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I was doing nearly 2 hrs screen recording on my ipad (os16) 10 hours ago but the battery ran out and shut down. I immediately recharged my ipad. I opened Settings and noticed that System data jumped up by about 25GB, which is the size I would expect a nearly 2 hrs recording to have. The recording is still not saved in Photos and the system data size hasn’t dropped. Do I have a chance to recover it? Thank you!
iPad Air 4 Wi-Fi
If the screen recording is not visible within your Photo Library video’s, your only chance of recovery would be to shut-down and restart the iPad. Otherwise, the screen recording was not properly terminated when the battery failed - and the recording will be unrecoverable.
Settings > General > Shut Down
If the screen recording is not visible within your Photo Library video’s, your only chance of recovery would be to shut-down and restart the iPad. Otherwise, the screen recording was not properly terminated when the battery failed - and the recording will be unrecoverable.
Settings > General > Shut Down
Power off without stopping screen recording, can I recover it?
