Reference
App Store screenshot sizes (2026)
Last verified against Apple's App Store Connect screenshot specifications.
The rules that apply to every screenshot
- 1–10 screenshots per display size, per localization. The first 1–3 appear in App Store search results, depending on orientation, and only when the listing has no app preview video.
- JPEG or PNG only — no alpha channel or transparency. Transparent pixels cause upload rejection.
- Exact pixel dimensions. App Store Connect rejects anything that isn’t precisely one of the accepted sizes for that display class.
- Scaling fallbacks follow a fixed chain, not simply “the nearest larger size”. Apple names a source class on each display block — see the tables below.
- Apple Watch is stricter: pick one of the six Watch sizes and use it consistently across every localization of the app. That one is Apple’s wording, not ours.
Measured: the size your screenshot is actually read at
The dimensions above are what you upload, not what anyone sees. We loaded App Store product pages at three window widths and read the rendered box directly: a 1320 px file draws at 220 CSS px on a 1280-wide desktop window and 144 px on a 375-wide phone, a 6× and 9.2× linear reduction. The box is Apple’s and doesn’t change with your upload: three apps that uploaded different sizes all rendered at exactly 220 × 476.
Nothing is cropped, so the whole image survives. What doesn’t survive is fine detail, and caption type is the first thing to go. Size text against 220 px, not against the canvas you’re drawing on.
iPhone screenshot sizes
One 6.9-inch set covers every iPhone. Provide smaller classes only when scaled artwork needs manual correction.
| Display | Devices | Portrait (px) | Landscape (px) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.9" | iPhone Air, 17 Pro Max, 16 Pro Max, 16 Plus, 15 Pro Max, 15 Plus, 14 Pro Max | 1320 × 28681290 × 27961260 × 2736 | 2868 × 13202796 × 12902736 × 1260 | Required (or 6.5") |
| 6.5" | iPhone 14 Plus, 13 Pro Max, 12 Pro Max, 11 Pro Max, 11, XS Max, XR | 1284 × 27781242 × 2688 | 2778 × 12842688 × 1242 | Required if no 6.9" |
| 6.3" | iPhone 17 Pro, 17, 16 Pro, 16, 15 Pro, 15, 14 Pro | 1206 × 26221179 × 2556 | 2622 × 12062556 × 1179 | Optional |
| 6.1" | iPhone 17e, 16e, 14, 13 Pro, 13, 13 mini, 12 Pro, 12, 12 mini, 11 Pro, XS, X | 1170 × 25321125 × 24361080 × 2340 | 2532 × 11702436 × 11252340 × 1080 | Optional |
| 5.5" | iPhone 8 Plus, 7 Plus, 6s Plus, 6 Plus | 1242 × 2208 | 2208 × 1242 | Optional |
| 4.7" | iPhone SE (3rd, 2nd gen), iPhone 8, 7, 6s, 6 | 750 × 1334 | 1334 × 750 | Optional |
Where a class lists more than one dimension, App Store Connect accepts any of them. The bold value is simply the largest, which is the one worth designing at. Apple still accepts two legacy classes as well: 4-inch (640 × 1136, or 640 × 1096 without a status bar) and 3.5-inch (640 × 960, or 640 × 920 without a status bar).
The iPhone fallback chain
Each block on Apple’s page names the class its slot is filled from, and the chain doesn’t always point at the size you uploaded: 6.5″ is filled from 6.9″, then 6.3″ and 6.1″ from 6.5″, 5.5″ from 6.1″, 4.7″ from 5.5″, 4″ from 4.7″ and 3.5″ from 4″. Upload one 6.9″ set and every smaller slot still resolves, just through more than one hop.
The 6.9″ block is the only iPhone block with noRequirement line and no Note at all. The one Requirement sits on 6.5″: “Required if app runs on iPhone and screenshots for 6.9″ display aren’t provided.” What fills the 6.9″ slot when you supply only 6.5″ isn’t stated anywhere on the page. We haven’t tested it and won’t guess.
Measured: most top listings don't use 6.9″
We pulled the screenshot dimensions of 99 top-charting US listings and their 679 iPhone files. Seventy of the 99 upload at the 6.5″ class, 28 at 6.9″ and one at 6.3″. The single most common file size is 1242 × 2688, which accounts for 301 files on its own. Both routes are legal, and not one listing in the sample mixed classes inside its set. If you inherit a 6.5″ set, there’s no rule pushing you off it.
iPad screenshot sizes
Required only when your app runs on iPad. The 13-inch set is the master; everything else scales from it.
