Record screen on Huawei nova 5i Pro

How to record the screen on a Huawei nova 5i Pro

Recording the screen of your mobile/cell phone Huawei nova 5i Pro in a video with sound can be very useful to perform a tutorial or show an acquaintance how to perform certain tasks in a Huawei nova 5i 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 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 Huawei nova 5i Pro follow these steps:

If, on the contrary, what you want is to take a screenshot of your Huawei nova 5i Pro in a still image instead of video, click on the following link and follow the indicated steps: capture screen on Huawei nova 5i Pro.

Table of Contents:

Estimated time: 5 minutes.

1- First step:

First of all, you are going to check that you have the screen recording icon in the quick access panel of your Huawei nova 5i Pro. (If you already have it, you can go to point 5).

To check it, unlock your nova 5i Pro and slide a finger from the top edge of the screen down a few centimeters to display the quick panel in which the quick settings will appear such as connecting to a Wi-Fi network, connecting Bluetooth, mute, airplane mode, etc.

Slide down again with one finger to display the full panel, check if it has the screen recording icon shown below:

Record screen icon nova 5i Pro

2- Second step:

If you do not see the screen recording icon on the quick panel of your Huawei nova 5i Pro click on the edit icon of the quick panel, which is normally the symbol of a pencil.

Edit quick panel icon nova 5i Pro

3- Third step:

The icons of the settings that you have already defined in the Huawei nova 5i Pro quick panel will appear above and below, separated by a horizontal line, the settings icons that you can add to the panel.

look for the screen recording icon, click on the icon and without releasing it, drag to the top to add it to the quick panel.

If you do not see the screen recording icon on your nova 5i Pro device, it may be disabled by the manufacturer or not available on Huawei nova 5i Pro, in which case you go to the point “If you do not have the option to record screen natively”.

Edit quick panel nova 5i Pro

4- Fourth step:

You already have the screen recording icon on the Huawei nova 5i Pro quick panel, press "Done" to close the nova 5i Pro quick panel editing screen.

Record screen icon nova 5i Pro

5- Fifth step:

To start the recording you have two options: simultaneously press the volume up and power buttons of the Huawei nova 5i Pro or a simpler and less likely to fail which is to display the quick panel by sliding a finger from the top of the screen and pressing the screen recording icon that you added in the previous steps.

Record screen icon nova 5i Pro

6- Sixth step:

If it is the first time that you record the screen on the Huawei nova 5i Pro, several messages will appear asking for permissions. The first will ask us for permission to access photos, media files, videos, etc. Click on "allow" since it is necessary to grant this permission so that the video of the screen recording is stored in the internal memory of the nova 5i Pro.

Screen recording message nova 5i Pro

7- Seventh step:

The next permission that you must grant on your Huawei nova 5i Pro is to allow audio files to be recorded, this permission allows you to record internal sounds, that is, the sounds that the nova 5i Pro itself emits, for example in videos.

Record audio permission message Huawei nova 5i Pro

8- Eighth step:

The following message that will appear when recording the screen of the Huawei nova 5i Pro is a warning that all operations that occur from that moment will be recorded, that includes the recording of personal information and passwords, it will also ask for permission to access the microphone to record ambient sound, this is useful for example if you want to record your voice at the same time as the screen.

MRecord permission message Huawei microphone

9- Ninth step:

Finally, an information message will appear on how to mute the microphone and how to stop screen recording on your Huawei nova 5i Pro. Press "Got it" to start screen recording.

Final message record screen Huawei

10- Tenth step

To stop recording, simultaneously press the volume up and power buttons on your Huawei nova 5i Pro again or click on "Stop" at the top left of the screen. You can also swipe from the top of the screen to open the notification list and stop recording from there by pressing the square button.

Stop screen recording nova 5i Pro

11- Step eleven

The captured video is saved in the photo and video gallery of your Huawei nova 5i Pro. Open the gallery and click on the last element that appears, you can edit the video and send it or upload it to a social network.

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If the Huawei nova 5i Pro does not have the option to record screen

In the event that the screen recording icon is not available and that simultaneously pressing the volume up and power buttons on the Huawei nova 5i Pro does not start the video recording, you will have to download an application from the application store to perform this action.

To do this you go to your application store either Play Store, Galaxy Store or any other that you use on your Huawei nova 5i Pro and search for “screen recorder”, you must bear in mind that any free application that you download will contain advertising, and you must not download any application that ask us for excessive permissions such as access to Bluetooth, contacts or the camera.

The permissions that will be required for any screen recording application are “Access to multimedia content and files”, the permission to “Record video and audio” and the “Show above” permission is optional if you want to have a floating window with the controls of record, microphone, stop, etc.

Screen record app

Once installed you can return to the first step of this tutorial.

In your nova 5i Pro you can store the screen recordings in video thanks to its internal 256 GB or 128 GB memory.

You will be able to see the video of the screen recording in the photo gallery of your Huawei nova 5i Pro.

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