iPhone X Screen Recorder No Longer Recording iTunes Audio (IOS 11.3)

Recording Apple Music audio works for me when I have the ringer turned on. Just turn on your ringer, close out of the music app (or whatever app you’re trying to get audio from) and then reopen it. The audio should record then. Hope this helps!

i have exactly same problem on iphone 8, after 11.3 i just cant record sound on itunes. ive made same question, yet no help till this day. My only solution is to install InShot, and add audio in the app, like postproduction... so yeah

hostile move by Apple for the sake of preventing piracy.

Not piracy. It respects existing copyright laws.

Without permission from the music creator, this is illegal. You do not have the right to synchronize commercial music with pictures and create video clips.

See >>> Synchronization Rights – Entertainment Law

They removed the 3.5mm headphone jack because it was the last analog loophole on smartphones.

They did this, in part, because the resulting "hole" in a phone was a huge entry point for liquid.

when they do things that seem hostile to the end user.

Isn't violating a copyright holder's legal rights kinda hostile on the user's part?

Apple may think that they are protecting copyright by disabling this but what they are doing to the average user is handicapping the ability to share content from their service. Most people I know including myself who used this feature typically did so in order to share snippets of songs we like to social media (for me I would share to IG stories).

Be that as to may, it is against the law. That some rights holders choose not to enforce their rights does not change this. Apple's restriction of the ability to mate DRM protected audio and your visuals on their device shows a respect for the law, not contempt for the user.

Intended usage and "fair use" do not come in to play with these specific rights. You need permission.

reminds me of the Grateful Dead and how they set up special areas in their shows for fans to make tape recordings of the shows.

ok.. but Teac and other tape recorder manufacturers did not do this. The band did. Apples & roast beef.

but I don't know where else to go to publish this with the hope that someone from apple will read it and take it into consideration.

Apple is not the enemy here. They are not reading here.

Try feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://apple.com/feedback

I am still on an iPhone 6s Plus and after updating to IOS 11.3 I am also experiencing this problem. Unfortunately I don't think this is a glitch but rather another user hostile move by Apple for the sake of preventing piracy. They removed the 3.5mm headphone jack because it was the last analog loophole on smartphones. If you have to play your music through Bluetooth or the lighting port it gives them the ability to put digital limitations on how you use their products & services. I don't want to sound like an Apple hater on here because I am fully entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, but that is why it hurts so much when they do things that seem hostile to the end user. Id like to make a case for why apple should change their thinking when it comes to these kind of things. Particularly I want to talk about the screen recording of iTunes/Apple Music audio. Apple may think that they are protecting copyright by disabling this but what they are doing to the average user is handicapping the ability to share content from their service. Most people I know including myself who used this feature typically did so in order to share snippets of songs we like to social media (for me I would share to IG stories). I cant count the number of times that I discovered new music from friends who did this and then went into Apple Music to find and play the song (which generates revenue!!!!). This reminds me of the Grateful Dead and how they set up special areas in their shows for fans to make tape recordings of the shows. Most bands/labels at the time were against this because the idea was 'if they come to the show and can record it they wont buy our records!'. I may be off somewhat on a tangent here and I apologize if this is too far outside the context of the question but I don't know where else to go to publish this with the hope that someone from apple will read it and take it into consideration.

I suggest https://support.apple.com/contact

I like to make little clips of the music I'm listening to and used to be able to do this easily via the screen recorder function on my iPhone X.

Without permission from the music creator, this is illegal. You do not have the right to synchronize commercial music with pictures and create video clips.

See >>> Synchronization Rights – Entertainment Law

Great points. Most of which I had not considered before my post. I know Apple isn't the enemy. I love Apple and their products/services. All the points you made are super valid and I wish I did a little more homework before my long winded post. I think I may have poorly explained how I used the feature, in regards to the part where you said "your visuals".

From a legal perspective it probably doesn't make a difference but I just wanted to clarify that I was not pairing copyrighted music with original content. Everything stayed within the Apple Music app showing the song and artwork. If the law applies the same for the example below then I am curious to know how the Instagram and Snapchat apps still allow music to play while recording video. Maybe that something totally out of Apples control?

My Grateful Dead analogy wasn't the best and you are absolutely right that the technology manufactures had nothing to do with what the band did. Also I never mentioned this but I am an artist myself with music on iTunes, Apple Music, etc. and I would also use the feature to share clips of my own songs so that is where my initial frustration comes from. Re-reading my comments with your feedback, I can see how poorly I came across. I have the utmost respect for creators, their rights, and the law. I also understand why Apple would make this decision from a legal perspective. This is my first time ever posting to a discussion on here so I apologize for the nature of my post. In the future, unless I have something helpful to add, I will save my criticism for the feedback section you shared. Thank you for setting me straight.

I appreciate very much your mea culpa. I too am a content creator. A photographer. As a breed we know this double edged sword all too well.

"Hey, I am not stealing your photos to go with my music. I am giving you free publicity. What is yer problem??"

"Hey, can you give me a bigger file so I can make a 6 foot by 10 foot poster of the single use web-sized image you sold me? It got real fuzzy when I blew it up. It looks fine on the t-shirts we sell at our gigs."

Instagram and Snapchat et al are likely playing loose and fast with the laws. If the music is coincidentally playing at the same time as the visuals, that is another thing. If they are "synced" to always play together at that pace/speed etc. that's sync rights as I linked. A minefield of sorts and has been around for a long time, but never a big issue until technology put a recording studio in every phone.

Few musicians chase this issue, but those do do so very aggressively.

I am not naive enough to think this will go away because Apple stopped letting system audio bleed through to a screen recording on their devices. Apple takes a stand whoever possible and this is one of them, IMO.

I cant even screen record my own songs. I produce for fun and i wanna preview my new projects on social media. Sadly I cant do that now. I havent copyrighted my songs btw..

Are you sure you're using the latest iOS version? Music pauses when screen recording using iOS 11.3 and later.