iOS 11 includes a new Screen Recording tool that finally makes it easy to record a video of your iPhone or iPad’s screen. You don’t need a Mac or a third-party Windows application—all you need is your iPhone or iPad itself.
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How to Record on Your iPhone or iPad
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The new Screen Recording tool added in iOS 11 can only be accessed via a Control Center shortcut, and that Control Center shortcut isn’t enabled by default.
To enable it, head to Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls. Tap the green plus sign button to the left of Screen Recording to add it to your Control Center. You can drag it up or down in the list to position it where you want.
To start recording your screen, swipe up from the bottom of your screen anywhere on your iPhone or iPad to open the Control Center.
To record without capturing audio from your microphone, just tap the Screen Recording button. It looks like a filled-in white circle inside another circle.
To record while capturing audio from your microphone, either hard-press the Screen Recording button if you have a 3D Touch-enabled device or long-press it if you don’t. Tap the “Microphone Audio” button to turn microphone audio on and then tap “Start Recording”. You’ll be able to talk into your iPhone or iPad’s microphone as it records, and that audio will be added to the resulting file.
After you tap the Screen Recording button, it will transform into a timer and begin counting down from 3. You’ll have three seconds to navigate to where you want to start recording from in an app.
After the timer reaches 0, the tool will begin recording and the icon will turn red. You can open the Control Center and tap the red button once again to stop recording.
While recording, your iPhone’s status bar (the top bar) will turn red. You can also tap the red status bar and then tap “Stop” to stop recording.
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When you finish recording, your video will be saved to the Camera Roll on your iPhone or iPad. Open the Photos app to find it. Any videos you capture will be stored in the Screenshots folder in the Albums view along with screenshots you take.
You can edit the resulting video and share it using various apps just as you would with any video you recorded using the Camera app.
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How to Record a Video of Your iPhone from a Mac
As long as you have a device running iOS 8 or newer and a Mac running Yosemite or newer, you can also record a video from your Mac with built-in tools and a regular Lightning-to-USB cable. Your iPhone or iPad must have a Lightning port, so that means devices with the larger 30-pin dock connector—the iPad 3, iPhone 4S, and older device—aren’t supported.
First, connect your iPhone or iPad to your Mac as normal. Use the standard USB-to-Lightning cable you’d use if you were charging your device via your Mac or connecting it to iTunes.
Unlock your iPhone or iPad and open iTunes on your Mac to ensure your Mac can see your connected device. You may see a “Trust This Computer” alert on your iPhone or iPad. Agree to trust your Mac if you’re asked to do so.
The recording feature is part of QuickTime Player, which is included with macOS. Apple does make a version of QuickTime for Windows, but this feature isn’t included in the Windows version of QuickTime.
To record your iPhone’s screen, plug it into your Mac and press Command+Space to open Spotlight search. Type “QuickTime” and press Enter. You can also launch it from Finder > Applications > QuickTime Player.
Click File > New Movie Recording to start capturing video.
A window will pop up, displaying your Mac’s webcam by default. Click the arrow next to the red Record button and select your iPad or iPhone.
You can also select your desired microphone here. For example, you could record a video of your device’s screen while capturing audio from a microphone connected to your Mac.
Your iPhone or iPad’s screen will appear in a QuickTime window on your Mac. Click the red Record button to start recording.
When you do, you’ll see the time and file size start to increase as it records. To avoid visual distractions, the time on your device will be set to 9:41 am and the name of your cellular carrier will be hidden until you stop recording.
When you’re done, click the Stop button. The QuickTime window will then show the video you recorded, and you can click the Play button to play it back.
When you’re satisfied, you can save your video. Click File > Save and choose a file name and location.
Thanks to the Share features on macOS, you can even click the Share button in QuickTime and upload the video you took directly to YouTube, Vimeo, or other services.
QuickTime also allows you to easily record a video of your Mac’s screen—just select “New Screen Recording” instead of “New Movie Recording.” And, as you might expect, you can also use QuickTime’s movie-recording feature to record a video from your Mac’s webcam.
