Whichever iPhone you’ve got, there are two ways to record a video of what’s on the screen, whether it’s when you want to preserve a memory or to create a tutorial for someone.
Whichever iPhone you’ve got, there are two ways to record a video of what’s on the screen, whether it’s when you want to preserve a memory or to create a tutorial for someone.
At some point, someone has asked you how to do something on your iPhone 11, and if they were right there with you, you’d just do it right in front of them or for them on their iPhone. You’d show them how to do it and they’d know.
But they’re not with you. They could be in a remote location with no way to pay a visit, such as halfway across the country or under a government-ordered lockdown situation. Which means you will probably have to talk them through it.
Describing how to do things over the phone is liable to cause injury. Or given that shaking your iPhone undoes things, it could lead to an awful lot of undone actions before they finally get that you mean they should tap the teeny i button.
What you can do instead is screen-record your iPhone. Do the things you’re describing to them, take the steps, and let the iPhone make a video of you doing it. Then you can send them that video explainer.
In the end, you’re both sorted. They have a record of what they need to do for a specific task, and you’re saved from having to go through the explanation process yet again in the future.
There are two ways to accomplish this, with one being suitable for quickly dashing off a short video, and one for making longer or more elaborate movies. The quick way involves a little preparation, though, as you need to set up Control Center to include a screen record button.
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.
