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You can finally record videos while playing music on the iPhone

The iPhone 16 Pro shooting a photo.
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

iPhone users who’ve upgraded to iOS 18 now have the option to record videos while audio is playing, as MacRumors spotted. If you’ve got music playing through the iPhone’s speaker, it’s a quick and dirty way to add a soundtrack to a video instead of bringing a clip into an editor, but audio quality does take a hit.

Previously, in older versions of iOS, opening the iPhone’s camera app and switching to video mode would cause any audio playing to quickly fade out, even if it was playing through wireless headphones. With iOS 18, there’s a new camera setting to change that behavior.

Screenshot: iOS 18

A new Allow Audio Playback option is now available for the iPhone’s camera app in iOS 18.

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