How to Show Touches in any Mobile Phone: Enabling ‘show taps’ in Android screen recordings in your smartphone. Open Settings app on the Android device and scroll to the very bottom of the menu and tap “About phone” or directly search for ‘Build Number/Version’. Click on it 5-7 consecutive times until a message flashes telling you that you are now in developer mode. Then go back to the main Settings menu and tap on “System/Additional Settings”. There should be a new ‘Developer Options’ option below to ‘Accessibility’ option. Select ‘Developer Options’. Under the ‘Input’ heading there is a ‘Show touches’ option. Enabling this will show all touch events on the screen including pinch to zoom gestures and so on.