Taking a screenshot
Taking a screenshot is useful for a number of different reasons, but particularly when requesting help and support.
There are often various ways that actions can be completed on Okappy. Sending a screenshot helps provide valuable context such as the browser, device and screen you are looking at.
Read on to find out how to take a screenshot on different devices
You can take a screenshot on an Apple Mac in a couple of different ways.
Take a screenshot of part of a screen
To take a screenshot of part of the screen, click Shift, CMD 4. Then drag the cursor to select the part of the screen you want to capture. As soon as you let go, an image will be saved (normally to your desktop).
Take a screenshot of a particular window
To take a screenshot of a window, click Shift, CMD 4 and then space. Then click the mouse to capture the screen.
To capture a screenshot
To take a screenshot on Windows 10, simply click the Print screen key. This will save an images to your pictures folder
To take a screenshot on your iOS device
On an iPhoneX and above, hold down the Side button and the volume up button. This will save an image to your pictures folder.
On iOS devices with a home button, click the Side button and the home button to save a screenshot.
To take a screenshot on your Android device
Press and hold the power and volume buttons.
Recording the screen
Read on to find out how to record your screen on your Mac, Windows, iOS or Android devices.
Capture a screen recording
To record the screen,
- click Shift, CMD, 5
- A menu bar will be shown which has the following three options for screen capture
- Capture entire scren
- Capture selected window
- Capture selected portion
- And the following two options for screen recording
- Record entire screen
- Record selected portion
- Choose Record entire screen
- Click Record
The screen will start recording and you will get a record button in the top menu bar.
Once you have finished recording, click the record button in the menu bar to finish recording. The recording will be saved to your desktop
For older version of Mac OSX.
If the above option is not available. You can still record the screen using QuickTime Player.
- Open QuickTime player
- The file window will open
- Click Cancel
- In the QuickTime menu bar at the top of the screen, click File
- Click New Screen Recording
- Select the screen to record
- Click Record
To record the screen
Windows 10 has a built in tool called Game Bar to help record your screen.
Game Bar does require the right type of graphics card, otherwise you may receive an error telling you that your PC doesn’t meet the hardware requirement for recording clips.
First make sure Game Bar is enabled from Settings > Gaming > Record game clips
Then to record your screen, click WIN G
Click the Start recording button to capture your screen. You can also get to this quickly by click WIN ALT R
To stop the recording, click the Recording button on the floating bar. A notification appears telling you that the game clip was recorded.
Click the notification, and File Explorer opens to the specified location.
To record the screen
To record the screen on your iOS device, first add the record button to the control centre from Settings > Control Centre > Customise Controls, then tap next to Screen Recording.
You can then
- open the control centre
- click the record button to start recording.
- Once you have finished click the red icon in the top left of the screen.
- Click Stop in the alert
The screen recording will be saved to Photos.
To record the screen
On older versions of Android, there was no built in functionality to record the screen so you would need to download an app.
You access the Screen Recorder feature from the Quick Settings panel in the notification shade.
Out of the box, the screen recorder button isn’t there, so the first thing you must do is add the Screen Recorder button. To do this, drag down the notification shade twice until you see the Quick Settings panel (Figure A).
Tap the pencil icon in the bottom-left corner. This will open the Quick Settings editor, where you can customize the panel. Locate the Screen Recorder icon and drag it from the bottom to the top. Once you’ve placed the icon where you want it in the panel, tap the left-pointing arrow to back out of the editor.
To record the screen,
- Drag down the notification panel twice to reveal the Quick settings
- Tap the screen recorder icon
- When you’ve finished, pull down the notification panel and tap the red screen record card to end the recording.
A movie will be saved to photos