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Tech 05 Sep 2026 7 min read

Why Screen Recordings Can Have No Audio

You record a useful tutorial, a video call, or a problem on your phone, then play the recording and discover that the sound is missing. The screen recorder clearly captured the picture, so it can seem as though audio should have been recorded automatically too. Screen video and audio are separate inputs. A recorder can capture the pixels being shown while recording no sound at all, or it can capture one audio source but not another. The exact choices depend on the device, operating system, app, and content being recorded.