Have you ever wanted to record the screen of your iPhone? In order to do this, you might be tempted to start downloading sketchy third-party apps that require access to your phone’s screen and settings.
Luckily with the iOS 14 and newer operating systems, you can now record the screen of your iPhone with Apple’s built-in screen recorder. We’ll walk you through the steps to enable the screen recording app and instruct how to use it.
Step 1: Add the screen recorder to the control centre
First you need to add the screen recorder to your iPhone’s control centre. Simply slide down your finger down starting from the top of the screen to access the control centre. With iPhone models that are older than the iPhone X, you can do this by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.
To add the screen recorder to the control centre, go to your iPhone’s Settings. Then, press “Control Centre” and “Customise Controls”. At the top of the view, you’ll see all of the tools you have already included in the control centre. Scroll down the list of different controls and locate “Screen Recording”.
Once you have found the “Screen Recording” -control, press the green plus sign next to it. This adds the screen recorder to your control centre and you are ready to proceed to the next step.
Step 2: Start recording your screen
You’ll now find the screen recorder in the control centre after enabling it in the settings.
To start recording, press the Screen Recording symbol depicting a circle and wait for the short countdown. If you wish to record your voice as well with the screen recorder, press and hold the Screen Recording symbol and then press the microphone button to turn on and off sound recording.
After the recording has started, you will see a red symbol in the upper-right corner indicating that the screen is being recorded.
Step 3: End the recording
Once you wish to end the recording, open the control centre and press the Screen Recording button again. Now, to access the recording, simply navigate to your photos and start watching the recording of your screen.
Summary: Record the screen of your iPhone or iPad
Now that you know this handy trick for recording the screen of your iPhone you can use with Apple’s iPad devices as well. The Screen Recording tool is a handy alternative for simple screenshots and lets you record your device’s screen without having to resort to any additional third-party applications.
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How to record the screen on your iPad
In iOS 11 and above, you can create a screen recording and capture sound on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Record your screen
- Add Screen Recording to Control Center. Go to Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls, then tap next to Screen Recording.
- In iOS 12 or later, open Control Center by swiping down from the upper-right corner of the screen. (For iOS 11, swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen).
- To capture sound while you record, press deeply on and tap Microphone Audio.
- Tap , then wait for the three-second countdown.
- To stop recording, open Control Center and tap . Or tap the red status bar at the top of your screen and tap Stop.
You
can find your screen recording in the Photos app.
Another way to record your iPad screen is within QuickTime player. The iPad screen will display on your laptop.
- Connect your iPad to your computer with the iPad charging cable, like so:
- Open the QuickTime app on your laptop.
- Go to File and select ‘New
Movie Recording’.
- A recording window will appear. You will a see little arrow for drop down menu in front of the record button. Click that arrow and select your iPad for Camera, as well as Microphone (if you want to record music, app/game sounds).
- Once Camera is
selected, you will see your iPad creen displayed on your laptop.
If you do not see your iPad screen displayed, open System Preferences, and click on Security and Privacy. Make sure QuickTime Player is checked for both Camera and Microphone.
- Click the Record button. Now perform the tasks on your iOS device that you want to record.
- Once done, tap the stop button and save the video.
- Done!
Record Your Face and Screen at the Same Time!
Thanks to Diego
Navarro for this great addition!
There's a relatively straightforward way to record both your face and screen at the same time in case you're interested in that. Basically, in quicktime you click "new movie recording" and then "view-->always on top" and then it shows your face through your MacBook camera. You can resize the window and put it anywhere on the screen you want. You don't ever need to start the movie recording, however - in this scenario you're just getting the camera to put your face on the screen as you do the screencast.
You then start a screencast recording. It'll capture whatever is on your screen (which now includes you!).