If you long press on the icon, you can choose where you want the screen recording video to be saved, as well as an option to turn the microphone on or off to capture sound. This will give you a bit of time to close Control Center and prepare to record what you want. Tap on the icon and and it will start a countdown from three. From left: Choosing the saved recording location finding the screen recording icon in Control Center the notification bar turning red when screen recording is active

We’re looking for an icon that looks like a circle with a solid dot in the middle, as show below. If you have an iPhone before iPhone X, like my iPhone 7 Plus, swipe up from the bottom of the screen. If you have an iPhone X or later, or you’re running iPadOS, swipe down from the upper-right corner of the screen to access Control Center.

Find Screen Recording and tap on the plus icon to add it.Īdding Screen Recording in Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls.

Here you’ll find a list of various tools to add to Control Center.

Tap on Control Center, then Customize Controls.

How to Screen Record on iPhone and iPadĪs usual, the process of screen recording is the same on both of these devices. The Mac Observer‘s Charlotte Henry covered how to screen record on a Mac in this article. This is a great tool to use if you want to show a person how to do something on your device, as one example.

With iOS 11 or later, Apple gave us the ability to screen record on iPhone and iPad.

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