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To screen record on Mac, press ⌘ Shift 5, choose the entire screen, a window or a portion, then click Record. Sound isn't set up for you, so this guide shows how to add it, trim the video and send it without a huge file.
Updated October 29, 2026 · Verified on macOS 27 · 9 min read
Press ⌘ Shift 5. A toolbar appears at the bottom of the screen. The buttons on the left take still images, and the ones on the right record a video of your screen.
Click Record on the right side of the toolbar. With the timer from Options, recording starts after 5 or 10 seconds, enough time to set up what you want to show.
To stop, click the Stop Screen Recording button that appears in the menu bar at the top of the screen. From the keyboard, ⌘ Control Esc does the same thing. Esc on its own, before recording starts, cancels everything.
To your desktop, as a .mov file with a name like “Screen Recording 2026-10-29 at 14.05.12”. A thumbnail shows up in the bottom-right corner for a few seconds first. While it's there, the file hasn't been written yet. To use another folder, go to Options and pick one under Save to.
If you need a still image instead of a video, every shortcut is in our guide on how to take a screenshot on Mac.
The Options menu in the ⌘ Shift 5 toolbar holds everything that changes how the video looks and sounds. Open it before you screen record on Mac for someone else, because sound and click circles can't be added once the file exists.
For a tutorial, a good default is Record Selected Window with Microphone and Show Mouse Clicks turned on. Your voice explains, the circles show where you click, and nothing outside the window gets in.
People often watch a screen recording small, in an email or on a phone. Two minutes of preparation make it far easier to follow than any amount of editing.
Before you screen record on Mac for real, do one dry run. The second take is almost always the one you keep, and the 5 second timer gives you time to get your hands in place.
This is the question that comes up most, and for good reason. When you screen record on Mac, sound isn't captured by default. You set it in the Options menu of the ⌘ Shift 5 toolbar, before you start.
The two can be combined. For a demo, check only the microphone, since notification sounds have no place in the video. To keep the music in a presentation, add system audio.
What many people call internal audio is the Include System Audio option. With it checked, whatever the Mac plays ends up in the recording, whether that's a video, an app's sounds or the people on a call. Add Microphone on top if you also want to speak over it.
Recording apps, Eyno Show included, ask for permission the first time you use them. You'll find it in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Screen & System Audio Recording. Turn the app on there, then quit and reopen it.
QuickTime Player, installed on every Mac, takes you to the same place. File > New Screen Recording opens the ⌘ Shift 5 toolbar. Where QuickTime earns its keep is after you record. It opens the video, shortens it, then exports it at a more reasonable size.
In practice, start with the shortcut when you want to screen record on Mac quickly, and open the file in QuickTime when it needs tidying up. QuickTime also records the screen of an iPhone plugged into the Mac, as shown further down.
The first seconds almost always show the toolbar, and the last ones show the pointer heading for the stop button. There are two ways to remove them without editing software.
Click the thumbnail that appears right after you stop, then the trim button. Drag the yellow edges of the strip to the real start and the real end, then confirm.
Open the video, then choose Edit > Trim…. It works the same way, with the yellow edges. Split Clip cuts the video in two at the playhead, which is how you remove a passage from the middle.
For a mobile app, connect the iPhone to the Mac with its cable and unlock it. In QuickTime, choose File > New Movie Recording. Next to the red button, the small arrow opens the list of cameras. Pick the iPhone. Its screen appears live in the window, and the red button starts recording the phone's screen at full resolution.
Taps aren't drawn on screen, so say out loud where you're tapping.
To screen record on MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, everything above works the same. The shortcut is still ⌘ Shift 5, with ⌘ on both sides of the space bar, Shift above fn and Control, and 5 on the number row.
The built-in mic also picks up typing and the fan. For a cleaner voice, AirPods or a headset mic make a real difference, and you choose them from the same Microphone list.
On a Retina laptop screen, recording everything also gives you the heaviest files. Record Selected Window keeps the video smaller from the start.
When you screen record on Mac, the video is captured at your screen's resolution. On a Retina display, 1 minute of full-screen video easily weighs tens of MB, more than the 25 MB Gmail accepts as an attachment.
For anything longer than a few minutes, a share link from iCloud Drive or another storage service keeps your recipient's inbox from choking on it.
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The Mac's tool records the screen exactly as it is. To present a product or train a client, you're missing what an editor would add afterward: zooms on what matters, a background, a clean voice and subtitles. Eyno Show records your Mac screen and prepares that edit while you record.
On the audio side, Show isolates your voice from room noise, levels the volume and shortens silences. Subtitles are transcribed on the Mac itself, without uploading the video to a server, then translated if needed and exported as SRT or VTT for YouTube.
It also adds intro and outro title cards with your logo, and annotations such as arrows, boxes, numbered steps and blurred areas. The keyboard shortcuts you press can appear on screen, while ordinary typing stays hidden by default.
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Press ⌘ Shift 5, open Options and check Include System Audio before you start. That captures the sound coming out of the Mac. Check Microphone as well if you want your voice on top. Without either, a screen recording on Mac is silent.
You don't need Control Center to record your screen. Press ⌘ Shift 5 from any app, open the Screenshot app in Applications > Utilities, or choose File > New Screen Recording in QuickTime Player. All three open the same toolbar.
Include System Audio covers the sound of a video call, so the usual settings apply. Choose Record Selected Window on the call, check Microphone for your voice and Include System Audio for the other person. Let everyone on the call know you're recording before you start.
The Mac doesn't set a maximum length. The recording keeps going as long as there's space left on the disk. For a long full-screen session, check your free space before you start.
Protected movies, like the ones on Netflix or in the TV app, are blacked out by the Mac in every recording. The rest of the screen is recorded normally.
To show a bug to a coworker, ⌘ Shift 5 and a minute of video are enough. To present a product, train a client or publish a tutorial, Eyno Show saves you the editing time. The zooms on your clicks and the background are in place as soon as you stop recording, and subtitles are transcribed on the Mac. The 7-day trial needs no card and opens the seven other apps too, and the Eyno subscription costs €5.99 a month or €59.90 a year for all eight. You can first try Show in the demo Mac on the home page without installing anything.