Use your voice to ask Siri to begin and cease a screen-recording session in your iPhone or iPad hands-free with out utilizing the devoted Management Middle toggle.
- What’s occurring? Apple’s digital assistant on iOS 16.5 and iPad 16.5 can begin and cease the Display screen Recording function with easy voice instructions.
- Why care? You can begin a display recording session along with your voice to keep away from the Management Middle toggle initially showing in your screencast.
- What to do? Replace your iPhone and iPad to make use of the function.
In iOS 16.5, Siri can begin and cease Display screen Recording
It’s driving me loopy that every one my iPhone display recordings start and finish with the Management Middle. I’ve to go to Photographs and use the trimming function to chop off these pointless components earlier than sharing the video. However that’s the state of issues when the Display screen Recording toggle is just obtainable within the Management Middle.
Nevertheless, in iOS 16.5 and iPadOS 16.5, you possibly can ask Siri to begin and cease recording a video of no matter is displayed on the display utilizing simply your voice.
You have to be very explicit, although:
- “Hey Siri, begin display recording.”
- “Hey Siri, cease display recording.”
Earlier than iOS 16.5, asking Siri to begin a display recording returned internet outcomes.
You have to be particular
As famous by 9to5Mac, variations of those instructions don’t work, so keep in mind to make use of these particular voice prompts to begin and cease recording your machine’s display hands-free. Additionally, these new Siri instructions don’t work in offline mode.
With a display recording began, you possibly can cease your session at any time utilizing both the Management Middle toggle or the above voice command. Use the latter to keep away from the Management Middle interface ruining the very finish of your video.
As a reminder, you possibly can already ask Siri to take screenshots.
Siri responses on display recordings
The function feels a bit unfinished within the first beta of iOS 16.5 as a result of your display recording will briefly present the Siri immediate firstly and finish.
To stop this from occurring, flip off the onscreen transcript of voice instructions and Siri responses in Settings → Siri & Search → Siri Responses, then slide the All the time Present Siri Captions and All the time Present Speech toggles to OFF.
Ideally, Apple would mechanically take away these prompts from the completed video when utilizing Siri to begin and cease a screen-recording session.
What a couple of Display screen Recording motion in Shortcuts?
In case you’re questioning, the Shortcuts app on iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5 and macOS Ventura 13.4 nonetheless doesn’t have a Display screen Recording motion that may allow you to create automation scripts to programmatically seize a display recording.
What else is new in iOS 16.5?
iOS 16.5 consists of one other noteworthy addition—a brand new Sports activities tab within the Information app. With tvOS 16.5, Apple will deliver the flexibility to concurrently watch 4 concurrent sports activities streams on the Apple TV, a function which may additionally seem in iPadOS 16.5.
Within the coming weeks, nonetheless, further new options may floor as Apple continues testing iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5, tvOS 16.5, watchOS 9.5 and macOS Ventura 13.4 with its registered builders and public testers.
iOS 17 is looming on the horizon
iOS 16.5 marks the final main feature-focused replace to iOS 16. In June, Apple will maintain its developers-focused occasion, WWDC, to preview iOS 17, iPadOS 17, tvOS 17, watchOS 10 and macOS 14.0. Based on Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, iOS 17 must be mild on new options and as an alternative deal with stability and reliability.
Upkeep updates for iOS 16 with vital bug fixes will proceed even after iOS 17 launches publicly within the fall. For instance, Apple earlier this month launched iOS 15.7.4, iPadOS 15.7.4, macOS Large Sur 11.7.5 and macOS Monterey 12.6.4 updates with fixes for a bunch of vulnerabilities on older iPhones, iPads and Macs.
