{"id":52713,"date":"2026-07-24T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52713"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:07:00","slug":"recording-the-iphone-screen-with-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/24\/recording-the-iphone-screen-with-a-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording the iPhone Screen With a Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/max-one-weird-thing\/\">Marcin Wichary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/max-one-weird-thing\/\">\n<p>This instruction is a fever dream of three weird things in sequence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What on earth is &ldquo;QuickTime&rdquo;?<\/li>\n<li>I am recording with a <em>player<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>Why can&rsquo;t I choose the option [&ldquo;New Screen Recording&rdquo;] that describes exactly what I want to do?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s noticing this kind of complexity, places where an easy way was chosen, design debt accumulated, and things got simply too weird. Apple allowed <em>three<\/em> weird things to accumulate here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It makes sense in terms of the history and how the technology works, but from a clean slate one might expect this functionality to be in the Screenshot app, Screen Sharing, iPhone Mirroring, or perhaps even Finder.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/23\/quicktime-player-creates-mov-files\/\">QuickTime Player Creates .mov Files<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcin Wichary: This instruction is a fever dream of three weird things in sequence: What on earth is &ldquo;QuickTime&rdquo;? I am recording with a player? Why can&rsquo;t I choose the option [&ldquo;New Screen Recording&rdquo;] that describes exactly what I want to do? [&#8230;] It&rsquo;s noticing this kind of complexity, places where an easy way was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-07-24T18:07:03Z","apple_news_api_id":"45ae9b54-2674-4cc1-8965-84045e7c25e3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-07-24T18:07:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ARa6bVCZ0TMGJZYQEXnwl4w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,31,2887,30,2742,271,1893,97],"class_list":["post-52713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-ios","tag-ios-27","tag-mac","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-quicktime","tag-screen-recording","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52714,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713\/revisions\/52714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}