How to Take a Screenshot on iPad, With or Without Apple Pencil

Taking a screenshot is one of the easiest ways to grab information from your iPad in most apps. iPadOS makes it easy to quickly capture and save, or share with friends, a snapshot of anything on your iPad. So let's clear up how to take a screenshot on iPad and how to take a screenshot with Apple Pencil.

How Do You Take a Screenshot on an iPad Without a Home Button?

Taking a screenshot works slightly differently depending on your iPad model.

• Make sure whatever you want to capture is displayed the way you want it on your iPad.
• Press the top button and one of the volume buttons at the same time.
• Your iPad screen will flash briefly, and a small thumbnail preview of your screenshot will appear in the bottom-left corner of your screen.
• After a few seconds, the thumbnail preview of the screenshot will disappear, or you can swipe it off the edge of the screen to dismiss it manually. Either way, the image will automatically be saved to your Photos app.

How Do You Take a Screenshot If Your iPad Has a Home Button?

• Make sure whatever you want to capture is displayed the way you want it on your iPad.
• Press the top button and the Home button at the same time.
• After successfully capturing a screenshot, your iPad screen will flash and a small thumbnail preview of your screenshot will appear in the bottom-left corner of your screen. As with newer iPads, assuming your iPad isn't on silent mode, you'll also get a camera-like shutter sound as confirmation.
• Wait for the screenshot thumbnail to disappear, or swipe it off the edge of the screen to dismiss it manually. The image, saved to your photo library, will appear in the Photos app.

iPad Screenshot Shortcut 2023

• Open the Settings app.
• Select Accessibility.
• Select Touch.
• Select AssistiveTouch.
• Turn on AssistiveTouch.
• Select Double-Tap.
• Select Screenshot.
• Swipe up or press the Home button to return to the Home Screen.
• Once you find a screen you want to save an image of, double-tap the AssistiveTouch button.
• A thumbnail of the screenshot will appear in the bottom-left corner of the screen. After a few seconds, it will disappear, and the screenshot will automatically be saved to your photo library.

Taking a Screenshot with Apple Pencil in 2023

• Swipe your Apple Pencil from the bottom-left corner of your screen toward the center.
• The bottom-left corner is the default setting, alongside the bottom-right swipe used for the Quick Note feature. This can be changed in the iPad Settings app under Apple Pencil > Pencil Gestures.
• You'll see and hear the same flash and shutter sound that happens when taking a screenshot with the buttons. However, using Apple Pencil takes you directly to the editing and markup screen.
• Make any edits or markup you want on your screenshot.
• Select Done in the top-left corner to save the screenshot. You can use the Share button in the top-right corner to share your screenshot.