How to take a screenshot in iPhone 2.0

:: Friday, July 11th, 2008 @ 2:02:47 am

:: Tags: Computers, iphone

A friend gave me a tip today about how to take a screenshot on any iPhone running firmware 2.0. Press the sleep and home buttons simultaneously. The screen will flash white, and a screenshot will be saved into your Camera Roll as a .png image.

To get the photos off of the iPhone, you can e-mail them out or import them into your computer as you would any other image in the Camera Roll. The screenshots have no thumbnails, but this isn’t a big deal (and is a known bug).

In prior versions of the iPhone firmware, I tried to screenshot various issues that I wanted my friends to take a look at. Unfortunately, I had to jailbreak my iPhone in order to get screenshots working. I then discovered that they didn’t work on the “Call Failed” screen, which pissed me off even more. The firmware 2.0 method is much easier. :)

screenshots don’t have thumbnails, due to a bug
(the missing thumbnails are the screenshots)

Images taken by the iPhone’s camera seem to have accurate thumbnails, but note the images of my friend’s newborn, which are unusually stretched. These were saved from Safari on the iPhone (by tapping and holding down one’s finger on the image).

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1. posted by links for 2008-07-21 « The View From My Window on Sun, July 20, 2008 @ 11:32 pm

   [...] How to take a screenshot in iPhone 2.0 | Eric Cheng’s Journal A friend gave me a tip today about how to take a screenshot on any iPhone running firmware 2.0. Press the sleep and home buttons simultaneously. The screen will flash white, and a screenshot will be saved into your Camera Roll as a .png image. (tags: iphone tutorial screenshot) [...]

2. posted by veggiedude on Tue, October 07, 2008 @ 2:46 pm

   Ditto for the iPod touch.

3. posted by tracy davies on Sun, February 15, 2009 @ 7:30 am

   Wow. Seems like a lot of people have found out about this. Saw this funky trick on this website if you’re feeling mischievous:

   http://cogito.faii.net/iphone-.....-tutorial/

   according to the author, once taking an image of a friend’s homepage on his iphone, hand the iphone back to him. he’ll think it’s hung or something like that. one of those cheap thrills.

4. posted by From Geek to Peak » Taking Screenshots on the iPhone on Mon, March 09, 2009 @ 11:08 am

   [...] like a good little geek, I googled “take a screenshot on the iphone” and ran across a handy article. If you’re running the 2.0 version of the iPhone firmware, simply press the home button and [...]

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