| Display | Devices | Portrait (px) | Landscape (px) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13" | iPad Pro (M5, M4), iPad Pro (6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 1st gen), iPad Air (M4, M3, M2) | 2064 × 27522048 × 2732 | 2752 × 20642732 × 2048 | Required for iPad apps |
| 12.9" | iPad Pro (2nd gen) | 2048 × 2732 | 2732 × 2048 | Optional |
| 11" | iPad Pro (M5, M4), iPad Pro (4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st gen), iPad Air (M4, M3, M2), iPad Air (5th, 4th gen), iPad (A16), iPad (10th gen), iPad mini (A17 Pro), iPad mini (6th gen) | 1668 × 24201668 × 23881640 × 23601488 × 2266 | 2420 × 16682388 × 16682360 × 16402266 × 1488 | Optional |
| 10.5" | iPad Pro 10.5", iPad Air (3rd gen), iPad (9th, 8th, 7th gen) | 1668 × 2224 | 2224 × 1668 | Optional |
| 9.7" | iPad Pro 9.7", iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad, iPad 2, iPad (6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd gen), iPad mini (5th gen), mini 4, mini 3, mini 2 | 1536 × 20481536 × 2008768 × 1024768 × 1004 | 2048 × 15362048 × 14961024 × 7681024 × 748 | Optional |
The iPad fallback chain
12.9″ and 11″ are both filled from 13″, 10.5″ from 12.9″, and 9.7″ from 10.5″. So 11-inch artwork comes straight off your 13-inch set rather than through the 12.9-inch slot, which is the part that surprises people. Design at 2064 × 2752 and the other four classes resolve on their own.
In practice everyone relies on this. All 19 of the iPad listings we measured uploaded a 13-inch class size, and not one uploaded an 11-inch, 10.5-inch or 9.7-inch set. Most used the older 2048 × 2732 pair, which the 13-inch class accepts alongside 2064 × 2752.
Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV & Vision Pro
| Platform / device | Size (px) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Mac | 2880 × 18002560 × 16001440 × 9001280 × 800 | Required for Mac apps (any one 16:10 size) |
| Apple Watch Ultra 3 | 422 × 514 | Required for Watch apps (any one size) |
| Apple Watch Ultra 2 / Ultra | 410 × 502 | Accepted |
| Apple Watch Series 11 / 10 | 416 × 496 | Accepted |
| Apple Watch Series 9 / 8 / 7 | 396 × 484 | Accepted |
| Apple Watch Series 6 / 5 / 4 / SE 3 / SE 2 / SE | 368 × 448 | Accepted |
| Apple Watch Series 3 / 2 / 1 | 312 × 390 | Accepted |
| Apple TV | 3840 × 21601920 × 1080 | Required for TV apps |
| Apple Vision Pro | 3840 × 2160 | Required for Vision Pro apps |
App previews use different numbers entirely
Every size on this page is a screenshot size. If you also upload an app preview video, none of them apply. Apple accepts iPhone previews at 886 × 1920 portraitor 1920 × 886 landscape, and that resolution matches no iPhone panel that has ever shipped. Scale a 1290 × 2796 recording to 1920 tall and you get 885.84, which rounds to Apple’s 886; do it with 1320 × 2868 and you get 883.68, so the newest panel needs a few pixels of crop or pad before it fits. iPad previews take 1200 × 1600 or 1600 × 1200, Mac and Apple TV take 1920 × 1080, and Apple Vision Pro takes 3840 × 2160.
Why this trips people up
1320 × 2868 is the accepted screenshot resolution. It is not an accepted preview resolution, and a recording straight off the device is never the right size for the preview slot even though it is exactly right for the screenshot slot. Previews add constraints screenshots never have: H.264 or ProRes 422 HQ, 15 to 30 seconds, 30 fps maximum, a 500 MB file ceiling, and up to three previews per supported device size and language.
There’s one knock-on effect worth knowing before you make one. Apple shows your first one to three screenshots in search results only when the listing has no app preview, so adding a preview takes that slot instead. We measured how many top listings actually carry one before deciding it’s worth the effort.
Changing screenshots after you ship
This is the rule that catches people hardest, because it has no equivalent on Google Play. On the App Store your screenshots belong to an app version. Apple’s upload guideputs it in one sentence: “Once your app is submitted for review and approved, you must create a new version to update the screenshots.” The statuses that let you touch screenshots at all — Prepare for Submission, Invalid Binary, Rejected, Metadata Rejected, Developer Rejected — are all states your app is in before a version goes live.
The one documented route that skips a new version
Product Page Optimization, Apple’s A/B testing feature, carries the line that changes the answer: “You can submit this metadata without submitting a new version of your app.” And on applying a result, Apple says you can apply the treatment to the original product page “at any time.” So new screenshots can clear App Review with no build attached.
Two cautions Apple states plainly. Applying a treatment“can’t be undone”, and only previews and screenshots move across, not the icon. What the help pages don’tsay is whether a test has to run before a treatment can be applied, so we won’t call it a clean publishing shortcut. We haven’t tried it. We set PPO side by side with Play’s store listing experiments, and measured how often top listings actually ship a version, since on iOS that sets how often the free route opens.
