How to Record Your Screen on Android

Android has a built-in screen recorder in Quick Settings. You will add the tile if it is missing, start a recording, stop it, and find the video.

Open Quick Settings

Swipe down from the top of the screen twice to expand the full Quick Settings panel.

Tap Screen record

Find the Screen record tile and tap it. If it is not there, tap the pencil (edit) button at the bottom of the panel, drag Screen record from the list of available tiles up into the active tiles, then go back.

Choose what to capture

A dialog asks what to record. Turn on Record audio and pick Microphone, Device audio, or Device audio and microphone. Turn on Show touches on screen if you want taps to appear as dots in the video. On Android 14 and later you can also choose to record a single app instead of the entire screen.

Tap Start

Tap Start. A three-second countdown appears, then recording begins and a red indicator shows in the status bar.

Stop the recording

Swipe down from the top of the screen and tap Stop in the screen recorder notification, or tap the red indicator in the status bar. The video is saved automatically.

Find the video

Open Google Photos and look under Library, or open the Files app and go to Movies. Pixel phones keep recordings in a Screen recordings folder inside Movies. Videos are saved as MP4 files and can be shared like any other video.

On Samsung phones. The tile is called Screen recorder. Tapping it asks for a sound setting (No sound, Media sounds, or Media sounds and mic) and then a floating toolbar appears with a Stop button. Recordings land in the Screen recordings album in Gallery.

Some apps record as black. Streaming, banking, and other apps that use DRM or block screenshots produce a black rectangle in the recording. That is enforced by the app and cannot be turned off from the recorder.