Screen recordings capture more than you notice while you're talking: a customer's email in a list, a balance in a corner, a token in a URL. Here's how to keep them out of the video you share.
What counts as sensitive
- Names, email addresses, phone numbers and addresses of real people.
- Card numbers, bank details and account balances.
- API keys, passwords, tokens and private links (including in the address bar).
- Internal documents, chats and notifications that pop up while you record.
Before you record
- Use a demo account with made-up data whenever you can.
- Record a single tab rather than the whole screen, so other tabs and notifications aren't captured.
- Turn on Do Not Disturb.
- Close password managers and anything showing keys or tokens.
Automatic blurring of sensitive fields
Wekiflo can blur sensitive fields such as emails and card numbers automatically. It also never records what you type as data, only that a key was pressed, so text you type isn't stored anywhere except in the picture you choose to record.
Blur or block out areas afterwards
- Open the recording. Open the recording in the Wekiflo editor.
- Add a hidden area. Add an area and drag it over the part of the preview you want to hide.
- Choose blur or block out. Blur keeps the layout visible; block out hides it completely.
- Watch it through. Play the whole recording and check that the area covers the information everywhere it appears.
- Export. Export the video; the hidden areas are part of the picture.
Blur or block out? Blur is fine for names and emails. For numbers and keys, block out is safer: heavy blur on short text can sometimes be reversed.
Check before you share
- Watch the exported file, not the editor preview, at full screen.
- Look at moments when the page scrolls or a zoom moves: that's when information slips out of a hidden area.
- Check the first and last second, where people often show a dashboard or an inbox.
Keeping recordings on your own computer is part of privacy too. See screen recording without uploads.