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A little late to the party, but hopefully these are useful if anyone sees them:

- If you need to make a quick screen recording video, open QuickTime Player. There’s an option to record the screen in the menu.

- (This one’s been extremely useful to me, and hardly anyone seems to know about it!) — If you need to provide tech support to another macOS user, open iMessage on your Mac, and start a conversation with the other person’s Apple ID. Click the dropdown caret beside their name in the recipient list, and click “Ask to share screen”. A VNC request will be sent straight to their Mac (with built-in microphone audio, so you can chat to them), plus options to control their computer remotely.



I found out lately that you can even record the screen of a brand new iOS device using QuickTime when plugged via USB.

You can easily record the initial setup that way, which helped immensely with users working from home getting phone upgrades during the pandemic.


I didn’t know about that, thanks for the tip!




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