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How to take screenshots of your iPhone or iPod Touch screen

iPhone iPod

Here’s another reader requested tutorial – how to take screenshots using your iPhone or iPod Touch (with the 2.0 firmware, non-jailbroken) and how to access them.

  1. With the 2.0 firmware, Apple has actually made it quite easy to take screenshots with your iPhone or iPod Touch. Just hold down the bottom button, and click the top one. Note: be sure to see the tip in step #5
  2. how to take a screenshot using the iphone or ipod touch
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  3. You’ll see the screen “flash” quickly – that means it has taken the screenshot.
  4. Click the Photos icon on your iPhone or iPod Touch and your Photo Albums will be listed.
  5. photo album section of the iphone or ipod touch
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  6. Select the Saved Photos album. All of your iPhone/iPod Touch screenshots are stored here.
  7. saved photos photo album section of the iphone or ipod touch
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  8. TIP: as soon as you ‘hold down’ the bottom button, you’ll return to your springboard (the ‘home’ screen). If you want to take a screenshot of an open program (or anything other than the springboard) you have to click quickly. Try clicking both buttons at the same time. I’ve found that to be the easiest way to get screenshots without returning to the springboard – like the ones in my brief review of Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D.

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  1. Thomas Murphy says

    Nice :)

  2. Keddyfish says

    How do I add the photo to my computer?

  3. kc7zja says

    Wow.. just discovered your site. Can’t believe it’s that simple. I like it !

  4. jon says

    how to we transfer the pictures we take on the ipod to our computers?

  5. andrew says

    bluetooth

  6. jon says

    how can you transfer pictures from an IPOD TOUCH to a MAC with bluetooth??? that makes absolutely no sense at all… and quite frankly my friend, you have issues you are obliged to attend to immediately if not sooner… so please, someone, anyone, answer my question with a significant and valid response.

    Thank You

  7. Ross McKillop says

    jon,

    Andrew probably meant iPhone.

    Ross

  8. sam says

    plug your ipod into your computer and iphotos should pop up saying it is ready to import photos and click import in the bottom right hand corner

  9. ZOombiiee says

    Pour la réponse de Keddyfish Normalement , si tu branche ton Ipod sur ton ordi il va tout de suite les importer .

    Merci du tuto .

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  11. JimmyD says

    One thing I don’t get, is why people read a English website and then post comments in their native language…. if you can read English, and you’re on a English website…. why not post your response in English? Then the creator of the page, and everyone viewing it, can see what you had to say. We’ll never know now what “ZOombiiee” or “Won Konw” said, or, at least, I wont.

  12. Ross McKillop says

    JimmyD -

    Actually, the translation plugin I’m using (see top of the sidebar, right above the “RSS” icon) auto-translates all the pages on this site into multiple languages, and then Google indexes them. So the person coming to this site, probably came via a search in their own language, and the article they read was in their own language (or at least a machine translated version, which isn’t always perfect by any means). So they leave comments in their own language, assuming the blog is actually IN that language.

    Hope this helps clear things up (and I do use babelfish to translate some of the comments and then use it to try and respond).

    Ross

  13. Mary says

    This is really cool–I just tried it with my iPod touch!
    Thanks so much for sharing
    xMary

  14. Jeanna says

    I tired it a million times and it dosent work!!
    Does it need to be a second gen. ipod to work!?

  15. Frizz says

    Merci, mais comment on fait pour désactiver le fait que l’iPod prend des captures d’écran? Je n’y arrive pas.

  16. Alex says

    Dude
    I love you
    This is amazing

  17. steve-o says

    ok i like the screen shot thing but i have a touch and it keeps going into the screenshot mode and it wont come back out any tips?

  18. Elise says

    Hi, I am actually on my itouch but it is the newest version. I was wondering if there is a different way beacuse it doesn’t work on this iPod. Thanks.

  19. Antonio Cuevas says

    Gracias por la información. Bastante útil.

    Saludos desde la Ciudad de México.

  20. Syd says

    Instead of trying to hit both buttons at the same time just hold the home button down while you click the sleep/wake button. It will take the screen shot and once you let go of the buttons you aren’t taken back to the main screen which you are trying to avoid.

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