Taking a screenshot on your iPhone is easy: just press the volume up and side buttons at the same time. You can even ask Siri to take a screenshot for you if you were so inclined. But what if you need to capture a larger portion of a web page, text thread or something that needs a little extra room that the standard screenshot allows for? That’s where full page screenshots come in.
Full page screenshots require only a few more steps than the standard way, and there are some limitations involved when it comes to saving them in the file format you want to. Below, we’ll explain how to take a scrolling screenshot and the guardrails in place that will get you the results you’re looking for.
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What’s a full page screenshot?
A full-page screenshot, or scrolling screenshot, captures an entire page — webpage, document or email — without you having to take multiple screenshots and then stitch them together. For example, if you wanted to screenshot a 116-page document in Safari, you would only have to take a single screenshot to capture the entire thing.
How to take a full page screenshot on your iPhone
To take a scrolling screenshot, do the following:
1. First, take a regular screenshot on your iPhone. Quickly press the side button and volume up button.
2. Tap the screenshot preview that appears in the bottom-left corner. It appears for about five seconds, so be quick.
3. Next, go to the Full Page option. You’ll see a preview of the entire scrolling screenshot on the right, along with a larger preview in the middle. You have tools to crop the screenshot, in case it’s too long. When you’re finished editing, hit Done.
4. Finally, tap Save PDF to Files or Save to Photos (if available) to save the screenshot.
Saving long screenshots can feel a little unintuitive
Before, you could save long screenshots only as PDF files. And that’s sort of still true — depending on the length of your screenshot.
The most obvious way to see if your scrolling screenshot can be saved to your photo reel is to just check by doing step four above. The option to save the screenshot to your photos will either be there or it won’t. The other way to know is by taking a look at the screen overview to the right after you tap the Full Page screenshot option.
If the length of the screenshot exceeds the length of your phone’s screen, you’ll only be able to save as a PDF. If it doesn’t, you should be able to save it in your photos. Apple’s support page doesn’t define the exact parameters, but this is a good rule of thumb to go by.
In practice, taking full page screenshots can sometimes feel a little messy and doesn’t feel very Apple-like, but once you understand what you can and can’t do, it’s easy enough to work within the parameters.
Where to find your long screenshots
As mentioned above, extra-long screenshots are automatically converted to PDFs, so they’re saved to the native Files app. To view your scrolling screenshot, open the Files app, go to the folder in which your screenshot was saved and tap the screenshot.
Here you can rename the file, draw on it, leave comments and more. You can also share the scrolling screenshot, but the other person must have Files or another PDF-reader to view it.
If you saved your screenshot to your Photos app, then that’s where you can expect to find it.
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