Screen Capture (ScreenCaptureKit)

import ScreenCaptureKit captures the screen — or just your own app — as a live video + audio stream, records it to a file, or buffers recent content for instant-replay clips. It's new on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, and visionOS 27 (beta); macOS has had it since 12.3. On iOS it's the modern successor to ReplayKit-style capture.

When to Use

Use this skill when you're:

• Recording or live-streaming the iPad/iPhone screen (screen recording, screen sharing, broadcasting)
• Capturing just your own app's content (in-app capture), optionally with camera/mic overlays
• Buffering the last several seconds for instant-replay clips

Example Prompts

• "How do I record the iPad screen with ScreenCaptureKit on iOS 27?"
• "Capture just my own app's content and stream the frames."
• "How is ScreenCaptureKit different on iOS than on macOS?"
• "Record the screen straight to an .mp4 file."

What This Skill Provides

• The iOS capture model – on iOS you can't enumerate SCShareableContent (it's macOS-only); you obtain an SCContentFilter from the system SCContentSharingPicker (.present() / .presentForCurrentApplication()), then create an SCStream
• Output options – raw CMSampleBuffer frames (SCStreamOutput), record-to-file (SCRecordingOutput), instant-replay clip buffering, and iOS-only camera video effects (SCVideoEffectOutput, in-app capture only)
• Configuration – SCStreamConfiguration (width/height/audio); the verified iOS-vs-macOS availability deltas (e.g. minimumFrameInterval/pixelFormat/SCScreenshotManager are macOS-only)
• How it differs from neighbors – vs ImageRenderer (snapshots your own SwiftUI view, not the screen) and vs ReplayKit (the pre-27 iOS path)

Related

• Camera Capture – AVCaptureSession capture; the capture sibling for camera input rather than screen
• Now Playing – playback metadata for media you capture or stream
• avfoundation-ref – the AVFoundation types (AVFileType, codecs) that SCRecordingOutput writes