{"id":135692,"date":"2025-09-05T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/135692\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:48:09","slug":"ios-26-introduces-higher-quality-screen-recordings-for-iphone-and-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/135692\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26 introduces higher quality screen recordings for iPhone and iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Recording-Upgrade-Header.jpeg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, iOS 26 will let you record the screen of your <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/41EGWNy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/41EGWNy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPad<\/a> in its full resolution, resulting in higher-quality and better-looking screen captures.<\/p>\n<p>Screen recording was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2017\/06\/08\/how-to-enable-screen-recording-ios-11-without-a-computer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first introduced\u00a0<\/a>with iOS 11, finally providing an easy way to capture what\u2019s on your screen without using a computer. Since then, the resolution of those recordings has been limited to a maximum of 1920px in either height or width. This means that all modern iPhones have recorded at 884\u00d71920, which on an iPhone 16 Pro Max is only about two-thirds the full resolution. This, of course, resulted in a low-res video that looked compressed and blurry. <\/p>\n<p>With the latest beta of iOS 26, however, screen recordings have been upgraded to record in the full resolution of your device, resulting in a much clearer recording.<\/p>\n<p>Comparison<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this change, screen recordings on an iPhone 16 Pro Max were recorded at a resolution of 884\u00d71920. Now with the latest beta of iOS 26, they are recorded at 1320\u00d72868, which is its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone-16-pro\/specs\/#:~:text=2868%E2%80%91by%E2%80%911320%2Dpixel%20resolution%20at%20460%C2%A0ppi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full screen resolution<\/a>. This upgrade in resolution and quality is best shown through images:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"1017192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iOS-26-Screen-Recording-Old-Closeup.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"264\" class=\"image-compare__image-before\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"1017193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iOS-26-Screen-Recording-New-Closeup.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"396\" class=\"image-compare__image-after\"\/>iOS 26 Beta 1 vs iOS 26 Beta 6<\/p>\n<p>Despite the increase in resolution, file sizes remain moderately similar. A 12-second screen recording of the same on-screen content was 24.2 MB on iOS 26 Beta 6, up only 5.3 MB from 18.9 MB on Beta 1.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"884\" height=\"1920\" data-id=\"1017187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iOS-26-Screen-Recording-Old.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1017187\"  \/>iOS 26 Beta 1<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1320\" height=\"2868\" data-id=\"1017188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iOS-26-Screen-Recording-New.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1017188\"  \/>iOS 26 Beta 6<\/p>\n<p>Final thoughts<\/p>\n<p>I for one am very happy to see screen recordings finally be captured at full resolution. I often use screen recordings during app development, and the lower quality can make it hard to see finer details.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these upgrades, iOS 26 will also bring several more new features to screenshots and screen recordings, such as the ability to record in HDR, an\u00a0option to <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/29\/ios-26-solves-a-pesky-carplay-annoyance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disable CarPlay screenshots<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/15\/iphone-screenshots-are-getting-three-powerful-new-features-in-ios-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Lookup<\/a>. iOS 26\u00a0is available\u00a0in <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/24\/ios-26-now-available-features\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">public beta<\/a> and is expected to release in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>You can read our full iOS 26 roundup\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/24\/ios-26-now-available-features\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite Apple accessories:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5mac.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756832768_539_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756832768_518_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time, iOS 26 will let you record the screen of your iPhone or iPad in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-135692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}