I just found out about a convenient way of taking screenshots from the iPhone Simulator (which, incidentally, is also an iPad Simulator). Just run your application and when you get to the screen you need to save, press Control + Command + C. The ‘screenful’ will be copied to your clipboard. One easy option at this point is to start Preview, create a new file with the clipboard contents (Command + N), and save (Command + S). It couldn’t be any easier, and it spares you having to connect the device and taking shots from the Organizer.
As a side note, you could have discovered this shortcut yourself by opening the Edit menu in the Simulator and pressing the Control key. Moral of the story, it’s always worth spending some time checking an application’s menu with the Shift, Control, Option, or Command key pressed to see whether any ‘hidden’ shortcuts crop up…
Credits go to Federico Mestrone
The easiest method would be:
1) press cmd+shft+4
2) press spacebar
3) Click your iPad/iPhone siimulator window
Once you are done you will see a .png file of the simlator’s screenshot on your desktop.
Yes but that would include the phone, which means you need to photoshop before you can use them in the app store e.g.
Thanks very much,its wok fine
Thank’s a lot, very useful. I didn’t even know, that it’s possible to take screenshots from menu.
Well this will save me some time, thanks
In the simulator, cmd+S takes a screenshot and saves it to your desktop
nowadays you can indeed