How to Screenshot on iPhone (Full Page + No Buttons) 2026

Taking a screenshot is one of the most useful things you can do on a phone. It's how you save a receipt, share a bug with a developer, keep a boarding pass handy or send a friend a funny message. The exact button combination depends on which iPhone you have, and there are also ways to do it without pressing any buttons at all.

Every step below matches Apple's support article Take a screenshot on your iPhone (published October 15, 2026), the iPhone User Guide screenshot page, and Apple's screen capture settings guide. Checked November 7, 2026.

Coming from another device? See how to screenshot on Mac or how to screenshot on Android.

Quick answer

On any iPhone without a Home button (iPhone 11 through iPhone 17, plus iPhone Air), quickly press and release the side button and volume up together. On an iPhone SE or another model with a Home button, press the side button (or top button) and Home button together. To capture a whole webpage, tap the preview and choose Full Page. No working buttons? Use Back Tap, AssistiveTouch or ask Siri. Screenshots land in Photos → Collections → Media Types → Screenshots.

Which method does your iPhone use?

There are only three button methods. Which one you use depends on whether your iPhone has Face ID or a Home button.

Quick check: if your iPhone has a round Home button below the screen, it uses Touch ID. If the screen runs edge to edge with no Home button, it uses Face ID.

How to take a screenshot on an iPhone with Face ID

This method covers the iPhone 17 and iPhone 16 lineups, the iPhone 15 through iPhone 11 series, iPhone Air, and every other Face ID model. Apple's steps are:

1. Press the side button and the volume up button at the same time.
2. Quickly release both buttons.
3. After you take a screenshot, edit, share, or save it. In iOS 18 or earlier, a thumbnail temporarily appears in the lower-left corner of your screen. Tap the thumbnail to open it or swipe left to dismiss it.

Tip: press and release quickly. If you hold the buttons too long, you'll open the power-off and Emergency SOS screen instead. That is the same gesture used when you turn off your iPhone, so a short press-and-release is the key difference.

iPhone 16 and iPhone 17 screenshot

People often ask whether newer models changed the shortcut because of the Camera Control button. They didn't. Apple's steps for every Face ID iPhone, including the iPhone 16 and iPhone 17, are the side button + volume up. Camera Control isn't part of Apple's screenshot steps.

iPhone 15, 14, 13, 12 and 11 screenshot

Same method again: side button + volume up. Every Face ID iPhone works the same way, so there's no separate shortcut for the iPhone 15, iPhone 14 or iPhone 13.

How to take a screenshot on an iPhone with Touch ID and side button

This applies to the iPhone SE (2nd and 3rd generation) and other models with a Home button and a power button on the right side.

1. Press the side button and the Home button at the same time.
2. Quickly release both buttons.
3. After you take a screenshot, edit, share, or save it. In iOS 18 or earlier, a thumbnail temporarily appears in the lower-left corner of your screen. Tap the thumbnail to open it or swipe left to dismiss it.

If the Home button feels stiff or unresponsive, jump to the no-button methods below instead of forcing the click.

How to take a screenshot on an iPhone with Touch ID and top button

Older iPhones with the power button on top use this method:

1. Press the top button and the Home button at the same time.
2. Quickly release both buttons.
3. After you take a screenshot, edit, share, or save it. In iOS 18 or earlier, a thumbnail temporarily appears in the lower-left corner of your screen. Tap the thumbnail to open it or swipe left to dismiss it.

What happens after you take a screenshot

Apple notes that in iOS 26, your iPhone automatically shows the screenshot with quick tools. You can draw on it with Markup, crop it, send it to other apps or contacts, or tap the save button to choose where it goes.

In iOS 18 and earlier, a thumbnail briefly appears in the lower-left corner. Tap it to edit, or swipe left to dismiss it and save it straight to Photos. Swiping left dismisses the thumbnail without opening the editor; the image still lands in Photos.

Apple's User Guide also notes that screenshots with thumbnails save automatically, while full-screen previews expect you to swipe up or tap save to keep the shot. That is why turning Full-Screen Previews off feels "faster" if you take dozens of shots a day and rarely need Markup.

