Playing with Pervasive Code: Take an iPhone or iPad Screenshot from the Command-line

Thursday, 28 June 2012

Here's another tip using the great libimobiledevice library http://www.libimobiledevice.org/, originally built to manage iOS devices on Linux.

Taking app screenshots is a bit of a pain. We tend to do the following:

Using this method you can type a Terminal command, and have the screen appear directly on your computer. Much easier.

Here's how:

Connect your device, open up Terminal.app and type:

idevicescreenshot

It'll save a .TIFF file to the current directory. Easy!

Unknown9 February 2013 at 07:09
Do you know a method to do screenshots from iphone command line?

Thanks
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Anonymous25 March 2014 at 08:04
Cool beans ! This works great on my iOS 7 devices.

But on my iOS 6.1.6 device, I'm getting this error message: "Could not start screenshotr service! Remember that you have to mount the Developer disk image on your device if you want to use the screenshotr service."
And in the syslogs I'm seeing the following:
Mar 25 10:55:12 GinoPod-4 lockdownd[43] : 014c3000 spawn_and_handle_checkin: Could not spawn the com.apple.mobile.screenshotr service agent:InvalidService

Is there a simple resolution to this issue ?

Thanks :).
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Unknown15 May 2014 at 21:27
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Unknown17 April 2018 at 02:57
https://softwaretestinggarbage.blogspot.in/2012/10/iphone-app-test-cases.html?showComment=1523958976877#c9127480558024240901
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JassonKowal10 July 2018 at 23:59
The history of mobile phones begins with early efforts to develop radio telephone technology and from two-way radios in vehicles and continues through emergence of modern mobile phones and associated services.

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