One of the many things iPhone and iPad users love about their devices is the video quality. Newer models come up to par with some professional filmmaking tools; you’ll see a lot of videos by content creators on sites like YouTube to be captured by mere iPhones.
While iPhones are great filmmaking tools, one major downside is that they lack the ability to pause and resume videos at will. However, you can work your way around this limitation by downloading third-party apps or using other iPhone features, like Photos slideshow.
We’ll show you how to use each of those workarounds below.
How to Use PauseCam to Pause an iPhone Video Recording
Being able to pause and resume video recording anytime allows you to capture many different scenes in a single continuous video. It’s also useful when you need to capture a specific shot but don’t want to waste too much storage space by keeping the video running.
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As of 2022, the ability to pause and resume recording while shooting a video is still unavailable on iPhones. You can only pause a recording by hitting the stop button to stop recording altogether and begin a new one—such a tedious task.
While Apple has yet to add the feature to following updates, you can try third-party apps to help solve your problems in the meantime. While there are other available apps for this purpose, we’ll be focusing on an app called PauseCam.
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PauseCam is a popular video recording app for iPhone users looking for a way to pause and resume video recording on their devices.
Note that the video quality may be less than if you’re going to use the iPhone’s Camera app to record your video. Moreover, since this is a third-party app, you’ll likely see a lot of ads—unless you decide to purchase an upgrade that removes all of those for you.
If you’re ready to go, here’s what you need to do:
- Download PauseCam from the App Store.
- Open the app, then tap Enable Camera and Enable Microphone and follow onscreen instructions to grant it access to your device’s mic and camera.
- Start recording by tapping the large, red record button.
- Tap the pause button at the bottom of the screen to pause your recording at any time. Once you’re done, tap the checkmark icon in the top right to stop recording altogether.
- You’ll be shown a preview of your video recording. Tap the share button and you’ll be asked to select the video quality. The app only allows Low quality for users on the free plan. Unlocking Medium, High, and Original video qualities requires a $1.99 in-app purchase.
- Select how you want to save your video file—tap Photos to save it to your library or More to view other options. You can also opt to share it straight to YouTube or Instagram.
Download: PauseCam (Free, in-app purchases available)
The app has other useful features. You can upload videos from your photo library and edit them with the app’s cutting or trimming tools. PauseCam also has filters that you can use. And it supports various social media sites, like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and cloud services like Evernote and Dropbox, for easy uploading and downloading.
Alternative Methods to Pause Your iPhone Video Recording
Aside from PauseCam, you can use other apps like VideoCam+ or ProMovie Recorder. However, if you don’t want to download third-party apps, you can take separate video clips and merge them into a single video using iMovie.
Alternatively, transform these clips into customized Memories on your iPhone.
A Big Limitation of iPhone Videos
iPhones have come a long way and adopted many features since the first release. For whatever reason, though, they still don’t have the basic functionality of allowing you to pause a video recording and pick back where you left off without creating two separate files. Until that happens, we’ll need to rely on third-party apps like PauseCam.
