Apple customers have been at a loss after realizing lengthy recordings of their iPhone screens have been eating up huge portions of their device’s available storage.
Some Reddit users started to question a small red circle that had appeared at the top of their screens only to later be told they were unwittingly making these videos.
Apple says that if a small red circle appears on your phone screen, it means that you are recording – a feature which enables users to share content from their screens to others.
‘What is running on my phone? I don’t recognize this red circle on my dynamic island,’ said one reddit user.
‘You’re screen recording,’ another explained.
Apple customers have been at a loss after realizing lengthy recordings of their iPhone screens have been eating up huge portions of their devices available storage
When iPhone users first receive their devices they are automatically given 5GB of free storage.
In many cases, if this runs out, customers will be looking at paying extra fees monthly to increase it.
The tech giant provides plans from 50GB to 2TB at a monthly rate of 99 cents to close to ten dollars before tax.
Luckily for customers, Apple has provided a step-by-step guide on how to stop the recordings before they take up too much storage and a way to delete them.
If it appears on your screen the first step is to go to setting to turn it off.
Once there, users should go to the control center and tap the record button that is shaped as a circle. To turn it off, tap the red circle button and it will appear white.
To make sure the video recording did not take up storage, users can go to their picture app and easily delete the recording like any video or picture.
The feature has been used by social media users in a number of different ways, including recording their screens to share news stories, funny videos and in some cases text messages.
It can also be used to explain how to use the device as seen in some YouTube tutorials.
