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iPhone 101: Taking screenshots
With the advent of the new iPhone firmware 2.0, users who have installed it report that you are now able to easily take and share screenshots of your iPhone -- all without downloading any additional software. To take a screenshot, just hold down the home button while quickly pressing the sleep/wake button at the top of the phone. The screen will flash and an image will be saved in your Camera Roll. You can easily share your screenshot by e-mailing it using the share option in the Photos app.
For more iPhone tips and tricks like this, check out the iPhone 101 section here on TUAW.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Sean R said 2:07PM on 7-10-2008
That is freakn' spiffy!
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BrainTrust said 2:09PM on 7-10-2008
Is there ToDo integration with iCal now? Or did that never happen? And if it didn't, why? Is there some technical reason why iCal on my Mac can have ToDos but iCal on iPhone cant?
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Jake Pollack said 2:09PM on 7-10-2008
...previously a jailbreak application. Did it come preloaded with 2.0?
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Aron T said 2:30PM on 7-10-2008
It's actually a Springboard property that disabled by default in previous OS versions. It was possible to enable this and make use of it. I wonder if Apple left this "on" accidentally - that'd be funny...
Brian said 2:12PM on 7-10-2008
will this work on the iPod Touch, or is there not an iPod Touch with the 2.0 software yet?
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OmniGeno said 2:23PM on 7-10-2008
Yeah, that's what I want to know.
Emanuele Vulcano said 2:12PM on 7-10-2008
It is much easier if you hold the Sleep/Wake button FIRST and then tap Home, or the app might "feel" the Home button being pressed and be forced to quit.
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Jake Pollack said 2:18PM on 7-10-2008
but if you hold the sleep wake button it could hold to power off and such. I think it could go either way.
Emanuele Vulcano said 3:08PM on 7-10-2008
Only if you hold it for a *long* time, unlike the Home button.
Eric said 2:14PM on 7-10-2008
2.0 hasn't been released for iPod touch yet...
There's also no photo roll on the iPod touch, so they'd have to put the snapshot in a special album in the Photos menu.
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Jake Pollack said 2:28PM on 7-10-2008
Yep that was a problem in the jailbreak community until they made an app called "Touch Roll" lol.
mark said 2:21PM on 7-10-2008
Nice, one less tutorial I have to write.
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Erik said 2:40PM on 7-10-2008
Hmmm. Screen shots I take don't appear in my Photos. :(
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Tannerozzy said 2:36PM on 7-10-2008
amazing tip! thanks cory!
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ainsophaur said 2:50PM on 7-10-2008
I went ahead and installed and haven't had any problems yet. However, one of my friends who works at an Apple Store has said that a few people have already started filtering into the Genius bar with iPhones that are crashing since installing the update.
Just a heads up!
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ainsophaur said 3:00PM on 7-10-2008
Works for me! Great tip!
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Loiselle said 7:15PM on 7-10-2008
Works great...
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bill holz said 8:55PM on 7-16-2008
I liked your screen shots, In version 1, users were allowed
only 9 pages which I soon filled up, plus using some from address book URL's and Mock Dock I was able to add more but I would like additional screen pages. Does any one know if we will get more pages in version 2 for our APPS?
Thanks.
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Eric said 11:08PM on 7-10-2008
Ha ha! That's cool! It worked, not sure why the average person would want to do this. But most of us don't consider ourselves average. Great tip anyway.
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Justin said 5:17AM on 7-14-2008
I tried it on my iPod Touch, which has the 2.0 software. It works! The screenshots are saved under a Saved Photos album inside the Photo app.
I also found out that after you take screenshots and you connect your Touch to the computer, iPhoto will load. You can then import your photos from the Touch.
I've got some screenshots and details on my blog post here - http://www.shinywhitegadgets.com/2008/07/ipod-touch-tip-how-to-take-screenshots.html
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