How to screen record on iPhone

Add Screen Recording to Control Centre in Settings › Control Centre, then open Control Centre and tap the button made of two concentric circles. A three-second countdown runs and recording begins. Tap the red status bar and then Stop to finish. The video appears in Photos.

It almost certainly does, but the button has not been added to Control Centre yet — it is not there by default. Add it in Settings › Control Centre. If Screen Recording is missing from that list too, Screen Time restrictions are hiding it: Settings › Screen Time › Content & Privacy Restrictions › Content Restrictions › Screen Recording › Allow. Only an iPhone 5 or 5c genuinely lacks the feature.

Settings › Control Centre, scroll to the list of available controls, and tap the green plus next to Screen Recording. That adds it to Control Centre permanently. You only ever have to do this once.

App sound is recorded automatically as long as the media volume is up. For your own voice, open Control Centre and press and hold the record button rather than tapping it, then turn Microphone on in the panel that appears and tap Start Recording.

The most common cause is that the microphone was off — a normal tap on the record button does not enable it, only a long press reveals the option. Other causes are the media volume being down, an app that suppresses audio capture, or a call, since iOS strips call audio from recordings by design.

Tap the red clock or the red bar at the top of the screen and confirm with Stop. You can also reopen Control Centre and tap the red record button. Both save the recording immediately.

Into the Photos app. They appear in Recents and, on iOS 16 and later, in a dedicated album under Albums › Media Types › Screen Recordings.

No. Apple does not impose one. Recordings end when you stop them, when the phone runs out of storage, or when it overheats or the battery dies. Storage is the real limit — expect roughly 40 to 70 MB per minute.

Identically on all of them. The only difference across models is how you open Control Centre: swipe down from the top-right corner on any iPhone with Face ID, which covers the X and everything after it.

The same way, but Control Centre opens with a swipe up from the bottom edge instead of down from the corner. Every iPhone from the 5s onwards supports screen recording, provided it is running iOS 11 or later.

You can record the picture, but iOS deliberately removes call audio from screen recordings, so the result is silent video of the call. This applies to FaceTime and to normal phone calls. It is a deliberate restriction, not a bug, and recording calls without consent is illegal in many places.

Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video and most paid streaming services use DRM that instructs iOS to exclude their video from any screen capture. The recording runs, but that area is black. No setting or app changes this, and recording streamed films is copyright infringement in most countries.

Yes — anything that appears on screen is in the video, including message previews. Turn on Do Not Disturb or a Focus before recording anything you intend to share.

Not with the built-in recorder. iOS records the screen or the camera, never both. To add a face cam you record the screen first, then use a separate app to film yourself over that footage.

You cannot. iOS stops screen recording when the display locks, because the recorder captures exactly what is being displayed. Recording audio with the screen off is a job for the Voice Memos app.

Open it in Photos, tap Edit, drag the handles at either end of the filmstrip to the section you want, then tap Done. Choose Save Video as New Clip if you want to keep the untrimmed original as well.

Yes, within 30 days. Photos › Albums › Recently Deleted, select the recording, tap Recover. After 30 days it is only recoverable from an iCloud or computer backup made before the deletion.

It captures at your display's own resolution and frame rate — up to 1080p or higher depending on the model — and there is no setting to change it. If you need something smaller, record as normal and compress afterwards.

Yes, and it is the better option for anything you plan to edit. Connect the iPhone with a cable, open QuickTime Player on the Mac, choose File › New Movie Recording, then click the arrow next to the record button and select your iPhone as the camera and microphone source. You get a clean recording without a red status bar, saved straight to the Mac.

Yes, identically. Add it in Settings › Control Centre, and open Control Centre by swiping down from the top-right corner on Face ID iPads or up from the bottom on models with a Home button.

No. That advice is a decade out of date — before iOS 11 there was no built-in recorder and jailbreaking was the only route. Every supported iPhone has recorded its own screen natively since 2017. Jailbreaking today only costs you security and your warranty.

No. Apple does not give web pages access to screen capture in Safari, and because every iOS browser must use Apple's engine underneath, no browser on iPhone can offer it. Browser-based recorders like ours work on computers only. On the phone, the built-in recorder is the answer.