How to screen record on Apple iPhone 12 Pro

How to record the screen on an Apple iPhone 12 Pro

Recording the screen of your mobile/cell phone Apple iPhone 12 Pro 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 iPhone 12 Pro, 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 iPhone 12 Pro follow these steps:

If, on the contrary, what you want is to take a screenshot of your iPhone 12 Pro in a still image instead of video, click on the following link and follow the indicated steps: capture screen on iPhone 12 Pro.

Table of Contents:

Estimated time: 2 minutes.

1- First step:

First of all, you need to ensure that screen recording is activated on your iPhone 12 Pro. 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 iPhone 12 Pro.

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”.

3- Third step:

If you already have the screen recording control activated, it will appear in the first list that you see on your iPhone 12 Pro 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.

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 to add it. Once this step is done you can exit the settings of the Apple iPhone 12 Pro.

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.

6- Sixth step:

If you want to record a video in your Apple iPhone 12 Pro 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 iPhone 12 Pro 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 iPhone 12 Pro screen) press and hold the button 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.

7- Seventh step:

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

8- Eighth step:

A message will appear at the top of your Apple iPhone 12 Pro 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 iPhone 12 Pro go to the Photos application where you will find it in the last position.