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How to take a long screenshot

Short answer: a long screenshot is one image of content taller than the screen. On a PC or Mac take it in the browser, with FullPage Capture (free, one click) or the browser's built-in full page command; on iPhone tap Full Page after a Safari screenshot; on Android tap Capture more or Scroll capture.

A long screenshot is one picture of something taller than your screen: the whole of a web page, a chat, an article. Phones have a button for it; computers do not, and that is where most of the questions come from. This guide gives the way to do it on a Windows PC and a Mac first, then on iPhone and Android, and explains why long screenshots so often come out with repeated headers and missing images.

Updated September 28, 2026By the FullPage Capture team, the people who build the extension

What a long screenshot is

The tool scrolls the content, photographs each screen and stitches the pieces into one tall image. The same thing is called a scrolling screenshot, a full page screenshot, an extended screenshot, Capture more on a Pixel and Scroll capture on a Samsung. On a computer the content is almost always a web page, and the browser, not the operating system, is where the tools are.

On a Windows PC or a Mac, in the browser

Neither Windows nor macOS has a long screenshot shortcut; Win+Shift+S and Shift+Cmd+4 stop at the screen. The quickest route in Chrome, Edge, Brave or Arc is an extension. These steps are for FullPage Capture, which we make.

1. Install FullPage Capture in Chrome or EdgeFrom the Chrome Web Store or Edge Add-ons. Free, no account, no watermark. Works on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS.
2. Open the page and click the iconOr press Alt+Shift+K. The page scrolls by itself, screen by screen; sticky headers are kept once, images that load on scroll are waited for, panels that scroll inside the page are unrolled.
3. One long imageCopy it, annotate it, or save PNG, JPEG or a PDF, as one long page or in paper sizes with page breaks between lines.

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Without an extension: Edge has Web Capture (Ctrl+Shift+S, Capture full page); Chrome has Capture full size screenshot in DevTools (F12, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P); Firefox has right-click, Take Screenshot, Save full page; Safari on a Mac has File → Export as PDF. All four are fine for a plain article and stop at web apps and sticky headers. The browser-by-browser guide has each in detail.

Any window, not just the browser

To take a long screenshot of a chat app, a settings screen or a document viewer you need an app that scrolls the window itself: ShareX or PicPick (free) on Windows, Shottr (free) or CleanShot X (paid) on a Mac, Snagit (paid) on both. They stitch screen frames, so a header fixed inside the window can repeat; for web pages the extension gives a cleaner result because it works from inside the page.

On an iPhone or iPad

Take a screenshot in Safari (Side button and Volume up), tap the preview, choose Full Page at the top, then Done. It saves to Files as a PDF; recent iOS versions also offer Save to Photos as an image. It works in Safari and in some Apple apps such as Mail and Notes, not in third-party browsers. There is no scrolling capture of arbitrary apps on iOS.

On Android

Take a screenshot (Power and Volume down), then tap Capture more on a Pixel, or Scroll capture in the toolbar on a Samsung, and drag or tap until the capture reaches the end. Other makers put a similar option in the screenshot preview; a few do not have one. Chrome for Android also offers a long screenshot from Share → Screenshot on recent versions. Extensions do not run in mobile Chrome.

Why long screenshots come out wrong, and the fixes

• The header repeats down the image. Stitching tools photograph a fixed header on every screen. The extension captures it once and hides it for the rest; on a phone, scroll the header away before starting.
• Images are blank or grey. They load as you scroll and the capture was faster. The extension waits for each screen; with built-in tools, scroll to the bottom once first.
• The capture stops after one screen. The page does not scroll, a panel inside it does (Gmail, Notion, dashboards). The extension finds the real scroller; built-in tools do not.
• The image is huge or blurry. High-DPI screens capture at 2x; that is the sharp original. Export JPEG or downscale if the file is too large.
• The page is too long. Phones stop after a few screens; Chrome caps an image at 28,800 pixels a side, and the extension saves numbered parts beyond that.

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Related

• Scrolling screenshot, or long screenshot, of any web page in one clickA long screenshot of the whole page in Chrome or Edge on Windows, Mac, Linux and ChromeOS: sticky headers once, inner panels unrolled, lazy images waited for.
• How to take a scrolling screenshot on a MacShift+Cmd+4 stops at the screen. The ways to capture a whole web page on a Mac: Safari, Chrome and Edge, Firefox, and Mac apps for any window.
• How to screenshot a whole page on WindowsWin+Shift+S captures the screen, not the page. The ways to get a scrolling screenshot on Windows 11 and 10: Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Windows apps for any window.