You’ll see a red indicator when recording in the top corner of your screen, tap it to stop the recording.Tap the screen recording icon (double circle) to immediately start a recording or long-press to turn the microphone on/off or use a third-party extension like streaming to TikTok, Zoom, and more.

Now open Control Center (swipe down from the top right corner on iPhones without a Home button, pull up from the bottom of your screen on iPhones with a Home button).

Swipe down and tap the green + icon next to Screen Recording.

If you haven’t added it already, head to the Settings app > Control Center.

In addition to being able to record everything that’s on your screen as well as audio via your iPhone or iPad‘s microphone, you can also use the feature to stream to third-party software. Native screen record on iPhone and iPad first arrived with iOS 11 but if you don’t use it regularly, it can be easy to forget about.

Read on for how to screen record on iPhone and iPad including how to save the video to your device and stream screen recordings to third-party apps. Grabbing a screen recording is a handy feature in a variety of scenarios.

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