How to Take Screenshots on iOS 26: iPhone & iPad Guide

Taking Screenshots with Physical Buttons

• 📸 Press the power and volume up buttons simultaneously to capture your screen on iOS 26 devices.
• ✏️ After capture, you can immediately crop, edit, draw, or adjust opacity and thickness of your annotations.
• 💾 Choose to save to Photos, Files, QuickNote, copy to clipboard and delete, or delete the screenshot entirely.

Utilizing AssistiveTouch for Screenshots

• ⚙️ Navigate to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch and enable it.
• 👆 Customize the single tap action for the AssistiveTouch menu to 'Screenshot'.
• 🖱️ A small, often barely visible, button will appear on screen; tapping it captures the screenshot.
• 🎛️ The idle opacity of the AssistiveTouch button can be adjusted for better visibility.
• 🔒 The AssistiveTouch menu can be hidden by triple-clicking the side button (requires enabling Accessibility Shortcut).

Leveraging Back Tap for Quick Captures

• 👆 Enable Back Tap in Settings and assign 'Screenshot' to a double or triple tap on the back of your device.
• 📍 Tapping near the top of the back of the device increases the likelihood of the gesture being recognized.
• ✅ A double tap on the back of the iPhone successfully captures the screen.