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How to Capture and Record an iPhone or iPad Screen Video?
Updated: August 2016
Since 2012, things have changed quite a lot when it comes to recording your iPhone or iPad screens.
The most known option at the time to record a video of what was on your iOS device’s screen was to use the simulator on your Mac. Because video is being used more and more to present an app (whether it’s for an App Preview, a promo video or a video ad), Apple and other companies have made it much simpler for us.
Let’s take a look at your options.
QuickTime Player
This option was introduced with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, and is what we recommend to record iPhone screen or iPad screen. All your need is:
- An iOS device running iOS 8 or later
- A Mac running OS X Yosemite or later
- Lightning cable (the cable that comes with iOS devices)
No need for jailbreak, a third party app or additional hardware.
Here are the steps to do it:
- Connect your iPhone or iPad to your Mac via the lightning cable
- Open QuickTime player
- Click File then select ‘New Movie Recording’
- A recording window will appear (with you in it, most likely). Click the little arrow of the drop down menu in front of the record button, then select your iPhone or iPad
- Select the Mic of your iPhone if you want to record music/sound effects
- Click the Record button. Now perform the tasks on your iOS device that you want to record
- Once done tap the stop button and save the video.
Quick tip: by hitting Cmd + T you’ll be able to directly trim your video before saving it, so you only keep the relevant part of the recording.
ScreenFlow
ScreenFlow provides a similar way to record your iOS device, like QuickTime does. The bonus is that you can also edit the video within ScreenFlow, instead of having to open another program, like iMovie.
Sometimes, ScreenFlow is also better at capturing video, where QuickTime can be choppy. Since QuickTime is free, you should try that first.
But if that doesn’t work to well, then give ScreenFlow a try.
To get started, simply plug in your iOS device to your Mac with a Lighting cable and open ScreenFlow. It will automatically detect your device and give you the option to record that screen.
Make sure that the Record Screen from box is checked and the right device is selected. If you want to record the audio too, check the Record Audio from box and make sure that the right device is selected.
Then hit the record button and start doing your app demo. Once you are done recording, ScreenFlow will open the editing screen.
Easy right?
El gato
Before Apple made it simple to record your iOS device with the QuickTime player, at Apptamin we used one of the Elgato game capture devices which was mostly known to gamers.
Here was the full setup:
- iOS device
- iPhone to HDMI adapter (like this one)
- HDMI cable
- El Gato game capture device
Check out the video below for more information.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlpzbdR0eJw[/youtube]Reflector
We also used the Reflector app at the very beginning, and still use it for specific videos when shooting live.
Reflector 2 currently costs $14.99 and let’s you mirror what’s happening on your iOS or Android device screen on the computer, using AirPlay mirroring or Google Cast . There are Mac and Windows versions.
What’s great about Reflector is that it does not require any cable: just your iPhone (or iPad) and a computer.
Reflector can record your iPhone screen at up to 60fps, lets you include device frames when recording and record multiple devices at the same time. However, it is not possible to record with a resolution as high as you can do with QuickTime player (1080 x 1920 with an iPhone 6 Plus for example).
Apowersoft iPhone/iPad Recorder
Another option to record iPhone and iPad screen is by using Apowersoft iPhone/iPad Recorder. It features iOS screen mirroring, recording and screenshot taking. Without jailbreaking your devices, you can easily do this trick by utilizing Apple’s AirPlay function.
Simply set your iDevice and computer (Windows or Mac) under the same network, then you can successfully connect and mirror iOS screen. This application supports recording screen with audio from your phone system, microphone, both or none. You can select the desirable audio input for capturing as you wish.
The software is free to download but if you want the full version it currently costs around $40. Judging from the comments it seems a lot of users experience some lagging.
Record Directly From Your iPhone or iPad
If you jailbreak your iPhone or your iPad, you’ll be able to record your screen without any cable or computer by using the Display Recorder app ($4.99) on Cydia. Even if your device runs iOS 9 (I’m assuming they’ll keep updating the app).
Several options allow you to define the video/audio format (cannot record system audio), the framerate (on a scale, you can’t actually choose which framerate you’re using) , whether to show “taps” (a circle that highlights where the taps are done) or if the phone is used in portrait or landscape mode.
Here is more information.
On older versions of iOS it seems that this could be done with the Shou app as well.
Conclusion
So that’s how it’s done. Choose the method that works best for you and fits your budget.
Now that you know how to record your iOS device, what content should you include in your videos? Our video marketing guidewill give you some tips.
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