Tutorial | iPhone Screenshot | July 2009 | MMcKennedy

Take A Screenshot With An iPhone (click for larger view)

So, you want to know how to take screenshots from an iPhone? It’s incredibly simple and you don’t even need any additional apps to do it!  Read on for a step-by-step tutorial on how to capture the current state of your iPhone in image form.

First of all, what is a screenshot? It’s an image of the current view, so what ever is on the screen gets captured in an image.  The image to the right is a screenshot.

Secondly, is screenshot one word or two…screen shot or screenshot?  Ahh…whatever, you get the point!

Thirdly, why would one want to capture a screenshot?  Say you wanted to post a blog article about how to capture a screenshot from your iPhone (hmmm….sounds familure doesn’t it?) and you wanted to include an example image of the screen capture, or, if you wanted to capture an image of your favorite iPhone apps to email to your friends (as opposed to typing out the names of the apps and emailing them).  You could even use this as a way to ‘crop’ an existing image on the iPhone.  Just open the image – zoom to the view you want and capture it.  Or you could use it to capture a still image from a video on YouTube.   The process is so simple and here it is.

Step 1: Get the iPhone to display the view you wish to capture.

Step 2: Hold down the ‘Home’ button (you know, the only physical button on front face of the iPhone)

Step 3: While continuing to hold the home button click the ‘Power’ button (the one on the top of the iPhone)

Step 4: There isn’t one – that’s it! 3 steps and you are done!

How do you find the iPhone screenshot?  They automatically get saved in your ‘Photos’ folder as .png files.  I know what you are thinking….’Wow! that is simple!’  My response to that….’Yup, is sure is!’