How Do I Play Videos On My Phone

Record videos with your iPhone camera

Apply Camera to record videos and QuickTake videos on your iPhone. Learn how to alter modes to accept Cinematic, slow-movement, and fourth dimension-lapse videos.

Tape a video

Open Camera, then select Video mode.
Tap the Record button or press either book button to kickoff recording. While recording, you can do the following:
- Press the white Shutter button to snap a still photo.
- Pinch the screen to zoom in and out.
- For a more precise zoom on models with Dual and Triple camera systems, touch and agree 1x, then drag the slider to the left.
Tap the Record button or press either volume push button to end recording.

Past default, video records at xxx frames per second (fps). Depending on your model, you can cull other frame rates and video resolution settings in Settings > Photographic camera > Tape Video. Faster frame rates and higher resolutions result in larger video files.

Tape a QuickTake video

On iPhone XSouthward, iPhone TenR, and later, you tin can record a QuickTake video. A QuickTake video is a video you record in Photo style. While you tape a QuickTake video, you tin can move the Record button into the lock position and keep taking still photos.

Open Photographic camera in Photo manner, and then bear upon and hold the Shutter button to start recording a QuickTake video.
Slide the Shutter push button to the right and let go over the lock for easily-complimentary recording.
- Both the Record and Shutter buttons appear below the frame—tap the Shutter button to accept a still photo while recording.
- Swipe up to zoom in on your subject, or if y'all're recording hands-free, you can pinch out on the screen to zoom in.
Tap the Record push to end recording.

Tip: Printing and concur the volume up or volume downwardly button to start recording a QuickTake video in Photo manner.

Tap the thumbnail to view the QuickTake video in the Photos app.

Record in Cinematic style

Cinematic mode applies a depth-of-field issue that keeps the subject of your video sharp while creating a beautifully blurred foreground and groundwork. iPhone automatically identifies the subject of the video and keeps information technology in focus throughout the recording; if a new discipline is identified, iPhone automatically transitions the point of focus. You can as well manually suit the point of focus while you lot record, or change it later in the Photos app. Cinematic manner is bachelor on all iPhone thirteen models.

Open Camera, then select Cinematic way.

On iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, you can tap 1x before recording to zoom in.

To arrange the depth-of-field effect, tap , so drag the slider left or right earlier recording.
Tap the Record button or press either volume button to beginning recording.
- A xanthous frame on the screen indicates the person in focus; a gray frame indicates a person is detected, simply not in focus. Tap the gray box to change the focus; tap over again to lock the focus on that person.
- If there isn't a person in the video, tap anywhere on the screen to ready the focus point.
- Touch and agree the screen to lock the focus at a single distance.
Tap the Record push or press either book button to stop recording.

After y'all record a video in Cinematic mode, you tin can remove or alter the upshot. See Edit Cinematic mode videos on your iPhone.

Record a slow-motility video

When you record a video in Slo-mo style, your video records every bit normal and you run across the boring-motility consequence when y'all play it back. You tin can also edit your video so that the slow-motion action starts and stops at a specific fourth dimension.

Open Camera, then select Slo-mo manner.

On iPhone xi models, iPhone 12 models, and iPhone 13 models, y'all can tap to record in Slo-mo way with the front camera.
Tap the Record button or press either volume button to start recording.

You tin can tap the Shutter push to take a still photograph while recording.
Tap the Record button or printing either volume push to stop recording.

To set a portion of the video to play in slow motion and the balance at regular speed, tap the video thumbnail, then tap Edit. Slide the vertical confined below the frame viewer to ascertain the section y'all want to play back in tiresome motility.

Depending on your model, you tin modify the ho-hum motion frame rate and resolution. To change slow-motion recording settings, go to Settings > Photographic camera > Tape Slo-mo.

Record a time-lapse video

Capture footage at selected intervals to create a fourth dimension‑lapse video of an experience over a flow of time—such equally a setting sun or traffic flowing.

Open Camera, so select Fourth dimension-lapse mode.
Gear up your iPhone where you want to capture a scene in motion.
Tap the Record button to first recording; tap information technology again to stop recording.

Tip: On iPhone 12 models and later, use a tripod to capture time-lapse videos with more detail and brightness when recording in depression-light situations.