delete a recording, and delete it permanently from the trash.

In Cisco's own words

Attendees cannot record

Cisco“If you were invited to the meeting, ask the host to record.”help.webex.com/en-us/article/n62735y/Webex-Record-a-Meeting

A cohost in the host's place

Cisco“If the host isn't in the meeting, a cohost assumes the host role and can record.”help.webex.com/en-us/article/n62735y/Webex-Record-a-Meeting

Recording from the start

Cisco“you can choose to automatically start recording when the meeting starts.”help.webex.com/en-us/article/n62735y/Webex-Record-a-Meeting

How you can tell

Cisco“the recording indicator appears on the top-right of your window, letting you know that the meeting is being recorded.”help.webex.com/en-us/article/n62735y/Webex-Record-a-Meeting

Transcripts

Cisco“Site Administrators can enable the automatic transcription of audio for MP4 meeting recordings before you record your meeting or webinar.”help.webex.com/en-us/article/n62735y/Webex-Record-a-Meeting

Getting a copy

Cisco“If you were invited to a meeting as an attendee or cohost, ask the host of your meeting to get the recording.”help.webex.com/en-us/article/n62735y/Webex-Record-a-Meeting

Phone-started meetings

Cisco“If you start a meeting or webinar by phone, you can't record it.”help.webex.com/en-us/article/n62735y/Webex-Record-a-Meeting

Deleting it

Cisco“Delete one or more recordings, remove recordings from the trash, or delete them permanently.”help.webex.com/en-us/article/n62735y/Webex-Record-a-Meeting

Read on 10 November 2026 from Cisco's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.

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