Initial Notes on iPadOS 26’s Local Capture Mode

Initial Notes on iPadOS 26’s Local Capture Mode

Now this is what I call follow-up: six years after I linked to Jason Snell’s first experiments with podcasting on the iPad Pro (which later became part of a chapter of my Beyond the Tablet story from 2019), I get to link to Snell’s first impressions of iPadOS 26’s brand new local capture mode, which lets iPad users record their own audio and video during a call. First, some context: To ensure that the very best audio and video is used in the fi…

A few notes on iPadOS 26 audio and video capture

Last week’s Six Colors podcast was recorded entirely on iPads running iPadOS 26, mine in California and Dan’s in Massachusetts. The podcast is usually just for Six Colors members, but you can listen to it here if you want. You’ll be disappointed if you expect to hear anything special about it, though. We both recorded it on our usual Shure MV7 USB microphones, and it just doesn’t sound any different at all. (For the full iPad extravaganza, I sho…