App Store screenshot sizes: iPhone, iPad and Google Play

Apple's required sizes

Apple's screenshot specifications ask for at least one screenshot for iPhone with Dynamic Island at the medium display size, 1179 by 2556 or 1206 by 2622 pixels in portrait, and at least one for the iPad 13 inch display, 2064 by 2752 or 2048 by 2732, if the app supports iPad. Larger iPhone sizes such as 1290 by 2796 and 1320 by 2868 are accepted and scaled when absent. Each device size takes up to 10 screenshots in .jpeg, .jpg or .png, and images cannot include alpha channels or transparency. When the interface is the same across sizes, the largest set can be uploaded and App Store Connect scales it down.

Google Play's rules

Google Play's preview asset guide says screenshots must be between 320 and 3840 pixels on each side, with the long side no more than twice the short side. To be eligible for promotion an app needs at least four screenshots of at least 1080 pixels: 1920 by 1080 or more in 16:9 landscape, or 1080 by 1920 or more in 9:16 portrait. Each device type, phones, tablets and others, takes up to 8 screenshots. A feature graphic of 1024 by 500 pixels is required to publish the listing.

Designing screenshots that sell

Most store screenshots are not raw captures but framed images: a short headline at the top, a real screen from the app below, sometimes inside a device frame. The first two or three are seen in search results without tapping, so they should show the main task the app does, not the login screen. Keep headlines to a few words, use the same style across every image, and update them when the app's interface changes so they never show an old design. Apple's specifications say every screenshot must adhere to the App Store Review Guidelines.

Common mistakes

The first is uploading at a size from an older phone that the store no longer accepts. The second is PNG files with transparency, which Apple rejects. The third is screenshots that show placeholder data, empty states or test accounts. The fourth is landscape and portrait mixed in one set, which looks untidy in the store. The fifth is forgetting the iPad set for an app that runs on iPad, which blocks submission.

Screenshots for apps made in Sites

Sites can generate a phone app as an Expo project and run Android or iPhone test and store builds, 5 credits each on paid plans; iPhone builds need the owner's Apple key. OneCraft does not submit apps to the stores: the owner submits from their own App Store and Google Play accounts and prepares the screenshots there. There is no screenshot canvas in the product, so capture screens from the test build, then resize them to the exact store sizes with the image resizer. The blank PNG above is 1290 by 2796 pixels, an accepted large iPhone size, for framing screenshots in another tool.

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