How To Screen Record On Apple IPhone 12 Pro Max

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How to record the screen on an Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max

Last update: December 29, 2025 by DevicesFAQ.com Editorial Team

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

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

Table of Contents:

Add screen recording button to control center
Start screen recording
Turn microphone on/off
Stop screen recording
Where are screen recordings saved on the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max?
User questions and problems

Estimated time: 2 minutes.

1- First step:

First, check if screen recording is enabled on your iPhone 12 Pro Max (if it is, you can skip to step 6).To check, open Control Center by swiping down from the top right corner, as shown in the image below.

2- Second step:

In the iPhone 12 Pro Max control center, look for the screen recording icon; it's a white dot inside a circle, as you can see in the image below.

3- Third step:

If you cannot find this icon, you must add it. To do so, tap the "+" add icon that appears in the upper left corner.

4- Fourth step:

At the bottom of the screen appears the "Add a control" button, tap it to add the screen recording button to your Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max.

5- Fifth step:

Find the control called "Screen Recording" and tap it to add it to the Control Center. Once added, you can change its position by tapping and dragging it to the desired location.When you're finished editing, you can tap any empty space on the screen to exit.

Add screen recording button to control center

6- Sixth step:

If you want to record a video in your Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max 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 Max go to the Photos application where you will find it in the last position.

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In your iPhone 12 Pro Max you can store the screen recordings in video thanks to its internal 128 GB / 256 GB / 512 GB memory. Please note that recordings can take up a lot of space, if you don't have enough storage space the recording will stop.

Where are screen recordings saved on the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max?

All the screen recordings made on an Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max 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 iPhone 12 Pro Max, it is an icon of a kind of flower with each petal of a different color.

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 iPhone 12 Pro Max.