Record screen in Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021)

How to record the screen on an Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021)

Recording the screen of your tablet Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021) in a video with sound can be very useful to perform a tutorial or show an acquaintance how to perform certain tasks in an Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021), save in a video file and then send it or upload it to a platform like YouTube or social networks.

Sometimes you would like to record on video with sound a story that you have seen on Instagram of an acquaintance, a phone call or video call (FaceTime) with a family member to keep it as a souvenir or to use it as evidence or a TikTok video.

To make this recording in your Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021) follow these steps:

If, on the contrary, what you want is to take a screenshot of your iPad Pro 11 (2021) in a still image instead of video, click on the following link and follow the indicated steps capture screen on iPad Pro 11 (2021).

Table of Contents:

Estimated time: 2 minutes.

1- First step:

First of all, you need to ensure that screen recording is activated on your iPad Pro 11 (2021). If it is already enabled, you can proceed to step 5. To check, you can go to the "Settings" app, which is represented by a gear icon that appears on the home screen of your Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021).

Settings icon iOS

2- Second step:

Go down through the menu on the left until you find the “Control Centre” section and click on it and then on “Customize controls”.

Control centre

3- Third step:

If you already have the screen recording control activated, it will appear in the first list that you see on your iPad Pro 11 (2021) within the “INCLUDE” section, you can change the order in which it appears by clicking on the three horizontal lines to the right of the control and dragging up or down. You can also remove the control by clicking on the red button on the left.

Controls included

4- Fourth step:

If that activated control does not appear, go down and in the “MORE CONTROLS” section it will appear, click on the green + button Add to panel icon to add it. Once this step is done you can exit the settings of the Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021).

Screen recording control

5- Fifth step:

(iPhone 7 and lower and iPad with iOS 11 or earlier) From the screen where you want to start the video, swipe from the bottom up. (iPhone X, iPad with iOS 12 or iPadOS) From the screen where you want to start the video, swipe from the upper right corner down.

Record screen button

6- Sixth step:

If you want to record a video in your Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021) without using the microphone, press the recording icon, a 3-second countdown will begin and then the recording will begin, you will see a red line at the top of the screen and the word “Recording” which indicates that everything that happens on the screen is being recorded.

If you want to record a video using the microphone in addition to the sound of the iPad Pro 11 (2021) itself, (this is useful for example to explain the operation of an app to an acquaintance or to record a message while recording the video from Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021) screen) press and hold the button Record screen icon press on the microphone to activate or deactivate it and press on “Start recording” a 3-second countdown will begin and then the recording will begin.

Activate screen recording microphone

7- Seventh step:

To stop recording you can open the Control Centre (Point 5 of this tutorial) and press the stop recording button Recording screen icon or click on the red line in the status bar at the top of the screen and press “Stop”.

Stop screen recording

8- Eighth step:

A message will appear at the top of your Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021) screen stating that the screen recording video has been saved to “Photos” (formerly known as the Camera Roll).

To see and share your video recording of the screen of your Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021) go to the Photos application where you will find it in the last position.

Screen recording message saved

Share this information:

Share on WhatsApp Share on Telegram

In your iPad Pro 11 (2021) you can store the screen recordings in video thanks to its internal 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB, 1TB, 2TB memory.

Where are screen recordings saved on the Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021)?

All the screen recordings made on an Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021) are saved in the photo gallery both in the recent images together with the photos and videos captured with the camera and in a specific folder that you can see below.
Screen recordings are saved in MP4 format.

Go to the home screen where you will find the icon of the photo and video gallery of your Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021), it is an icon of a kind of flower with each petal of a different color.

Photos app Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021)

In recent you can see the screen recordings that you have made recently, they are also saved in a specific category called "Screen recordings", to see this category go down to the "Media Types" section, you will see the category "Screen recordings" , press to access and see all the screenshots taken on your Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021).

Media Types: Screen recordings Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021)

Has it been useful?

Questions and problems from users about "How to screen record on Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021) - Screen recording"

There are no questions yet about "How to screen record on Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021) - Screen recording"; you can write the first one.

You might be interested in:

Screenshot
Guided access
Frequently asked questions
Scan documents
Device features
Send location
Video tutorials
Wallpaper