A few practical uses:

• Crop out personal details before sharing a bank or chat screenshot.
• Circle the problem with Markup when reporting a bug to a developer or support team.
• Save a ticket or QR code so you can reach it offline.
• Share immediately from the preview instead of digging through Photos later.
• Delete a misfire from the preview if you grabbed a lock screen or notification banner by accident.

How to take a full-page (scrolling) screenshot on iPhone

iPhone can capture content beyond the edge of the screen, such as an entire webpage in Safari. Apple's iPhone User Guide, Take a screenshot on iPhone, describes it like this:

1. Take a screenshot as usual with the buttons (or with Back Tap / AssistiveTouch / Siri).
2. Tap the screenshot preview (or the thumbnail in the lower-left corner) to open it.
3. Tap Full Page. Drag your finger on the preview strip on the right to see the rest of the page.
4. To keep only part of it, crop by dragging the handles, then save. Apple's guide also notes you can tap the crop control, then drag the handles for a smaller portion of a full-page shot.
5. Annotate with Markup if you want callouts before you share.
6. Save or share from the same preview toolbar.

Full Page appears only where there's more to capture, so it shows up in Safari but not on the Home Screen. It's handy for capturing long receipts, articles and support docs in one go. If you do not see Full Page after tapping the preview, the current screen simply does not have extra scrollable content—try opening the page in Safari instead of an in-app browser that truncates the document.

macOS does not offer the same built-in scrolling capture—on a Mac you grab the visible area with Shift-Command-4, or capture the page on your phone instead. Details are in how to screenshot on Mac. Android phones often expose a similar "Capture more" or scroll option; see how to screenshot on Android.

How to turn off the full-screen screenshot preview

In iOS 26 and later, a screenshot opens in full screen by default. If you prefer the old small thumbnail in the lower-left corner, Apple's screen capture settings page gives these steps:

1. Open Settings and tap General.
2. Tap Screen Capture.
3. Turn off Full-Screen Previews.

With the thumbnail, screenshots save automatically to Photos. With full-screen previews on, you swipe up or tap the save option to keep the shot.

Choose SDR or HDR (PNG vs HEIF)

The same Screen Capture page also has a format choice:

• SDR captures less brightness and color. Screenshots use PNG, which works everywhere. Screen recordings use HEVC.
• HDR captures more brightness and color. Screenshots use HEIF, and you need an HDR display to see the full quality. Screen recordings use HEVC (HDR10).

Apple notes that on standard displays, HDR screenshots appear in SDR format. If a website, form or chat app won't accept your screenshots, switching to SDR is the easy fix.

Optional Screen Capture toggles

Apple's settings guide also lists two other controls on the same page:

• Automatic Visual Look Up — on supported models and some languages, iPhone can identify objects and places that appear in screenshots.
• CarPlay Screenshots — turn this on if you want to capture from CarPlay.

You usually leave both alone unless you specifically need them.

Edit a screenshot with Markup

After you capture, open the preview (full-screen tools in iOS 26, or the lower-left thumbnail on earlier iOS). From there you can:

• Crop by dragging the handles
• Draw, highlight or add text with Markup
• Share to Messages, Mail or another app
• Delete if you grabbed the wrong screen
• Save to Photos (or choose a destination when the save button appears)

Crop before you share anything with an account number, address or notification preview on it. Markup is enough for arrows and red boxes when you file a support ticket.

Unlike macOS—where Control + Shift + Command + 3/4 copies a screenshot straight to the clipboard—iPhone focuses on the on-screen preview and Photos. The fastest "clipboard-like" habit on iPhone is to open the preview and use Share into the app you need, or copy from the share sheet when the destination app supports it. For a walkthrough instead of a still image, use how to screen record on iPhone.

How to screenshot without buttons

If a button is broken, stiff or simply awkward to reach, iOS has three built-in alternatives: Back Tap, AssistiveTouch and Siri. Apple's User Guide explicitly lists all three as alternatives to the hardware buttons.

