When you quickly need to capture something on your phone’s display—a high score, a meme, an address—a screenshot is often the best way to do it.
You can modify this behavior on both Android and iOS with the built-in screenshot tools, giving you what's known as a long screenshot or a scrolling screenshot.
Scrolling Screenshots on AndroidTap Capture more at the bottom of the screen to extend a screenshot on a Pixel phone.
Tap Save, and the long screenshot is saved to your gallery, just like a standard screenshot.
Different Android devices work in slightly different ways, so some trial and error may be required.
When you quickly need to capture something on your phone’s display—a high score, a meme, an address—a screenshot is often the best way to do it. By default though, you'll only get what's showing on the display at that moment, so any part of a webpage or document that isn't shown won't be captured.
You can modify this behavior on both Android and iOS with the built-in screenshot tools, giving you what's known as a long screenshot or a scrolling screenshot. It's not quite as easy to do on Windows and macOS, but there are ways of doing it, as we'll explain here.
Scrolling Screenshots on Android
Tap Capture more at the bottom of the screen to extend a screenshot on a Pixel phone. Courtesy of David Nield
If you're using a Pixel phone, the screenshot button combination is Power+Volume Down: Press these two buttons together and a screenshot will be taken, with a small thumbnail of the captured image showing up in the lower left corner.
If you're looking at something that stretches off the screen—so primarily webpages, but also documents or conversation threads in messaging apps—the thumbnail will be accompanied by a Capture more button.
Tap this button to take a scrolling screenshot: You'll see a preview of the entire webpage (or document, or whatever it is) appear, and you can then adjust the handles around the edges to determine how much of it you want to save. To capture everything, drag the handles to the very top and very bottom. Tap Save, and the long screenshot is saved to your gallery, just like a standard screenshot.
Different Android devices work in slightly different ways, so some trial and error may be required. On Samsung Galaxy phones, again it's the Power+Volume Down button combination, but this time—as long as you're looking at content that extends beyond the screen borders—you'll see two small, downward-pointing arrows just to the right of the thumbnail that pops up.
