SCREENSHOTS ON APPLE DEVICE
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Screenshot capture on iPhones with Touch ID and Face ID
If you own an Apple device that still has a Home button (like the 2020 iPhone SE), hold down the sleep/wake button and press the Home button to take a screenshot. You will hear a camera shutter (if your sound is on) and see a "flash" on the screen. The screenshot will appear in your camera roll and the Screenshots album.
For devices without a Home button—the iPhone X, 11, and 12 lines, and newer iPad Pro and iPad Air devices—hold down the side button to the right of the screen (top button on an iPad) and the volume up button at the same time.
If you use an Apple Pencil with iPadOS, you can take a screen grab with the drawing tool. Swipe up from the bottom corner with the Apple Pencil to capture the image. You can also choose between your current screen or the entire page, even after the picture has been taken.
To annotate a screenshot, tap the thumbnail that appears at the bottom of the screen once you capture an image. This will open the device's markup tool and allow you to edit the screengrab.
iPhone screen recorder
Some apps may make it difficult to take screenshots through the usual means. This is where your device's built-in Screen Recording tool comes in. While its primary purpose is to record video on your screen, you can pause it and take a screenshot this way.
You can also use a third-party tool to capture the screen on your mobile device from a computer.
Screen recording is built into iPhones, but to use it, you first need to check to see if the screen record button is in your Control Center. To open the Control Center, swipe down from the top-right corner if you're using an iPhone X or later, or swipe up if you have an iPhone 8 or earlier. Check if you have the screen record button, which looks like a dot with a circle around it.
If you don’t, here’s how you can add it:
Open up Settings
Tap “Control Center”
Tap “Customize Controls”
This is where you add and remove items from your Control Center menu. Scroll down and press the green button with a + next to “Screen Recording.” That will move it from the “More Controls” section at the bottom to the “Include” section at the top.
Now, you’re ready to record your screen. (Know that there are apps that block screen recording.) To begin:
Open up the app or website you want to record
Swipe up to pull up the Control Center menu (iPhone 8 or earlier) or pull down the menu from the top-right corner (iPhone X or later)
While in the Control Center, tap the screen record button to start recording. Once you hit the screen record button, a timer will start, which gives you three seconds before it starts recording. Tap the screen to hide the Control Center menu.
Now you’re set to record the video and the audio of whatever you’re watching or listening to on your phone — however, you won’t record any audio that isn’t generated from your phone.
If you want to record yourself talking (or any other external sounds) in addition to recording the audio you’re playing on your phone, you’ll have to turn your microphone on:
Before you start recording, press and hold the screen record button and tap the microphone button on the pop-up screen to turn the microphone on. Then tap “Start Recording.” The countdown will begin in this window. Tap anywhere on the screen to exit the screen, and then tap the next screen to close the Control Center.
Keep in mind that once you turn the microphone on, it will stay on the next time you record your screen unless you go back in and turn it off.
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