Use Back Tap

Back Tap lets you take a screenshot by double-tapping or triple-tapping the back of your iPhone. From Apple's Back Tap guide:

1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap.
2. Choose Double Tap or Triple Tap, then choose an action. Pick Screenshot.
3. To perform the action you set, double-tap or triple-tap the back of iPhone.

To turn it off later, go back to the same screen, choose Double Tap or Triple Tap, and tap None.

Example: set Double Tap to Screenshot and Triple Tap to something else, like Control Center. Then you have two shortcuts without touching a button. A thick case can make taps harder to detect—try a firmer tap or temporarily remove the case if Back Tap seems flaky.

Use AssistiveTouch

AssistiveTouch adds a floating on-screen button that can replace physical buttons. Apple's AssistiveTouch article lists "Capture a screenshot" among its functions.

1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch, then turn on AssistiveTouch.
2. Tap the floating button to open the AssistiveTouch menu.
3. Choose Screenshot. To put it on the first screen of the menu, go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch, tap Customize Top Level Menu, then tap an icon and assign Screenshot.

For one-tap screenshots, assign it as a custom action:

1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch.
2. Under the Custom Actions heading, choose Single-Tap, Double-Tap, or Long Press.
3. Choose Screenshot from the list.

You can also ask Siri to "Turn on AssistiveTouch" if digging through Settings is awkward with a broken side button.

Ask Siri

Apple lists Siri as another way to take a screenshot instead of using the buttons. Activate Siri and ask it to take a screenshot. This is the quickest option when your hands are busy or a button has stopped working, and it needs no setup beyond having Siri turned on.

Siri is especially useful when one physical button is stuck: you can still capture the screen, then open the preview and save or share as usual. If Siri is off, turn it on in Settings before you rely on this path, or use Back Tap / AssistiveTouch instead.

Where to find your screenshots

Apple's path: open Photos, go to Collections, tap Media Types, then tap Screenshots. They also appear in your main library with your other photos. Apple's User Guide confirms screenshots are automatically saved to your photo library after capture (with the thumbnail / full-screen-preview caveats above).

If you just took a shot and cannot see it yet, wait a second for the preview to dismiss, then pull down in Photos to refresh. Full-page Safari captures still show up in the Screenshots album alongside normal screen grabs.

If storage is tight after months of captures:

• Delete screenshots you no longer need from that Screenshots album
• Clear leftover browser clutter with how to clear cache on iPhone
• Remove apps you never open with how to delete apps on iPhone

Before selling or handing on a phone, back up anything important and follow our factory reset iPhone guide. A hard restart can also clear stuck screenshot behavior—see how to hard reset iPhone when a soft restart is not enough.

Screenshot not working? Quick fixes

Work through these checks when the buttons do nothing, or when you keep landing on the wrong screen:

1. Timing: press both buttons together, then release them quickly. Pressing one button on its own can lock the screen or change the volume instead.
2. Holding too long: this opens the power-off / Emergency SOS slider. Release faster. If you meant to power down, use the steps in how to turn off iPhone.
3. Back Tap not responding: check that the gesture is set to Screenshot and not None. A thick case can also make taps harder to detect.
4. AssistiveTouch missing Screenshot: open Customize Top Level Menu and assign Screenshot, or set it under Custom Actions.
5. Restricted apps: some streaming apps may block screen capture, so the video area can come out blank. That is expected for protected content.
6. No Full Page option: it only appears when there's more content than fits on the screen, such as a long webpage in Safari.
7. Wrong format for uploads: if a site rejects HEIF, go to Settings → General → Screen Capture and choose SDR so screenshots save as PNG.
8. Still stuck: restart your iPhone and try again. If the phone is frozen, use a hard reset.

Need a video instead of a still image? See how to screen record on iPhone.

If other things on your iPhone are misbehaving too—pairing issues, stuck audio—our guide on how to reset AirPods fixes most headphone problems. For Find My steps that come up while you are documenting a lost or handed-off phone, see how to turn off Find My iPhone.

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