MacDailyNews reader “Jon” reminds us that Apple’s new 2.0 firmware for iPhone and iPod touch includes a built-in screenshot capability.
To take screenshots on your iPod touch or iPhone with 2.0 installed, just hold down the “Home” button on the front of the iPhone, and press the “On/Off “button at the top of your iPod touch or iPhone (it also works vice versa, hold down either button and briefly press the other).
Your display will flash white (like a camera flash) and the screenshot will appear automatically in “Photos” (in the “Camera Roll” Photo Album). This method will grab anything: a still from moving video, your home page(s), even an image from your iPhone’s Camera (same as snapping a photo).
MacDailyNews Note: You can also save images in your Safari browser by pressing on any image for two seconds which will bring up a menu with the “Save Image” option. These images also get saved to “Photos.”
But copy and paste is too difficult to include.
Great tip!!!
I read about this the day 2.0 came out and tried it out. It’s great!!!!
copy and paste is coming Dave…it’s just not high on the priority list right now
The funny thing is, if you got a dragster that went 300 miles an hour and included a grill where you could make pancakes you’d likely complain that it needed cupholder.
This is not to diminish the importance of cupholders. Cars have had cupholders for years. Cupholders are very useful. It’s a BASIC item for goodness sake… but think about it Dave…it’s a DRAGSTER! They’ll get to the cupholder soon enough
But copy and paste is too difficult to include.
Really, come on Apple. And how about turn by turn directions for the GPS?
Jesus H. Christmas, these simple things is what could have sold 3 million iPhone 2’s instead of just a paltry 1 million.
Oh yea, how about having some FSCKING INVENTORY on hand??
Apple really shot themselves in the foot this time. No wonder the stock is tanking.
iPhone 1.0 – too much inventory before release, took forever to get rid of it. Lousy features.
iPhone 2.0 – didn’t answer the needs people have, still no removable battery, insufficient inventory before release.
Steve Jobs must be sick, because he wouldn’t allow this crap to go on.
MDN word “center”. Obama is leaning more right of center everyday. Heck I caught fish that flopped less than he does.
Great!
Now, every time I visit wickedweasel.com, I can claim I was was there in the flesh!
Apple never said that copy & paste was too difficult. They deemed it “low priority.” ‘Cause it was of higher importance to design a way to take screenshots. I mean everywhere you turned, you heard some iPhone owner complain about the lack of screenshots. That iPhone feedback inbox must have been filled with requests for screenshots.
See? that what I like of Apple products, they promises you two or 3 tricks,, and they deliver hundreds. But with microcrap, they promises dozens, and deliver 1 or 2 and they work with a lot of problems.
@RavingMacHead
I don’t think I would want you to be running Apple.
Can you not make your points using moderate language?
Was I crazy, or don’t I remember a SEARCH function seen in the 2.0 demo?
Like, searching a for a name in email or a long webpage.
I have yet come acc this fcn in 2.0
That was Contacts search, JB.
I can’t get screen shots to work correctly on my PC, and Apple managed to make a pocket Mac do it. Wow, MS sucks again!
Dear Raving, I’m hoping your post was sarcasm but if not…
You wrote
“Really, come on Apple. And how about turn by turn directions for the GPS?”
How brain dead do you need to be to get where to turn? I’m guessing that this will be added in an update soon enough for those mentally challenged enough to need it.
you wrote:
“Jesus H. Christmas, these simple things is what could have sold 3 million iPhone 2’s instead of just a paltry 1 million.”
in THREE days…
You wrote:
“Oh yea, how about having some FSCKING INVENTORY on hand??
Apple really shot themselves in the foot this time. No wonder the stock is tanking.”
The availability of product has NOTHING to do with stock prices since the market is about future PROFIT from the stock either going up OR down.
you wrote:
“iPhone 1.0 – too much inventory before release, took forever to get rid of it. Lousy features.
iPhone 2.0 – didn’t answer the needs people have, still no removable battery, insufficient inventory before release.”
The product that completely changed the cellular phone industry and STILL has no true equal is now essentially sold out. It’s feature list is still head and shoulders above any other phone and just got an update.
2.0 answers more needs than any other cellphone in ways that no other phone even comes close to matching…and removable batteries fill up landfills. The new version also has numerous INTERNAL changes (battery access, screen separate from glass) that will make servicing them easier and faster. Supply and demand normally dictates price but Apple actually helps people by keeping the price low even though millions of people are clamoring for the product. If you don’t want one…why would you care if it wasn’t available?
Turn by turn GPS amuses me;
1) If you’re looking at a hand held device while driving, you should have your license revoked
2) If you require it while you’re walking, you’re patently brain dead
Geez friggin’ Louise, even the cell tower triangulation method put you within 150 ft (roughly the length of 10 American made cars), and if you can’t discern your whereabouts when you’re in easy eyesight of your destination, please refer to #1 and #2 above.
iPhone reviewers, iPhone bloggers, and iPhone how-to book authors most certainly did scream for a way to take screenshots.
And if you think snapping a picture of the screen is just as much work as creating and implementing a global clipboard, you’ve never developed software.
I agree. The built-in GPS tracking feature is more than sufficient for navigation. Anybody who can’t follow a glowing dot on the map as it follows a highlighted route is a complete idiot. In fact, I much prefer it to the “turn left in 50 meters” voice commands of devices like the Tom Tom.
You look at the map, you see the glowing dot moving along your highlighted route, you see the highlighted route makes a left turn on Meadow Ave, so you turn left on Meadow Ave. Do you really need to be told “Turn left on meadow ave” like a kindergardener?
These are the same people who are bitching the the iPhone doesn’t chew their food and wipe their asses for them.
Here’s what I don’t get about voiced turn-by-turn GPS navigation on the iphone. All that’s needed is a text-to-speech synthesizer, which is technology that’s already built into OSX. Everything else is already there.
The Google Maps app already gives you turn-by-turn directions which are text-based. The GPS tracking feature of the Google Maps app already follows you along your highlighted route. How hard would it be for Apple to include some text-to-speech synthesizer to read the google turn-by-turn navigation directions aloud? I’m sure this is coming soon, it just didn’t make the 2.0 cut.
I can see it now – friends with iPhones sending me screen shots of their favorite scenes from the porn that they have on them.
I agree with those above trying to mod down Raving MacHead. He’s rude. It’s kind of like having Jim Cramer here. Hardly a comforting thought.
Also, to those of you screaming for turn-by-turn navigation, keep your pants on. Rumor has it that Tom-Tom, Magellan and Garmin are at work on this for the iPhone.
All this pedantic yelling makes my brain hurt. The new iPhone has been out for little more than a week, and you children are screaming at the top of your lungs. Enough already.
Don’t worry. It’s coming. Fast forward a few months and you’ll wonder why you had your shorts in a knot. There are bigger things in life. For example: consider going outside. There’s this amazing phenomenon outside my window called the Sun. You should check it out sometime. It’s really great. This is all part of something called “getting a life”, something that I highly recommend. Oh, and please cut down on the sugar and caffeine. It might sooth away that hyperactvity and ADD.
Have a nice day.
@the gooch
Wanna pay a higher price for your Iphone? Don’t you think there might be licensing fees involved in that? I heard that one of the GPS makers are already coming out with an app to do that.
But Apple already has text-to-speech synthesizer technology built into OS X. Why would it charge itself licensing fees? How hard would it be for Apple to use this technology to read the Google turn-by-turn directions aloud and make everyone happy?
So does that mean we are getting cup holders on the iPhone?
I don’t need turn by turn instructions. I can read a map.
I can’t wait.
Ah… wouldn’t that be a right click to bring up the capture menu…??