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Thursday, 28 June 2012

Take an iPhone or iPad Screenshot from the Command-line


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:

  • Run the app
  • Press Home+Power together to take a photo,
  • Go to the photo library
  • Find the photos
  • Email them to ourselves.

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!