How to use the Samsung screen recorder

Whether you want to assist a developer in diagnosing a problem that you are facing, or you are showing someone how to perform a certain task on the phone, or recording a gameplay, a screen recorder will be a useful tool. Many phone makers include a screen recorder in their devices, and despite the availability of many third-party screen recorders in the Play Store, using the built-in screen recorder may be the only recorder you need since it is already available on your phone and can include what is desired to make the job done with the addition of the ability to capture internal audio of more apps compared to third-party choices if internal audio recording is important to you.

In this post, I will show you how to use the screen recorder available specifically on Samsung Galaxy phones running the full One UI. Please note that this feature is not included in the One UI Core version.

Starting and Configuring the Screen Recorder Settings

To launch the screen recorder, follow these steps:

1. Open Quick Settings. Reaching Quick Settings can be done in more than one way. You can focus on one of the status bar items at the top of the screen, like the Wi-Fi signal or battery information, then double-tap and hold. After that, without lifting your finger, slide down to open the notification shade. When you are in the notification shade, swipe down with two fingers. Another way to reach Quick Settings is by using the function in the screen reader to open Quick Settings, which can also be assigned to a gesture. If you are on the home screen, you can usually swipe down with two fingers to open the notification shade, then swipe again with two fingers to open Quick Settings.

2. When you are in the Quick Settings panel, search for “Screen Recorder.”

You should find two items next to each other with the same name. The first one is the screen recorder toggle that starts and stops the recording, and the other one is to open settings related to the recorder.

3. Double-tap the one that says “Screen Recorder, Off” to switch it to On.

4. Here you will see a dialog asking if you want to start the recording. It will include information that the screen recorder will have access to what is displayed or played on your phone, including personal stuff like passwords. You also have some settings that you can change, including:

•The source of audio recording, whether it is the microphone only, media which is the internal audio of the device, both, or no sound at all. Note that you cannot customize which microphone is used or the type of recording (stereo or mono).

•Show taps and touches toggle to have a visual indication of where you are touching the screen during the recording or not.

5. When you are ready to start, tap the “Start Recording” button. If you are using the screen recorder for the first time and you are asked for a specific permission, act accordingly.

To configure more screen recorder settings, you can either long press the “screen recorder” toggle, or tap the “Screen Recorder” in Quick Settings, which doesn’t end with the state of the recording, or go to Settings and search for the screen recorder by tapping Search and typing the first letters of “recorder,” for example. Results should start to appear above the keyboard, including the “Screenshots and Recorder Settings” section.

There, you can find more settings like the video quality of the recording, the selfie video size slider if you are using the front camera while recording, (This feature needs camera permission to work), and the location where the videos are saved.

Ending the Recording:

While you are recording, you will have an item in your notification shade that reads, “Tap here to stop recording.” Activating it will end the recording. You can also tap the “Screen Recorder” toggle to stop the recording. Afterwards, you should receive a notification indicating that the video is saved, with the option to tap the notification to play the video or expand it to find additional options like delete and share.

Additionally, you can go to the location specified for saving the recordings to view them.

Notes:

1. It is possible to add the screen recorder toggle to the options that appear in the notification shade by using the “Edit Buttons” option found when tapping the “More options” while in Quick Settings. If you are using a recent version of One UI, you can use actions to move the buttons to the desired location.

2. Some names and settings may vary between different phone models and Android versions.

3. Even when you enable media as a source for recording, it might not capture all the audio played on the phone, and it cannot record the screen reader sound if it is using the accessibility channel.

4. Before concluding that your phone’s software doesn’t include a built-in screen recorder, you should ensure that the recorder is not available in any Quick Settings page. The items may be spread across multiple pages. Moreover, even if you cannot find it, you should tap “More options” and then “Edit buttons” to check if it is available as an option in the Quick Settings panel, as it may not be added by default despite being a feature on your device.