What screenshot sizes does the App Store require?
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Short answer
An iPhone app needs one set at the 6.9-inch size: 1290 × 2796, 1320 × 2868 or 1260 × 2736 pixels portrait1 (source 1). An iPad app needs a 13-inch set at 2064 × 2752 or 2048 × 2732. Every other display size is optional, because Apple scales your largest set down for smaller devices. You may upload one to ten screenshots per localisation, as PNG or JPEG, with no transparency and no alpha channel.
Key points
- One iPhone size is genuinely required, not six. Design the 6.9-inch set and stop.
- The 6.5-inch sizes — 1284 × 2778 and 1242 × 2688 — are required only if you do not supply a 6.9-inch set1 (source 1). Supplying both is allowed but not necessary.
- iPad is a separate obligation. If your app runs on iPad, a 13-inch set is required in addition to the iPhone set.
- Transparency is the most common silent rejection: PNGs with an alpha channel are not accepted1 (source 1).
- These numbers change when Apple ships a new flagship display. This page records the date it was checked; treat Apple’s own table as authoritative if the two ever disagree.
What is actually required
Apple lists a long table of display classes, and most of it is optional. Only two entries carry a real obligation, and which ones depend on the devices your app runs on.
| Display class | Required? | Accepted portrait sizes |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone 6.9″ | Yes, if the app runs on iPhone | 1260 × 2736, 1290 × 2796, 1320 × 2868 |
| iPhone 6.5″ | Only if no 6.9″ set is provided | 1284 × 2778, 1242 × 2688 |
| iPhone 6.3″ | No | 1179 × 2556, 1206 × 2622 |
| iPhone 6.1″ | No | 1170 × 2532, 1125 × 2436, 1080 × 2340 |
| iPhone 5.5″ and older | No | 1242 × 2208, 750 × 1334, and smaller legacy sizes |
| iPad 13″ | Yes, if the app runs on iPad | 2064 × 2752, 2048 × 2732 |
| iPad 11″ | No | 1488 × 2266, 1668 × 2420, 1668 × 2388, 1640 × 2360 |
Landscape screenshots use the same numbers with the axes swapped — 2796 × 1290 rather than 1290 × 2796. Landscape is never required on its own; it is an alternative orientation for the same display class.
What Apple does when a size is missing
This is the part that turns a table of twenty numbers into a single deliverable. Apple states that when screenshots for a display size are absent, it uses scaled versions of the set from the next size up1 (source 1).
So one 6.9-inch set covers every smaller iPhone automatically. Designing separate sets for 6.5, 6.3 and 6.1 inch buys you pixel-exact control on those devices, and costs you four times the work every time your marketing copy changes. For most apps that trade is not worth taking.
The file rules that get uploads rejected
- Format:
.png,.jpgor.jpeg. - No transparency: images may not carry an alpha channel. Exporting a PNG from a design tool with a transparent background is the usual cause.
- Count: between one and ten screenshots per localisation.
- Exact dimensions: the pixel size must match one of the accepted values. A screenshot that is one pixel off is not resized for you.
The count is per localisation, which is worth reading twice: ten English screenshots and ten German ones are twenty uploads, and each language you add multiplies the work of every future copy change.
Which single size to design at
Design at a 6.9-inch portrait size and let Apple scale. Among the three accepted values, 1290 × 2796 is the practical default: it is the native resolution of several current Pro Max and Plus devices, so raw captures from those simulators land at exactly that size with no resampling.
- Capture raw screens at 1290 × 2796 from a matching simulator or device.
- Build the marketing set on artboards of the same size, so nothing is resampled twice.
- Export as PNG without an alpha channel.
- Upload one set per localisation, and add an iPad set if the app runs on iPad.
Shotluma exports at 1290 × 2796 and 1242 × 2688, which covers the required 6.9-inch class and the 6.5-inch fallback. It does not currently export iPad sizes, so an iPad app still needs its 13-inch set produced elsewhere.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a separate set for every iPhone size?
No. A 6.9-inch set is enough for iPhone, because Apple scales it down for smaller displays1 (source 1). Extra sets are an option, not an obligation.
Can I reuse my iPhone screenshots for iPad?
No. iPad is a separate required set at its own dimensions, and the aspect ratio differs enough that a stretched iPhone set looks wrong even where it is accepted.
Is 1290 × 2796 still valid, or has 1320 × 2868 replaced it?
Both are valid. Apple lists 1260 × 2736, 1290 × 2796 and 1320 × 2868 as accepted portrait sizes for the 6.9-inch class1 (source 1); any one of them satisfies the requirement.
Do these sizes work for Google Play too?
No. Google Play rejects a screenshot whose long side is more than twice its short side, and 1290 × 2796 has a ratio of about 1:2.17. Play needs its own set, typically 1080 × 1920.
How often do these numbers change?
Apple adds a display class when it ships hardware with a new screen, and the required class follows the newest flagship. Re-check the specification before a release rather than trusting a guide — including this one.
Sources
- 1Screenshot specifications — App Store Connect Help — Apple Developer, iPhone and iPad display size tables. Read .