App Store screenshots: sizes, rules and listings
Exact pixel sizes for every iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro and Apple Watch class, read from Apple's own pages, each article dated. The file rules that reject an upload before a human sees it, and what to put in the screenshots when the app has no users yet. Free to quote with a link. Written by My Larp Wallet, a crypto wallet app simulator: we make phone screens, so we measure them.
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Sizes by device
iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air: resolution and screenshot sizes
Four new phones, three pixel sizes, and one of them is brand new. The arithmetic that produces them, and the upload slot each one lands in.
iPhone screen sizes in points and pixels: the full table
Layout happens in points, files are measured in pixels, and the bridge between them is a single multiplication. Every current iPhone, both ways.
App Store screenshot resolution: pixels, not DPI
Apple specifies screenshots in pixels, not DPI. Here are the numbers, where they come from, and the format rules that fail an upload before a human ever sees it.
iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Vision Pro screenshot sizes
Five iPad display classes, one of them required and the rest filled by scaling, then the short lists for Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Vision Pro.
Uploads and rejections
“The dimensions of one or more screenshots are wrong”: the fix
App Store Connect checks your file against a closed list of pixel sizes. One pixel off and the upload stops. Here is the list, and the three ways people land outside it.
App Store screenshot guidelines: why screenshots get rejected
Two entirely different failure modes wear the same word. One is caught by a file checker in seconds, the other by a reviewer days later, and only one of them costs you a release.
App preview videos: the specs, and the number that surprises everyone
Fifteen to thirty seconds, three per set, H.264 at 10–12 Mbps, and an accepted resolution that has nothing to do with your phone's screen.
Wallet mockup screenshots: what App Store review actually rejects
The same search is typed by two people who want opposite things. One is preparing a store listing and has no data yet. The other wants a number on a screen to be believed. This article is for the first, and says plainly why we are no use to the second.
The status bar
Why 9:41? What the status bar should say in App Store screenshots
Nine forty-one, full bars, full battery: a convention with a reason behind it, and a set of measurements for anyone rebuilding the bar rather than capturing it.
iPhone screenshot without the status bar: what works, and what it costs
iOS has no setting that keeps the status bar out of a screenshot. Four workarounds exist, and each one charges something: preparation, a size Apple refuses, a Mac, or an edited file.
The listing, before you have users
App Store listing optimization: what actually moves installs
The four things seen before anyone reads a word, and the character limits that decide what fits in them.
How much text actually fits on an App Store screenshot
Your caption is designed at 1290 pixels wide and read at a fraction of that. The arithmetic decides the type size, and it is not a matter of taste.
Fake data in a product demo: where the line actually is
Every launch screenshot contains invented numbers. That is normal. What turns it into a problem is not the invention; it is what the image is then used to obtain.
Screenshots for a crypto wallet listing, specifically
Wallet listings fail review for reasons other categories never meet, and the images are where most of it happens.
iPhone mockup generator vs screenshot: which to use when
Two tools that produce the same-looking file for very different jobs. The choice comes down to whether the screen exists yet, and whether the audience will read the image as evidence.
Figma app mockup vs real screenshot: which one to use
Both produce an image at the same pixel size. They fail in opposite ways, and the failure mode is what should decide.
Written by My Larp Wallet, a crypto wallet app simulator: a mockup that opens on your phone, never a real wallet. For your own app’s screenshots, shoot your build; where a wallet mockup fits, and where it does not.