Ever wanted to take a screenshot of a long article on any website? Prior to iOS 12, your best option was to take multiple screenshots and use another app to stitch them together. With iOS 13, you can easily capture an entire web page as long as you use Safari. We’ve seen long screenshots on some versions of Android, but this is a new feature for iPhone and iPad, and you should take full advantage of it.
There are some limitations to implementing long screenshots on iOS. First, you can’t use it anywhere but Safari – it doesn’t work with other browsers like Chrome or Firefox, or other apps like WhatsApp. Second, the built-in long screenshot tool only saves these screenshots as PDFs in the Files app, not as images in the Photos app. We will also propose workarounds for these limitations. Read on to learn how to take a full-page screenshot on Safari in iOS 13.
How to take a full-page screenshot in Safari
As long as you’re using iOS 13, follow the steps below to take a long screenshot on Safari.
1. open hunting tripand then launch any website, such as gadgets360.com.
2. Now take a screenshot. If you have an iPhone with Face ID, you can press Volume plus + side keys. If you have an iPhone with Touch ID, you can take a screenshot by pressing Home button + power button.
3. After capturing the screenshot, the preview will stay for a few seconds. tap Preview.
4. On the next screen you will notice the share icon on the top right corner and use the share sheet to share the file with any application or person you want. If you want to save this content, click full page The tab is at the top, next to Screen, and select complete.
5. Click now Save PDF to file. Then you can choose i cloud disk Store screenshots in the cloud or on my iPhone (or on my iPad) to store it locally on the device. You can also save this file to any other third-party cloud storage service set up in the Files app (e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).
It covers the basics of taking long screenshots of websites opened in Safari on iOS devices.
If you haven’t installed iOS 13 yet, or you want to take long screenshots on other apps, there are a few workarounds to make this work. If the above method doesn’t work for you, you can try the following method.
1. The first method is very simple – just record the screen on your iPhone or iPad and scroll to the bottom to capture a longer chat or web page. This works for almost all apps, except some that disable screen recording.
2. Siri Shortcuts are another way to get work done, so you can try the following Siri Shortcuts to see if it works for you: Web Scrolling Screenshot, Long Screenshot Stitcher, Combined iMessage or Combined WhatsApp. We weren’t able to test these due to iOS 13 bugs, but these have worked for others on the internet with varying degrees of success.
3. Third-party apps like PicSew (Rs. 9) or Tailor (Free, Rs. 249 without ads) also allow you to stitch a bunch of screenshots together to create a long screenshot.
Can you take long screenshots on iOS 13? Let us know in the comments.
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