How to record your iPhone screen on a Windows PC

Updated 22 October 2026 · AirMirror Pro 3.2.1

The short answer: mirror your iPhone to AirMirror Pro over AirPlay and click Start Recording. You get an MP4 or MKV file of the iPhone's screen with its sound, encoded on your PC's graphics hardware and saved straight to your PC.

No capture card, no cable and no app on the iPhone. Recordings are free up to five minutes with a small watermark. Pro, $5.99 once, removes both.

Why record on the PC

The file lands on your PC, ready for your editor, and takes no space on the iPhone. You can pick the quality and the format, and record for as long as you need with Pro.

What you need

A Windows 10 (version 1809) or Windows 11 PC with AirMirror Pro, free from the Microsoft Store.
A GPU with Direct3D 11 video support. That covers almost any GPU from the last decade, integrated Intel and AMD graphics included. PCs without a hardware video encoder can still record, up to 1080p.
Your iPhone on the same Wi-Fi network as the PC.

Step by step

Open AirMirror Pro and click Start Receiver.
On the iPhone, open Control Center, tap Screen Mirroring and choose AirMirror Pro.
Choose View › Recording. The Audio mixer shows the iPhone's sound with a live meter. Leave Record ticked under iPhone to include it, and use its slider to set how loud it is in the recording.
To change the quality or format, click the gear button beside Start Recording. Quality is Low, Medium, High or Max: higher keeps more detail in fast motion and makes larger files, and Max records at up to 100 Mbps. Format is MP4, which opens almost anywhere, or MKV, which copes better with a recording that gets interrupted.
Click Start Recording. Files go to Videos › AirMirror Recordings, named by date and time, unless you choose another folder in the same settings.

Recording games at 60 fps

Games that run at 60 fps on the iPhone, like COD Mobile, Genshin Impact or Dragon Ball Legends, record at 60 fps with sound.

Steady 60 fps in File → Settings… → Mirroring shows each frame exactly on a screen refresh, so motion is even. It adds up to one refresh of delay, about 17 ms, and takes effect after a restart.
Passthrough recording (Pro) saves the video exactly as the iPhone sends it, without re-encoding it.

Sound and editing

Recording audio is saved as standard AAC at 48 kHz stereo, which Premiere Pro and other video editors import. It stays in sync for the whole recording, including after a pause in the iPhone's audio.

With Pro, tick Record under Microphone in the Audio mixer to add your voice. It goes on its own track after the iPhone's, so you can balance the two in an editor. Video players play only the first track, the iPhone's.

Upright or sideways

Recordings are always 16:9, even when you rotate your iPhone. While it is upright, the sides are black, or with Pro a soft blur of the iPhone's own picture: set Background in the recording settings.

Codecs

Recordings use H.264, which plays everywhere. With Pro you can choose HEVC or AV1 in the recording settings, for sharper fast motion at the same file size, where your graphics card supports them. Some Windows PCs need Microsoft's HEVC or AV1 Video Extension to play those files.

Screenshots

Press Ctrl+S, or the camera button in the Recording view, to save the current frame to Pictures › AirMirror Screenshots, at full stream resolution and with no letterbox bars.

Free and Pro

Free: recordings stop at five minutes and carry a small watermark. Mirroring itself has no limit.
Pro, $5.99 once: no time limit, no watermark, your microphone on its own track, a blurred background, HEVC and AV1, passthrough recording, and your iPhone's notifications on your PC. No subscription. You buy it inside the app, through the Microsoft Store.

Questions

Can I record my iPhone on a PC without a capture card?

Yes. The picture and sound come over AirPlay on your Wi-Fi network, so there is no capture card and no cable.

Does it record the sound?

Yes. Keep Record ticked under iPhone in the Audio mixer and the iPhone's sound goes into the file.

Is there a time limit?

Free recordings stop at five minutes. With Pro there is no limit.

My PC is older. Will it keep up?

Turn on Performance Mode at the top of File → Settings… → Mirroring. It mirrors at 720p and 30 fps on a steady cadence, which older PCs handle comfortably.

Get AirMirror Pro

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