In the Chrome app on a phone, you take a screenshot with the device’s own buttons:
- Android: press the Power and Volume down buttons at the same time.
- iPhone without a Home button: quickly press and release the side button and the volume up button together.
- iPhone with a Home button: quickly press and release the Home button and the side button together.
Android can also capture a long web page beyond the bottom of the screen, and iPhone may offer a Full Page option. The steps are below. Using a computer instead? See How to take a screenshot in Chrome.
Android
These steps are from Google’s Android help, Take a screenshot or record your screen on your Android device.
- Open the page in Chrome.
- Press the Power and Volume down buttons at the same time. If that does nothing, press and hold the Power button for a few seconds, then tap Screenshot.
- A preview of the screenshot appears at the bottom left.
If neither button combination works, your phone maker’s support site has the steps for your model.
Capture a whole page (scrolling screenshot)
On Android 12 and up, Google’s help describes a scrolling screenshot that works on most screens you can scroll, such as a long web page:
- Press the Power and Volume down buttons at the same time.
- At the bottom, tap Capture more.
- Use the crop guidelines to choose how much of the page to keep.
To find your screenshots, open the Photos app and tap Collections > On this device > Screenshots. Phones without Google Photos keep them in the Gallery app’s Screenshots folder.
iPhone
From Apple’s guide Take a screenshot on iPhone:
- Open the page in Chrome.
- Press the buttons for your model (listed at the top of this page).
- A thumbnail appears at the lower left. Tap it to crop, mark up or share the screenshot, or leave it and it saves on its own.
Capture a whole page
When you tap the thumbnail, Apple’s editor shows a Full Page option for content longer than the screen. Apple’s example is a web page in Safari. If Full Page appears while you are in Chrome, tap it, then drag your finger on the preview on the right to see more of the capture. If it does not appear, take several screenshots as you scroll, or open the page on a computer and use Chrome’s full-page screenshot tool.
Screenshots are saved to the Photos app. Go to Collections, scroll down to Media Types, then tap Screenshots.
Other things people look for
- A video of your phone screen: both Android and iPhone have a built-in screen recorder. The steps are in How to record your screen in Chrome.
- A Chromebook: see How to screenshot on a Chromebook.
- Don’t have Chrome on your phone yet? Get it for Android or iPhone.