The recording screen is deliberately plain: a big round button in the middle, Finish beside it, and a few quiet controls for the camera itself.
The key thing to understand is that pausing is not stopping. You can pause and resume as many times as you like, and it all becomes one smooth recording. Finish is the one that ends the session and saves it into your Tape.
What's on screen
- The round button
- Starts recording, pauses it, and resumes it. It never moves and never changes size, so you can find it without looking.
- Finish
- Ends the session and saves everything you just filmed into the Tape. This is the one that finishes the job.
- Flip
- Switches between the rear and front cameras. You can do this mid-recording.
- The status dot and timer
- Green means ready, red and gently pulsing means recording right now, gold means paused. The timer counts the footage you've captured this session.
- The zoom slider and lens buttons
- A slider above the main controls, and — on iPhones with more than one rear lens — small buttons like 0.5×, 1× and 3×.
Recording something
Open the recording screen.
Either by making a new Tape, or by choosing Continue Recording on one you already have.
Hold your iPhone the way the Tape was started.
If it's the wrong way round, Videflo shows a card asking you to turn it. It disappears the moment you do.
Tap the round button to start.
The dot turns red and the timer begins.
Tap it again to pause whenever you like.
The dot turns gold. Nothing is lost — you're simply between takes.
Tap once more to carry on.
Pause and resume as often as you want.
Tap Finish when you're done.
Videflo saves everything from the session into your Tape as a single recording, and takes you back.
Saving takes a moment
After Finish, Videflo joins the pieces together. Usually that's about a second. Long sessions filmed at High quality take a little longer — let the screen finish rather than force-closing the app.
Throwing a session away
Closing the recording screen while you have footage captured asks whether you want to discard it, and tells you exactly how much you'd be losing. Keep Recording takes you back; Discard throws that session away.
Discarding can't be undone
Footage you discard is deleted straight away. If you're not certain, tap Finish instead — you can always delete the recording from the Tape afterwards, and you'll have had a chance to watch it first.
Tips
Your iPhone won't dim or lock while you're recording, so you can put it on a table and let it run.
Pause rather than finish between shots. One recording made of six pauses plays back better than six recordings — and it's less to manage later.
Keep an eye on the low-storage warning in the corner. It appears while there's still room to finish what you're doing, not once it's too late.
Common mistakes
Tapping Finish between every shot, so a single afternoon becomes fifteen recordings.
Use pause instead. The Tape plays back identically either way, but you'll have far less to scroll through in Manage Recordings.
Swiping the app away while it's still saving.
Wait for the screen to return on its own. If you do interrupt it, Videflo will offer to rescue the footage next time you open the app.
Troubleshooting
The record button doesn't respond.
- Look for the orientation card — Videflo won't start until the phone is held the way the Tape was created.
- Check the storage warning. With almost no free space, recording can't begin.
- Confirm camera and microphone access are on in Settings → Videflo.
Recording stopped by itself.
- A phone call, an alarm, or another app taking over the camera will interrupt it. Videflo keeps what it captured up to that point.
- Very low battery or very low storage will also stop it. Both are worth checking before a long session.
Frequently asked
Does pausing create a separate video?
Not as far as you're concerned. Everything from one session — however many times you paused — is saved as a single recording, and it plays back seamlessly.
Can I switch to the front camera part way through?
Yes. Tap **Flip** at any point, including while recording. The Tape carries on as one continuous piece.
Can I lock the screen while it records?
No — recording needs the app to be on screen. Videflo keeps the display awake for you, so it won't dim or lock on its own while you film.
Is there a maximum recording length?
Videflo doesn't impose one. Free storage and battery are the real limits, and the low-storage warning gives you notice before space becomes a problem.
Related articles
Adding to a Tape you already have
How Continue Recording works, and why it's the heart of the whole app.
Zoom, lenses, and flipping the camera
The controls around the record button, and how to use them without wobbling the shot.
Calls, crashes, and rescuing an interrupted recording
What happens when something interrupts you mid-recording — and how Videflo gets your footage back.
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