Filed under: Photo, Macintosh, How-Tos, iPhone
How-To: Take iPhone or iPod Touch screenshots!
by Jay Hathaway Jul 16th 2008 at 3:00PM
If you've been following the new iTunes app store, you might be wondering how all those screenshots got there. Some people seem to think you need to run an iPhone simulator or install an app to create them, but there's actually a built-in way to do it right on your phone or pod. We thought this would be a good time to go over it. Step 1: Briefly hold down the power button on the top of your device. While it's down, press the ... uhh, well, the only other button these things have. The one on the front. And that's all! Your screen should flash momentarily, and your screenshot should be saved in a new folder under Photos.
Appropriately, it's called Saved Photos. When you want to get your photos from your iPhone/iPod to your Mac, without having to mess around with syncing in iTunes, you can just pop open Image Capture -- it comes standard with OS X -- and pick the ones you want.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rocketboy said 4:02PM on 7-16-2008
Wow.. that's, umm, intuitive... i guess...
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Eric said 7:58PM on 7-16-2008
iPhones and iPod touches show up in Scanner and Camera Wizard on Windows, correct?
It doesn't matter to me, as a Mac user, but I'm sure quite a few people reading the article will be concerned.
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Nik said 4:51PM on 7-17-2008
You can also save pictures in the Safari browser by holding your finger on the picture for a couple of seconds. They also get saved to that folder.
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Frank Gruber said 4:49PM on 7-17-2008
Awesome! Thanks for the tip.
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JB said 5:50PM on 7-24-2008
And if i´m a windows user???
how am i transfer the photos, with itunes?
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julia said 3:07PM on 9-13-2008
I suspect the photos will show up in any software designed to nab images off of cameras, so hopefully windows comes with something like that.
This is a pain but before I found this tip I simply used the option on each image to email it to myself.
HTH,
Julia
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Stewart said 2:52AM on 7-30-2008
Nice tip. You can actually just push both buttons at the same time. A more in-depth guide about taking the screenshot and actually emailing it to yourself can be found here: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=How+To:+Taking+a+Screenshot+on+an+Ipod+Touch+/+Iphone&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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Stewart
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Jasper Schulze Buschhoff said 2:06PM on 8-02-2008
i've tried it hundred times..... it doesn't work!
my ipod: touch 16GB v. 1.1.4
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cameronp said 9:14PM on 8-02-2008
Ok, but after you take the pictures, how do you delete them? iPhoto annoyingly opens every time I plug in my iPod now.
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KennyJ said 5:12PM on 8-19-2008
Awesome, Thanks!
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Ihacks.eu idownloads.ru said 9:46PM on 9-22-2008
how do you update installer.app to 4.0b6?
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