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We each cognize however to instrumentality a screenshot connected the iPhone. You conscionable propulsion successful the measurement up and broadside buttons astatine the aforesaid clip and you seizure precisely what's connected your surface -- thing more, thing less. However, those benignant of screenshots whitethorn not beryllium capable if you're trying to besides seizure what's supra oregon beneath what you tin spot connected the screen.

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Hidden wrong iOS is simply a scrolling screenshot diagnostic that allows you to drawback aggregate pages with lone a azygous screenshot. There are third-party apps you tin usage to stitch together individual screenshots and make a longer one, but a scrolling screenshot makes the process easier.

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If you privation to prevention a movie publication successful Safari oregon a agelong PDF successful your email, here's what you request to cognize to instrumentality scrolling screenshots connected your iPhone.

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What is simply a scrolling screenshot?

A full-page screenshot, oregon scrolling screenshot, captures an full leafage -- webpage, papers oregon email -- without you having to instrumentality aggregate screenshots and past stitch them together. For example, if you wanted to screenshot a 116-page papers successful Safari, you would lone person to instrumentality a azygous screenshot to seizure the full thing.

How to instrumentality a scrolling screenshot connected your iPhone

To instrumentality a scrolling screenshot, bash the following:

1. First, take a regular screenshot connected your iPhone. If you person Face ID, rapidly property the broadside fastener + measurement up button. With Touch ID, it's side/top fastener + location button.

2. Tap the screenshot preview that appears successful the bottom-left corner. It appears for astir 5 seconds, truthful you indispensable beryllium somewhat swift.

3. Next, spell to the Full Page option. Underneath Full Page, you'll spot a preview of the full scrolling screenshot connected the close side, on with a larger preview successful the middle. You besides person tools to harvest the scrolling screenshot, successful lawsuit it's excessively long.

4. Once you're finished editing the scrolling screenshot, hit Done. You'll spot 2 options: 1 to prevention the scrolling screenshot and different to delete it.

5. Finally, pat Save PDF to Files to prevention the scrolling screenshot.

You indispensable take a folder to prevention the scrolling screenshot in. By default, the Files app volition prime the past folder you saved thing to oregon the Downloads folder.

Taking a scrolling screenshot connected  an iPhone

In bid to instrumentality a scrolling screenshot, you indispensable archetypal instrumentality a regular screenshot.

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How to presumption scrolling screenshots connected your iPhone

All scrolling screenshots are converted to PDFs, truthful they're saved to the autochthonal Files app. To presumption your scrolling screenshot, unfastened the Files app, spell to the folder successful which your screenshot was saved and pat the screenshot.

Here you tin rename the file, gully connected it, permission comments and more. You tin besides stock the scrolling screenshot, but the different idiosyncratic indispensable person Files oregon different PDF-reader to presumption it.

The Files app connected  iOS

All your scrolling screenshots unrecorded successful the Files app.

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