How to Record Your Screen on Any Phone

This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to record screens on Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy smartphones. It explains the necessary settings and menu navigation required to capture video content on these devices.
Why it matters
As mobile content creation grows, users frequently require accessible instructions for utilizing built-in hardware features for tutorials and media capture.
Perhaps you’re starting up a YouTube channel of smartphone tutorials. Or it could be that you want to capture evidence of a new high score in a mobile game—not just a screenshot of it, but the actual act of you achieving it.
For these reasons and more, screen recordings are useful, and they’re not difficult to capture no matter what the make and model of your handset. You’ll find instructions below for the two most well-known Android phone brands, and the iPhone.
Record Your Screen on a Google Pixel
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