Adding a language copies your screenshots
Screenshots are per-localization, but a new localization doesn’t start empty. Apple saysthat when you add a language, “screenshots and the properties for the new language default to those of the primary language, except for the description and keywords.” So a listing can carry a full set of per-language assets that are visually the same English screenshots, and nothing flags it.
If no localization matches a user’s language, “the next most relevant localization is used”, and otherwise your primary language shows. Worth knowing before you decide which languages are worth localizing artwork for.
Practical workflow
- Capture your app at any size — a simulator, a real device, or a browser capture all work.
- Design once at 1320 × 2868 (and 2064 × 2752 if you ship on iPad).
- Export the exact required dimensions — no resizing in a separate tool, no rejected uploads.
QuickScreens ships these sizes as presets: pick a device frame, drop in your capture, and the export is already store-exact. Shipping on Android too? See the Google Play screenshot sizes reference. For what to put in the screenshots, read our screenshot best-practices guide or follow the step-by-step screenshot walkthrough. React Native and Expo teams can use the measured simulator-to-store workflow.
Frequently asked questions
What screenshot sizes are required for the App Store in 2026?
iPhone apps must include 6.9-inch screenshots, and App Store Connect accepts three portrait dimensions in that class: 1320×2868, 1290×2796 and 1260×2736. The 6.5-inch class (1284×2778 or 1242×2688) is the alternative. iPad apps must include 13-inch screenshots (2064×2752 or 2048×2732). Every other display size is optional, and App Store Connect scales your required set to fill the gaps.
Can I upload just one screenshot size for all iPhones?
Yes. Upload one 6.9-inch set and App Store Connect automatically scales it for every smaller iPhone display. Any of the three accepted 6.9-inch dimensions works; 1320×2868 is the largest and keeps the most detail when Apple scales it down. Dedicated 6.5-, 6.3- and 6.1-inch sets are optional and only worth making if scaled artwork looks wrong on those screens.
How many App Store screenshots can I upload?
Between 1 and 10 screenshots per localization for each display size. The early ones matter most. Apple shows the first one to three images in search results, depending on their orientation, and only when you have no app preview video — a preview takes that slot instead.
What file formats does App Store Connect accept for screenshots?
JPEG (.jpg/.jpeg) or PNG, with no alpha channel or transparency. If your export tool writes transparent pixels, App Store Connect rejects the upload — flatten the image onto a solid background first.
How large does the App Store display screenshots?
On the App Store web product page, our 6 August 2026 measurement found a 1320-pixel-wide iPhone upload rendering at 220 CSS pixels on a 1280-pixel desktop window, 144 pixels on a 375-pixel phone window, and 260 pixels at 1440 pixels wide. That is a 6× to 9.2× linear reduction. We measured the web product page only, not the signed-in App Store app or its search results, so use these numbers as a legibility check for that real surface rather than a claim about every App Store view.
Do I need separate iPad screenshots?
Only if your app runs on iPad. If it does, the 13-inch size (2064×2752 portrait or 2752×2064 landscape) is required, and older iPad sizes are scaled from it. iPhone-only apps can skip iPad screenshots entirely.
Can I change my App Store screenshots without submitting a new version?
Not on the default product page. Apple's help is explicit: once your app is submitted for review and approved, you must create a new version to update the screenshots. The one documented route around it is Product Page Optimization, Apple's A/B testing feature, whose setup page says you can submit test metadata without submitting a new version of your app, and whose treatments can be applied to your live product page at any time. Applying a treatment can't be undone. Google Play has no equivalent gate: there, screenshots are a store listing change with no release attached.
What size are App Store app preview videos?
886 × 1920 portrait or 1920 × 886 landscape for every current iPhone, which matches no iPhone screen. iPad takes 1200 × 1600 or 1600 × 1200, Mac and Apple TV take 1920 × 1080, and Apple Vision Pro takes 3840 × 2160. These are preview resolutions, not screenshot resolutions, so 1320 × 2868 is not a valid preview file. Adding a preview also replaces your screenshots in App Store search results.
What size are Apple Watch, Mac, Apple TV and Vision Pro screenshots?
Apple Watch accepts any one of six sizes: 422×514 (Ultra 3), 410×502 (Ultra 2 and Ultra), 416×496 (Series 11 and 10), 396×484 (Series 9, 8 and 7), 368×448 (Series 6, 5, 4, SE 3, SE 2 and SE) and 312×390 (Series 3, 2 and 1). Whichever you pick, Apple requires you to use that same Watch size consistently across every localization. Mac apps need one of four 16:10 sizes: 1280×800, 1440×900, 2560×1600 or 2880×1800. Apple TV takes 1920×1080 or 3840×2160, and Apple Vision Pro takes 3840×2160.
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