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<\/p>\nYou know how to use the Camera app on your iPhone or iPad to take a video, but did you know that you can also record a video of what happens on the screen of your device? That\u2019s useful if you\u2019re trying to explain the steps of some technical process to a friend or show a tech support rep what\u2019s going wrong in an app or Web site. You could also use a screen recording to copy a video from Facebook, for instance, that you want to send to a social media\u2013averse friend.<\/p>\n
First, to get set up, go to Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls and tap the green + button next to Screen Recording to add it to the list of controls that appear in Control Center. Drag it in the list to rearrange where its round Record button will show up in Control Center. Here\u2019s a screen recording showing those steps:<\/p>\n
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Making your first screen recording is simple. Follow these steps:<\/p>\n
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<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nIn fact, if you want to keep your options for the destination app and microphone at their current settings, making a screen recording is even easier:<\/p>\n
Told you it was simple. But we bet you have questions, so let\u2019s provide some answers.<\/p>\n
Where did my screen recording go?<\/b><\/p>\n
As the notification informs you, screen recordings end up in the Photos app, just like any other photo or video. You\u2019ll see them both in the Photos view and in Albums > Media Types > Videos.<\/p>\n
What are Messenger and Skype doing in the screenshot earlier?<\/b><\/p>\n
Instead of recording your screen to a video file, you can instead broadcast it to a Facebook Messenger or Skype chat. That might be useful for a quick show-and-tell while having a conversation.<\/p>\n
Can I edit the screen recording?<\/b><\/p>\n
Yes, although the Photos app limits you to trimming frames from the start and end of the video (which actually creates a new video with your selection rather than editing the original). For more significant editing, tap the \u2022\u2022\u2022 button in the Photos edit interface and send the video to iMovie.<\/p>\n
Is there any way to show my taps and drags in the screen recording?<\/b><\/p>\n
Yes, but it\u2019s not easy. There\u2019s a trick that relies on iOS\u2019s Accessibility features<\/a>, but it\u2019s way too clumsy and leaves the Assistive Touch button on the screen the entire time. A better approach would be to use a dedicated app like ScreenFlow<\/a> (which is what we used above) to insert circles where your fingers touch down, but that\u2019s worthwhile only for videos where you need higher production values.<\/p>\n For the most part, though, the point of screen recordings is not to make the perfect movie\u2014it\u2019s to create and share a video of something that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to convey.<\/p>\n (Featured image by Lisa Fotios <\/a>from Pexels<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever wanted to show a remote friend how to do something on your iPhone rather than talk them through it, step by step? The screen recording feature of iOS is just what the tech support doctor ordered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,184,69,880,8,112,185],"tags":[117,1080],"class_list":["post-7196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consultants","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","tag-iphone","tag-iphonevideo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7200,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions\/7200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}