Tip: taking screenshots under iPhone OS 2.0

Posted 10 July 2008 @ 1pm in Guides/How-Tos

Here’s an interesting, undocumented feature in iPhone OS 2.0 that was discovered by iPhone Atlas reader Joe: you can take a device screenshot by pressing the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons simultaneously. The screen will momentarily flash, and the iPhone’s current screen contents will be saved to the Camera Roll.

For iPhone OS 2.0 installation instructions, see our previous coverage.

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5 Comments

Posted by hoffernator
10 July 2008 @ 1pm

I believe it was documented…but was originally going to be vibrate/home

Posted by bernie90210
10 July 2008 @ 3pm

This is a feature that can easily be enabled in 1.1.4 through a .plist file.

Posted by seika7
11 July 2008 @ 11am

Does that .plist mod for 1.1.4 require the iPhone to be jailbroken?

Posted by joker_jh_dotmac
12 July 2008 @ 7am

works with Ipod Touch too.

Posted by Elmo151
13 July 2008 @ 11am

very handy; didn’t know it was there.

thank you

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