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Scrolling and Full Page Screenshots on iPhone and Mac

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Yes, iPhone takes scrolling screenshots: tap Full Page, then save to Photos or as a PDF. Why the option goes missing, and how to capture full pages on Mac.

October 6, 20267 min read

Muhammed BasilFounder & maker of Pizazoo

Yes, you can take a scrolling screenshot on iPhone. Take a screenshot as usual, tap Full Page in the preview, and you get the whole page instead of just the screen, which you can save to Photos as one tall image or to Files as a PDF. It works in Safari and in other apps that support it, such as Notes and Mail, but not in every app.

Macs have no built-in scrolling screenshot. For a webpage, Safari, Firefox and Chrome can each capture the full page; for any other app, a capture app such as CleanShot X or Shottr scrolls the window for you. Details for both are below.

How do I take a full page screenshot on iPhone?

These steps follow Apple's iOS 27 guide and match iOS 26 (Apple, Apple, iOS 26):

Open the page you want, for example a webpage in Safari.
Press and release the side button and the volume up button at the same time. On an iPhone with a Home button, press the Home button and the side button.
In iOS 26 and iOS 27 the screenshot opens full screen. If you turned off Full-Screen Previews, tap the thumbnail in the lower-left corner before it disappears.
Tap Full Page. Drag your finger on the preview strip on the right to move through the whole page.
To keep only part of it, tap the Crop button and drag the handles. Tap the Markup button to draw or add text.
Tap Done at the top right, then choose Save to Photos for an image or Save PDF to Files for a PDF.

The two save choices are spelled out in Apple's iOS 26 guide. The iOS 27 guide keeps Full Page and the crop handles but only says to tap the button and choose an option, so wording on your screen may differ slightly.

On iPad it works the same way: press the top button and a volume button, tap the thumbnail, tap Full Page, and drag through the preview with a finger or Apple Pencil (Apple: iPad User Guide).

Can I save a full page screenshot as an image instead of a PDF?

Yes, on iOS 17 and later. Apple's iOS 16 guide offered only Save PDF to Files for a full-page screenshot (Apple, iOS 16). From iOS 17, the menu also has Save to Photos, which saves the page to your photo library (Apple, iOS 17), and the iOS 26 guide lists both as "Save as an image" and "Save a PDF." Many how-to articles still say Full Page can only become a PDF; that stopped being true with iOS 17.

One catch: iDownloadBlog notes that Save to Photos is not offered for very tall pages, notes, emails or PDFs. Save those as a PDF instead.

Combining several separate screenshots into one PDF is a different job, covered in how to combine screenshots into one PDF.

Which iPhone apps support Full Page screenshots?

Apple names only Safari as an example. Its iOS 16 guide described full-page capture of "a webpage, document, or email" (Apple, iOS 16). Beyond that:

Apple apps: Safari, Notes, Mail, PDFs opened in Files, and Maps, per iDownloadBlog.
Google Chrome: Chrome 92 added Full Page support in 2021 (9to5Google). iDownloadBlog's 2025 update still lists Chrome among apps that need a workaround, so check your version.
Other apps: only if the developer builds it in. Apple's developer framework has each app hand over a PDF version of its content when you take a screenshot (Apple Developer). That is why Full Page output starts life as a PDF, and why apps that skip this step show no Full Page option.

iDownloadBlog lists Messages, WhatsApp, Gmail, Facebook and YouTube among the apps that need a third-party tool.

Why is there no Full Page option on my iPhone?

Work through these in order:

The app does not support it. This is the usual reason in chat and social apps. Try the same content in Safari if it has a web version.
Everything fits on one screen. 9to5Mac notes the option appears only when there is more than one screen of content.
The preview closed. With Full-Screen Previews turned off, the thumbnail disappears after a few seconds and the screenshot saves as a normal one. Turn previews back on in Settings > General > Screen Capture > Full-Screen Previews (Apple).
Save to Photos is missing, but Full Page works. The page is very tall; save it as a PDF.

For apps without Full Page, a stitching app joins several overlapping screenshots into one long image. Picsew is a free download on the App Store that does this and requires iOS 16 or later.

Can you take a scrolling screenshot on a Mac?

Not with the built-in tools. In macOS 27 Golden Gate, as in macOS Tahoe 26, the Screenshot app (Shift-Command-5) captures the entire screen, a window or a portion of it, and records video; none of its options scrolls (Apple: Mac User Guide). For a webpage, use your browser. For any other app, use a capture app.

Method	What it captures	Output	Cost
Safari: File > Export as PDF	Webpages	One long PDF page	Free
Firefox: Save full page	Webpages	Image	Free
Chrome: Capture full size screenshot	Webpages	Image	Free
CleanShot X: Scrolling Capture	Any app that scrolls	Image	$35 one-time
Shottr: scrolling screenshot	Any app, any window	Image	Free to use, $12 license

Safari: Export as PDF

Choose File > Export as PDF, give it a name and save. Apple's current Safari guide does not document this command, so the behavior here comes from MakeUseOf and an Apple Community thread: it saves the page as one long strip, while View > Show Reader first, or File > Print then Save as PDF, splits it into separate pages. Print to PDF is the route Apple documents (Apple).

To turn that PDF into an image, open it in Preview, choose File > Export, and pick an image format such as PNG from the Format menu (Apple: Preview User Guide).

If parts of the page come out blank, the site probably loads content only as you scroll. In the same Apple Community thread, a responder explains that such pages do not draw content until you scroll to it, so scroll to the bottom first, then export.

Firefox: Save full page

Firefox has a screenshot tool built in. Right-click an empty part of the page and choose Take Screenshot (or press Command-Shift-S), then click Save full page at the top right (Mozilla).

Chrome: Capture full size screenshot

Chrome hides it in Developer Tools, but no coding is needed:

Press Command-Option-I, or click the three-dot menu to the right of the address bar and choose More Tools > Developer Tools (Chrome for Developers).
Press Command-Shift-P to open the Command Menu (Chrome for Developers).
Type screenshot and choose Capture full size screenshot, which includes the parts of the page outside the window (Chrome for Developers).

CleanShot X or Shottr: any app

For chats, long documents, code or anything outside a browser, you need a capture app:

CleanShot X has Scrolling Capture, which its developer says works in every app and supports both vertical and horizontal scrolling (CleanShot). It costs $35 one-time with a year of updates and needs macOS 13 or later (CleanShot).
Shottr takes scrolling screenshots of "a long web page or capture conversation in a chat. Any app, any window," per its site. It runs on macOS 10.15 or later, is free to use with occasional prompts to buy, and a $12 one-time license is required for commercial use (Shottr).

For the built-in Mac shortcuts these apps sit alongside, see how to screenshot on Mac, and for a Windows-style comparison, Snipping Tool for Mac.

How do I find long screenshots again later?

Disclosure: we make Pizazoo. Pizazoo does not take scrolling screenshots, but it helps once you have them. On Mac, it watches the folders CleanShot X, Shottr and macOS save to and makes the text inside screenshots searchable with on-device OCR, free on macOS 14 Sonoma or later (download). On iPhone and iPad, the free app sorts the screenshots in your photo library into categories and searches their text on your device.