This article explains how to record your iPad screen on your Mac using the free QuickTime Player app that comes with your Mac. This information applies to Macs running macOS Yosemite or later. It also includes information about inexpensive ways to use Windows to record your iPad screen.

Screencasting is a great way to create presentations, enhance classroom lessons, create instructional videos, or review apps and games on YouTube. If you have a Mac, you don’t need expensive software to get started.

Your Mac already has all the tools you need to capture your iPad screen and record video of it. You can use the iPad’s audio for the finished recording, which is handy if you want to record a voiceover later. You can also skip that and record yourself live using your Mac’s internal microphone.

Connect the iPad to the Mac computer. Use the connector that came with the tablet.