Screen recording is the video version of a screenshot. If you want to show something on your iPhone 12 to someone on the other side of the screen, the screen recorder allows you to capture your screen as you see it in a video.
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What Is a Screen Recording?
On your iPhone 12, a screenshot captures a still image, but a screen recording directly captures a video that reflects everything you do on your iPhone’s screen, including notifications, apps, games, and more. You can use it to assist with troubleshooting, share actions with others, make instructional videos, and other tasks. Just remember that you can’t make a screen recording while using Screen Mirroring.How to Enable the “Screen Recording” Button
Using Screen Recording on your iPhone 12 requires enabling a special “Screen Recording” button in Control Center. (If you’ll recall, Control Center can be accessed by swiping down from the battery icon in the upper-right corner of the screen.)To get started, first open the Settings app.
How to set up Control Center
- Go to Settings
- Choose Control Center
- Tap Customize Controls
- If Screen Recording is not in the top list, tap on it in the second
- Now it's in the top list, tap and hold to rearrange it
- Tap Back
It's slightly confusing how you can rearrange the various controls in Control Center because they're presented here as a vertical list, but that's not how you'll use them later. Later in Control Center itself, you'll see both that they're arranged as rows of buttons, and also that you are limited to rearranging controls in the bottom half of the screen only.
Nonetheless, when you have added the screen recording button and can then spot it in Control Center, you're good to go.
How to Set Up the Screen Recorder on Your iPhone 12?
In the iPhone series, the screen recording feature does not show in the control center by default. Following are the steps to add the screen recorder to your control center.
How to Add Screen Record to Your iPhone 12
Before recording your screen on iPhone 12, you need to add the option to your Control Center to be able to find the controls easily. Here's how to add it.
- On your iPhone 12, tap Settings.
- Tap Control Center.
- Scroll down to Screen Recording.
- Tap the + (green plus) logo next to it.
- Screen Recording controls have been added to your Control Center.