

Notice that Apple took the time to replace your device’s status bar with one being carrier-free and fixed at 9:41am.

Connect your iOS 8 device to your Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) computer with the USB to lightning or dock connector cable.No new software to install – Yosemite and iOS 8 are the only requirement.Easy access to QuickTime’s built-in exporting tools.Capture audio from the device or your computer.High quality video recording – the video is going over the wire instead of WiFi.The implications of this new feature include: Enter iOS 8 & YosemiteĪpple introduced the ability to record the screens of iOS 8 devices with QuickTime Player in Mac OS X Yosemite. You may have already been familiar with the ability to do a screen recording with QuickTime but now those screens includes any of the iOS 8 devices you have connected with a cable. Reflector also isn’t free which makes it difficult for users in the wild to record bugs. This works fairly decently although the quality over WiFi isn’t very good leaving you with a less-than-crisp recording.

In the past the only method available was to use a program like Reflector to emulate an AirPlay/Apple TV and then record on your machine. You need to record your iPhone or iPad’s screen to show someone a bug or demo a feature to your customers.
