I use QuickTime screen recording frequently to send demo videos and this makes the files a lot smaller to send across to clients.Ī few words of warning before you depart, dear reader. You will find that you have been left with a rather large file and an app called Handbrake which is free, can help to compress these files down to about a quarter of the size. So click the central button to begin your recording and click it again to finish your recording. I would recommend having the volume bar down at zero as this will feed back any sound to you. Lastly you can select the quality of the video. You can also choose your microphone, either your internal Mac mic or iPhone mic can be selected. The iPhone camera should be selected automatically.

There is a little arrow to the right of the circular button, which if you click will give you options for your camera. When you hover over the image of your phone on your Mac, a little toolbox will appear, there is a circular button which you will click to begin your recording but there are a few options which you may want to edit first. As long as your phone is connected it seems to load up your iPhone screen automatically.

You’ll then want to go to File and click New Movie Recording. You will then want to link your iPhone to your machine with a cable. Just remember to turn it back on once you’re finished your screen recording!įirst of all you need to have the QuickTime app on your machine (if you have a Mac you already have this installed). It made me think back to a recording that I had done before using QuickTime on my Mac and I thought it would make for a good article, so here we go!īefore we start when I’m recording the screen of my iPhone I’ll quite often turn off the auto-lock setting, you can do this by following Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock > Never. Recently a friend asked on Twitter did anyone know an iOS app that enabled you to record videos of your phone screen.

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