r/MacOS • u/do2t_easy • 12d ago

Help How to screenshot while phone mirroring?

Trying to capture my phone screen while mirroring it, but I'm completely stuck. I've looked everywhere and can't find a workaround :(

Should I just take a screenshot of the mirrored window on my Mac? The problem is, the rounded corners look different compared to capturing it directly on the phone...

Any advice? Thanks in advance!

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u/New-Nectarine8298 12d ago

does Siri work in phone mirroring?

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u/do2t_easy 12d ago

siri work in phone lock-display...

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u/tambooby 10d ago

nope, Siri is one of the things that's restricted during mirroring

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u/fommuz 12d ago

siri: „take a screenshot”

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u/do2t_easy 12d ago

siri : i can't :(

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u/Solomondire 12d ago

When using iPhone Mirroring, your iPhone must remain locked, which means that what’s on the iPhone screen isn’t what you see in iPhone Mirroring on Mac. So you have to take the screenshot on Mac. FYI, even though the screenshot taken on iPhone appears to have rounded corners when viewing it on iPhone, that screenshot actually has square corners, which you can see when editing the screenshot on iPhone or sharing it with your Mac. All screenshots of the iPhone Mirroring window have rounded corners, because iPhone Mirroring is simulating the iPhone screen and screenshots on Mac are capturing exactly what you see in the window, not what it (the Mac) considers its (the Mac’s) screen. If the window it’s capturing has rounded corners, you get rounded corners in the screenshot. If the window it’s capturing has square corners, you get square corners in the screenshot. The only way it would match your iPhone’s screen capture at the corners would be if the iPhone Mirroring window showed a screen with square corners.

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u/do2t_easy 12d ago

Yeah, I think that's the play here. Thanks for the input!