Tech media outlet 9to5Mac published a blog post today (September 6), reporting that in the latest iOS 26 Beta update, Apple has upgraded the screen recording experience. For the first time, iPhones can now record the screen at the device’s native full resolution, solving the long-standing issue of compression and blurriness.
According to the report cited by IT Home, Apple first introduced screen recording in iOS 11. However, resolution was capped at a maximum of 1920 pixels in either height or width, meaning that the actual recordings on modern iPhones never matched the screen’s true clarity.
For example, before the upgrade, screen recording resolution on the iPhone 16 Pro Max was limited to 884×1920—about two-thirds of the device’s full resolution.
In the latest iOS 26 Beta, this has been raised to 1320×2868, which fully matches the phone’s actual display resolution. Comparisons show that recordings are now much sharper, with clearer text and crisper image edges, completely eliminating the previous blurriness.
Surprisingly, despite the resolution jump, file sizes have not grown significantly. Test results show that a 12-second screen recording of identical content was 24.2 MB in iOS 26 Beta 6—only 5.3 MB larger than the 18.9 MB size in Beta 1.
In addition to the resolution upgrade, iOS 26 also introduces several new features for screenshots and screen recording, including HDR recording support, the ability to disable CarPlay screenshots, and the new Visual Lookup feature.
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