So, my most anticipated feature of iOS is finally here... Screen Recording, native, right in iOS.
Only one problem! As soon as you upload the screen recording to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or even insert it into iMovie the audio disappears. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Have you found a fix?
iPad Pro Wi-Fi + Cellular, iOS 11
I have a teacher that is still having this issue uploading to YouTube. I was able to recreate it as well.
What I found is that if we transfer the recording to a laptop (we used AirDrop) and then uploaded it to YouTube, the audio would not play when viewing on YouTube. When we upload the recording directly from an iPad to YouTube, the audio would play when viewing YouTube.
So it looks like uploading the iOS recording via the iPad, directly to YouTube does work for us. We are both running iOS 11.2.6.
The additional problem my teacher had is that her recordings are a little over 20 minutes. The YouTube app on the iPad limits you to 15 minutes of video or 128GB. However, uploading via a web browser does not have this limitation. So, we went to YouTube in the mobile safari app on the iPad and uploaded the video that way.
We did have to have our iPads request the YouTube desktop site before we could get full functionality.
Sound and video played as expected via YouTube after that.
I did read there may be a way to increase your 15 minute upload limit. I will try it an report back.
Apple:
I‘m a teacher too with students that are dealing with the same issue. Please Fix! It’s not a good solution for kids learning your product to have to use multiple go arounds.
Hoping for a speedy fix on this glitch.
Concerned Customer
How long are your recordings? Ours are over 1 minute. My iOS is updated as well as my iMovie app and I’m still experiencing the issue. I want to clarify, are you putting your screen recordings in iMovie? I can create a screen recording with sound, but the issue is once the recordings are added to iMovie the sound doesn’t work.
If you have any suggestions as to what I’m doing wrong I’d greatly appreciate it.
I'm still having an issue, though not when uploading video directly to social media, but when I attempt to upload the video to YouTube. The video has no audio after airdropping the video (with sound) to my MacBook pro. I'll try uploading the video to YouTube directly from my phone but right when I thought everything was working fine, the YT upload has no audio...
I’ve got a solution, but it costs $5.99. I want to do everything on my phone and with iMovie. To get the audio from a screencap into the right track so that iMovie can play it, download iConv.
Open the screencap in iConv. Tap it and choose convert. Hit Advanced and choose Audio Track 2. This creates a new mov with the audio from Track 2 either on Track 1 or both tracks. Either way, iMovie will pay the audio from this new file.
I tried this as well. But video acts funny in Premiere Pro. Doesn't work right like when playing in my iPhone.
I see what you mean. Turned out all sideways in Premiere and still no audio. 😕 Not sure how to access the second audio track. Hmmm.
Did the update... tried again... still no go. 😟 I hope they get this fixed soon! Com’on Apple
I'm having the exact same issue. Have you found a fix yet?
Unfortunatel, no. Every app I open it with or try to load it into and the audio will not work. I have a theory though and am going to test it out tonight. I will post my results here!
Keep me posted, Tried making videos for my classes and was so happy how well they turned out, then so disappointed by how i couldnt post them with audio.
I just tried with iOS 11.1.1 and the updated YouTube app and still no joy. The video is fine when uploaded to YouTube but there is no audio.
Bill
NICE work Apple - your dev team is awesome - thanks
Nope. This didn’t work. And I just paid $9.99 for the upgrade.
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THANK YOU!!! THIS ACTUALLY WORKED. I have been trying different solutions for HOURS.
Audio disappears from iOS 11 Screen Recordings when the video is uploaded