How to Record a Video of Your iPhone from a Windows PC
You can do this on Windows PCs, too, though it isn’t officially supported by Apple. This unofficial method involves running AirPlay receiving software on your PC. You connect to that AirPlay server from your iPhone or iPad, and it will wirelessly stream the contents of your device’s screen to a window on your PC—just like it would use AirPlay to stream to an Apple TV. You can then capture the video on your PC.
There are several methods for this. Software programs like X-Mirage, Reflector2, and Apowersoft iPhone/iPad Recorder advertise this feature. They just package the AirPlay receiver and screen capture tool in a single program, but they all cost money. If you’re looking for something free, just combine a free AirPlay receiver program with a free screen capture tool.
LonelyScreen is a simple, free AirPlay receiver that will do the job. Download and install it on your Windows PC. With the app running, swipe up on the bottom of your iPhone or iPad’s screen to access the control center. Tap “AirPlay MIrroring” and then tap “LonelyScreen” to connect to your PC.
The contents of your iPhone or iPad’s screen will be mirrored in the LonelyScreen window on your PC.
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You can now record this window using any desktop screen recorder tool. For example, on Windows 10, you can use the Game Bar for this. Press Windows+G, click “Yes, this is a game”, and then click the “Record” button on the Game Bar that appears.
When you click “Stop”, Windows will save a clip of the LonelyScreen window. It will be in the C:UsersNAMEVideosCaptures folder in MP4 format, assuming you’re using the default Game Bar settings.
It’s also possible to capture videos of gameplay directly in some iPhone and iPad games, without a Mac or PC. However, the game developer has to add support for this feature. If the developer has, you’ll see a record button somewhere in the game.
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Last month, I posted a short and straightforward guide to show you how to take a screenshot on a Mac computer, similar to the way you use PrtScr or Print Screen key on Windows.
Taking a screenshot on a Mac computer is incredibly easy by using a few keyboard shortcuts. It depends on the keyboard shortcuts. You will be able to take a screenshot of an entire display or a part of it by dragging a box around the area you want to capture.
In this guide, I will explain each method, how it works, as well as taking normal screenshots of Mac; screenshots of a specific area or window; a timed screenshot with Grab; or taking screenshots with third party apps.
How To Take A Screenshot On A Mac Computer
I don’t know how often you use your Mac, but I use it for more than eight hours a day. From everything related to my job, such as reading and replying to emails; doing research and writing articles. I take a lot of screenshots on my Mac laptop daily.
How To Take A Screenshot Of A Part Of Your Mac Screen
My favorite method to take a screenshot on my Mac is pressing these keys: Command + Shift + 4.
Command + Shift + 4
By doing so, your cursor will be turned into a selection box, which will allow you to drag and select areas of your screen that you want to capture. Then you release the mouse button or trackpad to take the screenshot and save it as a PNG file on your desktop.
How To Take A Screenshot Of The Entire Mac Screen
If you want to take a screenshot of your entire display on your Mac, just press Command + Shift + 3. The PNG image file of your screenshot will be saved to your desktop.
Command + Shift + 3
I don’t often use this method as it will take a screenshot of the entire Mac screen, which I don’t need. If you need a particular area of your screen, use the above method. If you use the Command + Shift + 3 shortcut, you need to edit the PNG image again to crop the area your want.
How To Take A Screenshot Of A Selected Window
This method uses the same shortcut as the first method but needs one extra step: Spacebar.
Firstly, hit Command + Shift + 4, your mouse cursor will be turned into a selection box.
Next, press the Spacebar key to turn your mouse cursor into a camera icon. Move the icon over the window that you want to take the screenshot. It will appear highlighted.
Click on it and the screenshot image file will be saved to your Mac desktop as a PNG file automatically.
Change Location Where Your Mac Saves Screenshots
By default, all screenshots will be stored on the desktop screen of your Mac. The name of these image files should be: “Screen Shot + date and time + .png”. Date and time is generated at the moment the screenshot is taken.
