How to Record Screen on Samsung Galaxy

This wikiHow teaches you how to record the screen on your Samsung Galaxy phone or tablet using Mobizen or Samsung Game Tops.

Table of Contents

Record screen with Mobizen

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Download Mobizen from Play Store. Here’s how to get this free app:

Open Play Store

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Type mobizen in the search bar.
Click on Mobizen Screen Recorder – Record, Capture, Edit . The app has an orange icon with a white “m” inside.
Click INSTALL (install) and accept the permissions if necessary. The application will be installed.

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Open Mobizen on Galaxy. At this point, a red and white “m” icon will appear in the App Drawer app drawer. Click to open the application.

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Click Welcome . This orange button will appear on the boot screen.

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Follow the on-screen instructions to adjust the settings. After you complete the instructions, a floating “m” icon will appear on the right side of the screen each time the application runs.

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Tap the letter “m” icon. The Mobizen menu will appear.

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Tap the record button with the red and white camera icon at the top of the menu. A confirmation message will appear letting you know that the content on the screen will be recorded.

If this is your first time using Mobizen, you need to tap ALLOW to give the app permission to record and save to your Galaxy device. Then a confirmation message will appear.

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Click START NOW . After a few seconds of counting down, Mobizen will start recording the screen.

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Stop recording. After recording, click on the Mobizen icon again, then press the stop button (square). A confirmation message will appear asking what you want to do.

You can press the pause button if you want to continue recording later (starting from the time it stopped).

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Click WATCH (Review). The video will open.

If you don’t want to watch the video now, click the CLOSE button.
If you want to save the video you just recorded, press DELETE .

Record gameplay with Samsung Game Tops

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Enable Game Tops on your Galaxy device. If you want to record video games played by yourself, you need to enable the Game Tops tool by:

Open the Settings section.
Scroll down and tap Advanced Features .
Tap Games .
Swipe the “Game Launcher” switch to the On position

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Swipe the “Game Tops” switch to the On position

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Open Game Launcher on Galaxy. The app has an icon of three different colored circles with an X inside, which you’ll find in the App Drawer.

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Begin the game. Games installed on Samsung Galaxy will show up in the main Game Launcher menu. Click on any game to launch it.

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Swipe up on the screen. Game Launcher icons will appear at the bottom.

If playing the game in widescreen mode, you need to swipe from the right side of the screen.

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Tap the game engine icon. The game engine icon has a + and four dots that look like the D key and buttons on a gamepad. This is the first card at the bottom of the screen.

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Click Record . This card has a video camera icon and is located in the lower right corner of the Game Tops window. The game will begin to be recorded.

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Replay the game. Game Tops will record the screen until you stop recording.

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Swipe up from the bottom of the screen. A stop button will appear at the bottom of the screen.

If you’re playing in widescreen mode, swipe in from the right across the screen.

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Click the Stop icon. The Stop button has a circle icon with a square inside, located in the lower left corner of the screen.

To watch the video again, you need to open the Gallery , tap the folder named after the game, then tap the video. You can also watch videos in the Video Launcher app by tapping the profile icon at the top and selecting Videos Recorded .

Steps

Record screen with Mobizen

Record gameplay with Samsung Game Tops

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