IPHONE GUIDE / SCROLLING SCREENSHOT

How to Take a Scrolling Screenshot on iPhone

The right method depends on where the content lives. Safari and document views may support Apple's Full Page capture; chats, feeds, and many app screens need a sequence of overlapping screenshots stitched into one image.

QUICK ANSWER

Use Full Page when iOS offers it. Stitch when it does not.

Take a normal screenshot and look for the Full Page tab in the screenshot editor. If it is missing—or if you need one PNG from a chat, social feed, settings screen, or another app—capture overlapping screens and stitch them. LongShot validates the overlap locally before building the result.

01 / CHOOSE

Choose the capture method that matches the content

Safari page or supported documentTry the built-in Full Page tab first.
Chat, feed, app screen, or mixed contentTake overlapping screenshots and stitch them.
Sensitive or private screenshotsPrefer an on-device workflow without image uploads.

Apple documents the current screenshot controls in its official iPhone User Guide. Full Page availability depends on the view exposing a complete scrollable document; it is not a universal capture mode for every app.

02 / CAPTURE

Capture a clean overlapping sequence

  1. Keep the same orientation and width.Do not rotate the phone or change display zoom halfway through the sequence.
  2. Leave visible overlap.Keep roughly one-fifth to one-third of the previous screen visible in the next screenshot.
  3. Move in one direction.Capture from top to bottom without jumping backward or inserting an unrelated screenshot.
  4. Open LongShot after the sequence.After first-time Photos setup, it checks recent screenshots and validates real adjacent overlap.
  5. Inspect, save, then decide on cleanup.Saving is your action. Source deletion is optional and still requires an iOS confirmation.

03 / LIMITS

What a stitching app does—and does not do

LongShot does not secretly scroll through or capture another app. You take the screenshots. LongShot then reads the selected or recently captured images, verifies matching content, removes repeated overlap, and renders one PNG on your iPhone. If it cannot verify a safe automatic candidate, it offers manual image selection instead of guessing.

04 / NEXT

See the exact capture and stitching details