However, you can change the location where your Mac computer stores these screenshots. For example, you can create a new folder on your hard drive or even a USB flash drive, and change to save all screenshots directly to this folder.
Don’t know how to do it? Follow this guide to learn how to change the folder where Mac OS X save screenshots.
Capture And Save A Screenshot To Clipboard, Not As A File
Instead of saving a taken screenshot as a PNG file to a selected folder, you can save it to your clipboard, and then paste it into any application as you want. All you need to do is add Control key to the shortcuts you press.
Command + Shift + Control + 3
and
Command + Shift + Control + 4
I’m sure you will need both hands to press all of these keys. Next, you can use Command + V to paste the taken screenshot into any apps, you want.
How To Take A Screenshot On A Mac With Grab
Sometimes, I use the Grab app to take a screenshot on my Mac. What makes this app special? Well, it allows you to start a countdown timer, and when it’s expired, the app will take a screenshot of your entire Mac screen.
It’s a great app to use to assist you to take a screenshot of a menu or of something that will hide when you press any keys. To use the Grab application, launch Finder, click on the Application on the left side, choose Utilities and then Grab.
Or you can also open the Grab app by using Spotlight (Command + Spacebar and search for Grab).
After opening the Grab application, you will not see any window, just look at the menu, it will be shown up there.
Just click on Capture and select the “Timed Screen” option to take a timed screenshot of your Mac.
A new window called “Timed Screen Grab” will show up. Just click on the “Start Timer” button and it will start to counting down from 10 to 0.
The Grab application will take a full screenshot of your Mac and show it within the Grab window. Just select File > Save, to save it if you are happy with it or take a new one.
The Grab application can also allow you to take screenshots of a selected area or a particular window. But it’s probably easier to use above shortcuts than Grab, right?
How To Take A Mac Screenshot With Preview
You can use Preview, a built-in app, to take a screenshot of your Mac screen, and the image file will save as many types as you want, not only PNG.
To take a screenshot on your Mac with Preview, just go to File and select “Take Screen Shot” and then choose the type of screenshot you would like to take. Once you have done so, decide where you want to save the file as well as the file type.
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Use Other Apps To Take A Screenshot On A Mac
Many Mac apps out there can help you to take screenshots, and you might already have your own favorite app. My favorite app to take screenshots on Mac is the Lightshot Screenshot.
It’s a free application, which is now available to download and install from the Mac App Store.
The Lightshot Screenshot app allows you to capture any parts of your Mac screen, and then upload the image to prntscr.com server, and show you a short link like http://prntscr.com/abcde.
If you want to edit your screenshot images, it’s very easy to do with the Lightning fast image editor, which allows adding arrows, lines and text annotations. You can also share your screenshots via Facebook or Twitter.
Skitch is also a great app to use to take screenshots on Mac with many options, such as full screen, screen snap, timed screen snap, and more. Give it a try, it will help you to take screenshots on your Mac.
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How To Change File Type Of The Screenshot On Mac
By default, if you are using shortcuts to take screenshots, the image files will be saved to your desktop as PNG files. But you can easily change this file type by using the command below in Terminal. Just replace the “type” with a three letter code of the image format, such as JPG, TIF, BMP, PDF – without the quotes.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type “type” && killall SystemUIServer
For example:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type JPG && killall SystemUIServer
How To Change The Default Screenshots’ Filename
As I mentioned above, your screenshot will be saved to your desktop by default, with an auto-generated name, like “Screen Shot 2016-06-06 at 18.30.25.png”. However, you can change this name (“Screen Shot”) to another one. Just use the command below in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture name “file-name” && killall SystemUIServer
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Just replace “file-name” with the name you want, without the quotes. For example, if you want to change it to “Picture”, just use:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture name “Picture” && killall SystemUIServer
There is not much difference as it still has a long date-time generated behind. But it might help you to organize files more easily.
So tell me, what is your favorite screenshot method? Is there anything you still don’t know in how to take a screenshot on a Mac OS X computer? Leave your comment below for your thoughts or questions.