How to Screen Record on OPPO Phone

Want to capture your screen activity—whether it’s a tutorial, a game, or an app walkthrough? OPPO’s built-in screen recording feature makes it easy to record everything happening on your display, complete with sound and touchpoint visuals. This guide will walk you through the steps to start, customize, and save screen recordings on OPPO smartphones running ColorOS 7.0 and above.

How to enable screen recording

Enable screen recording via Control Center

Swipe down from the top of the screen to open Control Center > then tap [Screen recording] and a screen recording toolbar will appear. 

• To start recording: Tap the [ Record] button. When you are done recording > tap the [Stop] icon on the screen, and the following notification "The screen recording file has been saved," will appear in the notification center > tap the notification to view your video or go to your [Photos] to check your screen recording file. 

Enable screen recording via Smart Sidebar

Swipe the white vertical line from right to left to see Smart Sidebar and tap [Screen recording], and a screen recording toolbar will appear. To start recording, tap the [ Record] button.

Tips:

1. Screen recording will automatically stop when the screen is turned off. The phone is powered off or after 30 minutes.

2. If the Smart Sidebar is not on your screen, see OPPO Smart Sidebar. 

Note:

• Each screen recording is limited to a maximum of 30 minutes. 
  

• The sound through Screen Recording is unavailable when another channel or application uses the microphone feature. This explains why there's no sound from screen recording during a video call. You can only use the voice and recording from your microphone one channel or application at a time.

Edit screen recording

Go to [Photos] > [Albums] and look for the [Video] folder. Choose the screen recording that you’ve just taken, tap [Edit], and you can choose to crop, add filters or special effects, soundtrack, text, and watermark on the video.

Record with sound

Try the following steps below to screen record with sound.

• For ColorOS 12 and above: Go to [Settings] > [System settings]/ [Additional settings] /[ Accessibility&convenience] > [Screen recording] > choose if you want to record the system sound or microphone sound.

• For ColorOS 7.0 to 11.1: Go to [Settings] > [Convenience tool]/ [Additional settings] > [Screen recording] and choose if you want to record the system sound or microphone sound.

Adjust video resolution

Depending on the ColorOS version, you can adjust your screen recording video resolution to low, medium, high, or even customize it to your preference.

• For ColorOS 12 and above: Go to [Settings] > [System settings]/ [Additional settings] /[ Accessibility&convenience] > [Screen recording] > tap on [Definition] and then choose your desired video resolution.
  

• For ColorOS 7.0 to 11.1: Go to [Settings] > [Convenience tool]/ [Additional Settings] > [Screen recording] > [Video Resolution] and choose the preferred resolution.

Record with touchpoints

• For ColorOS 12 and above: Go to [Settings] > [System settings] / [Additional settings] /[ Accessibility&convenience]> [Screen recording] > enable the [Show screen touches].

• For ColorOS 7 to 11.1: Go to [Settings] > [Convenience tool] /[Additional Settings]> [Screen recording] and turn on [Show screen touches].

* Pictures, settings, and paths might differ from those of your phone, but these won't affect the description in this article