Record screen with audio & voice-over:
Ever feel like making a quick video of what you’re watching on your phone along with a running commentary?
You can do that on the iPhone with Screen Recording which records what’s happening on the display with audio and also lets you record a voice-over or add live sound effects.
This tool can be found in Control Center by swiping down from the top right corner of your display. The icon looks like a solid circle with a border.
In case you can’t see it here, go to Settings > Control Center and scroll down. Just tap on the plus sign next to Screen Recording.
To start recording something, activate Do Not Disturb or Airplane Mode to prevent notifications from messing with your video.
Then pull down Control Center and tap the screen recording icon. It will start pulsing when launched and the time displayed on the upper left side will be highlighted.
You can tap on the time to stop recording or go back to Control Center and hit the Screen Recording icon to halt it.
If you want to record a voice-over too, long-press this icon and a new window to switch the Microphone on will pop up.
All the videos shot through the screen recording features can be sent straight to Photos or Instagram.
Self-destruct after 10 forced attempts:
You can always keep track of the physical location of your iPhone with Apple’s Find My app (originally called Find My iPhone) which lets you locate your device.
So what do we mean by protect your device from thieves? We’re talking about protecting your sensitive information from being accessible by anyone who might want to unlock your phone and turn off the Find My app without your permission, or simply steal your data.
It’s always good to keep a backup for important files and folders before you activate this mode.
What it does is, it erases all the information stored on your iPhone if someone makes multiple attempts to unlock it.
To enable this go to Settings > Face ID & Passcode > Erase Data.
Once you switch on this feature, all the data on your iPhone will be completely wiped out if there are 10 failed attempts to unlock the handset.
Isn’t it possible that some harmless kid might be trying to unlock your phone to no avail? You wouldn’t want to lose all your data because of this, right?
Well, the passcode function is disabled for 1 minute after 6 wrong tries, for 5 minutes after the 7th unsuccessful attempt and so on.
The amount of timeout between failed unlock attempts is gradually increased until the 10th and last try is allowed.
So unless you think a toddler is going to spend hours persevering at the task of failing to force open your iPhone, you have nothing to worry about.
Only someone with bad intentions is likely to persist for that long.