A screen recording captures everything you normally see on your screen directly to a file. But instead of a still image, it’s a video that gets saved to your Photos library. Screen recordings are great for capturing errors or bugs in action, making tutorial videos, and more. Keep in mind that you can’t take a screen recording while mirroring your iPhone’s screen to another display. Otherwise, everything on the screen gets captured, including notifications.
To enable the Screen Recording button, first open the Settings app.
In Settings, select “Control Center” near the top.
In Control Center settings, swipe down and select “Screen Recording” (with the plus symbol beside it). This will move it from the “More Controls” list to the “Included Controls” list and will make it show up in Control Center.
Now that you’ve added the Screen Recording button to Control Center (covered in the section above), you can take a screen recording at any time. To do so, first open Control Center by swiping downward with one finger in the upper-right corner of your iPhone’s screen.
In Control Center, the Screen Recording button (a circle within another circle) will be located near the bottom of the panel with the other shortcuts.
If you want to make a screen recording without audio, you can select the Screen Recording button once. However, if you’d like to capture audio from your iPhone’s microphone during the screen recording, select and hold the Screen Recording button.
If you select the button once, skip to the next step. But if you pressed and held the Screen Recording button, you’ll see a special pop-up menu. To turn on microphone recording, select the microphone icon until it turns red and says “Microphone On” beneath it. Next, select “Start Recording.”
After three seconds, your iPhone will begin recording all activities on the screen (and your microphone audio as well, if you enabled that option). You’ll notice that both the Screen Recording icon in Control Center and the clock in the upper-left corner of the screen turn red while your iPhone is recording.
When you’re finished capturing your screen recording, select the red clock in the upper-left corner of the screen, then select “Stop” in the pop-up menu.
You can also stop the screen recording by opening Control Center and selecting the Screen Recording button again. When it turns from red to white, you’ll know the recording has stopped.
After that, you’ll see a pop-up notification informing you that the screen recording you just captured has been saved to your Photos library.
To view or share your screen recording later, open the Photos app as you usually would. Among your photos and videos, you’ll see a thumbnail that represents the screen recording.
