iPhone101: Screen Recordings and Screen Shots – Setting Up, Creating, Taking and Sharing with Siri and Voiceover Accessibility | Blind Abilities | lystn

iPhone101: Screen Recordings and Screen Shots – Setting Up, Creating, Taking and Sharing with Siri and Voiceover Accessibility

Blind Abilities adds to the iPhone101 Series with an in depth review of how to create a screen recording in iOS using Voiceover. Pete Lane shows us how to retrieve the screen recording element from the Settings app and place it in the desired location in your control center, but that’s not all he covers in this jam-packed episode!

Additionally:

Shows us how to activate our microphone for use with the screen recording.
Demonstrates how to ask Siri to take a Screen Shot (a photo of our iOS screen(; share both The screenshot and the screen recording directly with a friend hands-free.
How to retrieve both from the Photos App.
takes a quick jaunt through the Blind Abilities App as he uses it to help demonstrate the screen recording process

Join Pete for this thorough demonstration of all of these features in this 12 minute podcast that is guaranteed to educate and entertain!

Now let’s lay out each procedure in a step-by-step format so it’s clear for everyone to follow:

Securing and placing the screen recording element in the control center:

We first need to have the screen recording element available in our control center. Here’s how we do it!

Flick to your settings app and perform a single finger double tap to open it.
Flick about halfway down the screen until you reach control center. Perform a single finger double tap to open it.
Flick down until you reach the Heading called: “Included Items.”
Flick to the right until you reach the item labeled Screen Recording. A single finger double tap will automatically place this item in your control center, but you can first pinpoint the precise location where you want this feature to reside when it is there.
To do this, perform a single finger double tap and hold on the button following the screen recording element, labelled: “Reorder Screen Recording, draggable button.” Then slide your finger up or down the screen until you hear voiceover say the location where you wish to place this element. Release your finger and this item will be placed in that slot in this list, as well as in a similar location in the Control Center. .
now we need to go to our control center. Place your finger at the very top of your screen. You should hear voiceover speak one of the elements in the status bar, I. E. Time, Wi-Fi, cellular Network, battery percentage, etc. Once there, slide your finger down the screen beginning in the upper right hand corner until you hear the second audible sound. Lift your finger and your control center will open. Alternatively, you can swipe up with three fingers from the bottom of your screen until you hear the second audible click to accomplish this.
Flick through the various items in the control center until you reach the screen recording element. Remember, it will be in the same place here as it was on the list in the Settings App.

Note: Be prepared to decide on what you will want to record using the Screen Recording feature, as our next step will be to start the recording. Also, you may wish to turn on Do Not Disturb in order to avoid unwanted sounds while in screen recording mode. You can ask Siri to do this, and see our previous iPhone 101 episode on Do Not Disturb for more information.

Making a Screen Recording:

Now that we have our Screen Recording element in the Control Center, we are now able to begin recording. To do this:

1Perform a single-finger double-tap on the Screen Recording element. Voiceover will count down 3-2-1, at which point the recording will begin.
To stop recording, merely return to the Control Center and do a single-finger double-tap to stop.

How to activate your microphone with Screen Recording:

Go to the Screen Recording element in the Control Center.
1. Flick up with one finger and you will hear two options.
1. Perform a single-finger double-tap on “Open Controls”.
1. Single finger double-tap to select this.
You will be presented a list of options.
1. Flick right until you reach “microphone”. This will be in the off or on position. If off,
  1. single-finger double-tap to toggle it on. Now all sounds will be recorded, including your voice and other sounds within reach of the microphone.
You can do a single-finger double-tap to begin recording, or exit the Control Center by sliding one finger up from the bottom of your screen until you hear the second audible click. If your iPhone has a Home button, press it once to exit.

How to ask Siri to take and Share a Screen Shot and Screen Recording:

While a Screen recording is a recording of all audio and video occurring on your phone, a Screen Shot is merely a still photo, or snap-shot of a single screen on your phone. It’s easy and fast to grab one.

Say “Hey Siri, take a Screen Shot.” Siri will take a photo of whatever screen you are on. You may also press and hold your Home button and say the same thing. You may hear a clicking sound like a camera shutter as this happens.
Ask Siri to share the image. Merely ask Siri to share with the person by name. You can shorten this process to a singled command by asking Siri to send a Screen Shot to (name).

Note: since screen shots and recordings are visual in nature, you may wish to turn off your screen curtain before beginning the process so recipients with usable vision are able to view the image. You can do this by performing a 3-finger triple-tap.

Retrieving Screen Shots and Recordings From your Photos App:

Screen shots and recordings are photos and videos and are therefore deposited into your Photos App. To retrieve them, do the following:

Flick to the Photos App on your Home screen, or ask Siri to open Photos App.
Single-finger double-tap to open it.
Flick down to the bottom of the opening screen and perform a single-finger double-tap on the Tab labeled “Albums”. You may use a 4-finger single-tap toward the bottom of the screen in lieu of flicking multiple times.
From the top of this screen, flick right and go down to the button labeled “Recent”. Single-finger double-tap to open.
Flick twice and do a single-finger double-tap on the button labeled “Select”.
Flick down until you locate your desired image. . You may choose to swipe up with three fingers in lieu of flicking multiple times to move down your Recent list. These are labeled by “Screen Shot” or “Screen Recording” respectively.
Perform a single-finger double-tap to select the item.
You may now view the item, delete it or share it by selecting the Share button on the screen.

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