How to take a screen recording
If you would like to take a screen recording of your phone’s activity, check out the detailed instructions below.
Take a screenshot or record your screen on your Android device
You can take a picture (screenshot) or record a video of your phone’s screen. After you capture your screen, you can view, edit and share the image or video.
Take a screenshot
- Open the screen that you want to capture.
- Depending on your phone:
- Press the Power and Volume down buttons at the same time.
- If that doesn’t work, press and hold the power button for a few seconds. Then tap Screenshot.
- If neither of these work, go to your phone manufacturer’s support site for help.
- At the bottom left, you’ll find a preview of your screenshot. On some phones, at the top of the screen, you’ll find screenshot capture.
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Record your phone screen
- Swipe down twice from the top of your screen.
- Tap Screen record
.
- You might need to swipe right to find it.
- If it’s not there, tap Edit
and drag Screen record
to your Quick Settings.
- Choose what you want to record and tap Start. The recording begins after the countdown.
- To stop recording, swipe down from the top of the screen and tap the Screen recorder notification
.
Find screen recordings
- Open your phone’s Photos app
.
- Tap Library
Movies.
For reference, you can refer to this link.
Record the screen on your iOS device
With iOS 11 or later, and iPadOS, you can create a screen recording and capture sound on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
How to record your screen
- With iOS 14 or later, go to Settings > Control Centre and tap More Controls (or tap Customise Controls if you have iOS 13 or earlier), and then tap the Add button
next to Screen Recording.
- Open Control Centre on your iPhone or iPod touch, or on your iPad.
- Touch and hold the grey Record button
and then tap Microphone.
- Tap Start Recording, then wait for the three-second countdown.
- Open Control Centre on your iPhone or iPod touch, or on your iPad, and then tap the red Record button
. Or tap the red status bar at the top of your screen and tap Stop.
Go to the Photos app and select your screen recording.
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Some apps may not allow you to record audio. You can’t record your screen and use screen mirroring at the same time. Please see this link for further details.