Almost everywhere in Videflo, a Tape is treated as one whole thing. Manage Recordings is the one screen that opens it up and shows the individual recordings inside.
It's where you'd go to remove a recording you didn't mean to keep, trim one that starts too early, or give a recording a name so you can find it later.
Opening the list
Press and hold a Tape and choose Manage Recordings.
You can also reach it from the three-dot menu while watching a Tape.
Each recording appears in the order it was filmed.
Numbered, with its length, and its own row of actions.
What you can do to a recording
- Play
- Watches that one recording on its own, without the rest of the Tape.
- Edit
- Opens the trim editor, where you can shorten the start and the end. See Trimming a recording.
- Rename Recording
- Gives it a name of your own. Leave the box empty to go back to the plain default, like “Recording 3”.
- Delete
- Removes that recording from the Tape and deletes its video. Permanent.
- Export to Photos
- Saves that single recording into your photo library, without preparing the whole Tape.
Deleting one recording
Find the recording in the list and choose Delete.
Confirm.
Videflo asks once, because it can't be undone.
The Tape closes the gap by itself.
The remaining recordings still play as one continuous piece — there's nothing to fix afterwards.
Deleting the last one left deletes the Tape
If a Tape has only one recording in it and you delete that recording, there's no Tape left to keep. Videflo says so plainly and asks you to confirm Delete Entire Tape rather than doing it quietly.
To remove only the most recent recording — the classic “that last bit was pointless” — open this list, scroll to the bottom, and delete the final entry. Everything before it is untouched.
Tips
Play a recording before deleting it. Row four of a long list is rarely what you remember it being.
Naming recordings is optional and most people never do it — but on a Tape that's grown over a year, “Christmas morning” beats “Recording 11”.
Deleting a recording marks any prepared copy of the Tape as Tape Changed. Prepare it again before your next export.
Common mistakes
Deleting several recordings to free up space without checking what they were.
Play each one first. Deleted footage is gone for good, and a five-second clip barely moves the storage needle anyway.
Expecting to be able to drag recordings into a different order.
A Tape keeps the order things happened in, on purpose. If a recording is in the wrong Tape, there's no way to move it — the order and the membership are both fixed at recording time.
Troubleshooting
A recording shows as unavailable or won't play.
- Its video file is missing — usually because storage ran out mid-save, or a restore didn't bring everything back.
- The rest of the Tape still plays. Deleting the broken entry tidies the list.
The Tape's total length looks wrong after deleting.
- That's expected — the total is the sum of what's left. Reopen the Tape and it will be recalculated.
Frequently asked
Can I move a recording to a different Tape?
No. Recordings belong to the Tape they were filmed into.
The one exception is a recording rescued by the recovery card, which can be attached to any existing Tape at that moment.
Does deleting a recording free up space straight away?
Yes — the video file is removed from your iPhone at that point.
Can I hide a recording instead of deleting it?
No. A Tape plays everything it contains, so the only way to leave something out is to delete it or trim it away.
Related articles
Trimming a recording
Shorten the start or the end of one recording — the only editing Videflo does.
Renaming, deleting, and tidying your Tapes
The Tape menu, what each action does, and which ones can't be undone.
How much space Tapes use, and how to free some up
Where the gigabytes go, what's safe to delete, and what the low-storage warning means.
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