Connect your iPhone or iPad to your Mac with a cable and pick it in the Tella Mac app’s screen menu to record its screen, with your camera and microphone, like any other screen. AirPlay mirroring records as a black rectangle.
To record an iPhone or iPad demo, connect your iPhone to your Mac with a cable, open the screen menu in the Tella Mac app and pick your iPhone. Tella records the phone’s screen like any other screen, with your camera and microphone. It works with iPads too.
Wireless screen mirroring (AirPlay from your iPhone to your Mac) doesn’t work for recording on recent versions of macOS. The mirrored iPhone content shows up as a black rectangle in any screen recording. Apple blocks it at the system level, in every recording app, even though it looks fine on your Mac’s screen while you record. Use a cable instead.
You need the Tella Mac app, your iPhone or iPad, and a cable to connect it to your Mac.
Connect your iPhone to your Mac with a cable and unlock it
In the Tella Mac app, click the screen button and choose your iPhone under Displays. If it isn’t listed, click Add iPhone
Follow the steps Tella shows: the first time, tap Trust on your iPhone, then disconnect and reconnect the cable when asked
When Tella shows iPhone video available, click OK
Record as usual. Your camera and microphone record alongside the phone’s screen
If you don’t see Add iPhone, update the Tella Mac app to the latest version.To go back to recording your Mac, open the screen button again and pick a display or window.
After recording, use Tella’s editor to trim the beginning and end, pick a layout that fits the device’s screen, and crop a QuickTime window recording down to just the device.To write or draw on your iPad and show only your handwriting next to you, see Draw on your iPad in a screen recording.
