Tap any Tape to watch it. The whole thing plays from beginning to end as one continuous video, however many separate recordings went into it — no gaps, no black flashes, no interruption to the sound.
The controls fade away while you watch and come back when you tap the picture.
The controls
- Play and pause
- The large button in the middle of the control bar.
- Back 10 / Forward 10
- Jumps ten seconds in either direction. The quickest way to catch something you missed.
- The filmstrip
- The strip of thumbnails along the bottom. Drag it to move through the Tape — see Scrubbing through a Tape.
- Recordings
- The list button opens every recording in the Tape so you can jump straight to one.
- Continue Recording
- Adds more to this Tape without leaving the screen.
- The three-dot menu
- Manage Recordings, Rename, Prepare, Export, and Delete.
Turning the phone
Turn your iPhone sideways while watching a landscape Tape and the picture fills the screen. Portrait Tapes fill the screen held upright. The controls rearrange themselves to suit, and there's nothing to switch on.
If turning the phone does nothing, your iPhone's Rotation Lock is on — swipe down from the top-right corner to switch it off.
What the player deliberately doesn't have
There's no playback speed control, no loop, no picture-in-picture, and no AirPlay button. Videflo's player is built to show a memory the way it happened, and the controls are kept to what that needs.
If you'd like any of these, export the Tape to your Photos library and watch it there — the Photos app and the TV app offer the full set of playback features.
Tips
Tap the picture once to bring the controls back, and again to hide them. They also hide themselves after a few seconds.
The controls won't disappear while your finger is on the filmstrip, so you can take your time.
The date and time in the corner is the moment that footage was actually filmed, not the position in the Tape.
Troubleshooting
There's no sound.
- Check the iPhone's silent switch and the volume buttons.
- If it was filmed while microphone access was off, the footage is genuinely silent and can't be fixed afterwards.
- Check nothing is connected by Bluetooth that's taking the audio, like headphones in another room.
The Tape looks shorter than I expected.
- Open Manage Recordings to see everything the Tape actually contains.
- A recording that was interrupted holds only what was captured before the interruption.
- Check the recovery card on Home in case a recording never made it into the Tape.
Playback stutters or the picture freezes.
- Close other apps and try again — 4K playback asks a lot of the phone.
- Switch off Low Power Mode, which limits performance.
- Restart your iPhone if it persists.
Frequently asked
Can I play a Tape at double speed?
Not inside Videflo. Export the Tape to your Photos library, where the Photos app offers speed controls.
Can I watch a Tape on my TV?
There's no AirPlay button in Videflo. Export the Tape to Photos and AirPlay it from there, or copy the exported file to a computer.
Why does the whole Tape play instead of one recording?
Because that's what a Tape is — one continuous memory. To watch a single recording on its own, open **Manage Recordings** and play it from there.
Related articles
Scrubbing through a Tape
Using the filmstrip to find an exact moment, including on a Tape that's hours long.
Timestamps: the date stamp on your Tapes
Turning the camcorder-style timestamp on or off, moving it to the other corner, and burning it into an export.
Managing the recordings inside a Tape
Play, rename, trim, or delete the individual pieces a Tape is made of.
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