One of the most popular messaging applications currently is Snapchat. His proposal for messages with an expiration date have seduced a very specific audience. Video recording, in this application as it usually happens in others, forces us to keep the record button pressed.
With this trick that we will introduce you to today, you will be able to do whatever you want while recording a video, since you do not need to hold down the record button for a long time.
However, there is a small limitation regarding this way of recording videos, and that is that unfortunately we can only make videos of 8 seconds in length.
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This is possible thanks to a gesture created with a tool from the system itself iOS. Is called Assistive Touch, and with it you can create personalized gestures, which in this case will make the application believe that you are pressing the video recording button, without the need to use your hands.
You just have to create a button that takes the place of pressing, which is above the recording icon of Snapchat, so that it is activated and you do not have to keep your finger pressed on the application button.
You can also create a shortcut, which will allow you to activate Assistive Touchand not having to repeat the whole process every time you want to use it.
Assistive Touch In case you don’t know it, it is a tool that allows you to configure all kinds of actions, automating some processes that usually take up a lot of time. In this simple way, you can record videos in Snapchat, without the need to keep the button pressed, so we will have total freedom of movement for it.
How to activate AssistiveTouch?
When you turn on AssistiveTouch, note that you can drag it to any edge of the screen, then touch it to open it.
Here are some ways to activate AssistiveTouch:
- Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > AssistiveTouch. Then turn on AssistiveTouch.
- Say this command to Siri: “Turn on AssistiveTouch.”
- Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut. Then turn on AssistiveTouch.
When Accessibility Shortcut is turned on, remember that you can turn AssistiveTouch on or off from anywhere on the screen. You only have to press the start button three times.
- To adjust the triple click speed, just go to: Settings > General > Accessibility > Click speed.
Do not forget that the videos for Snapchat have a very short duration (8 seconds), so you must be very fast to record your videos.
