As part of making some screen recordings of app behavior recently, I noticed that the Notification Center notifications I was expecting to see weren’t appearing. As soon as I stopped making the screen recordings and replicated what I was doing, I saw the Notification Center notifications appear like they should.

After verifying that I hadn’t somehow enabled Focus or done something else to stop Notification Center notifications from appearing, I did some research which uncovered the solution. For more details, please see below the jump.

As part of the Notifications preferences in the Settings app, there is the following option:

Allow notifications when mirroring or sharing the display

This setting also apparently includes making screen recordings, because enabling it allowed Notification Center notifications to appear during screen recordings. To enable this setting, please use the following procedure:

1. Open Settings

2. Go to Notifications.

3. Enable the Allow notifications when mirroring or sharing the display setting.

You should now see notifications appearing while mirroring, sharing the display, or when making screen recordings.