iPad screenshot sizes for the App Store: the 13-inch set, then Mac, Watch, Apple TV and Vision Pro

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.

Published: 7 September 2026 · Last reviewed: 1 November 2026

iPad: the one set that is required

Apple attaches a single condition to the 13″ iPad class: required if app runs on iPad. There is no equivalent escape clause to the one iPhone has: on iPad, that set is the price of entry.

Every accepted size

Read from Apple's screenshot specifications on 1 September 2026 and checked again on 12 October 2026. The 9.7″ class is a legacy one: the two 1536 sizes are in pixels, without the status bar (1536 × 2008) and with it (1536 × 2048), and the two 768 sizes are the same screen at 1×. An error on any of them reads like the one in the dimensions are wrong fix. All iPhone and iPad classes side by side are in the App Store screenshot sizes guide, and the screenshot size calculator checks a file against them.

The scaling chain is worth reading twice

It is not one hop. The 10.5″ class is filled from 12.9″, and 9.7″ from 10.5″, so a single 13″ upload does not reach the bottom of the ladder directly. In practice this rarely matters, because the devices at the bottom are old enough that their share of your installs is small; but if those devices are your audience, the chain is the reason your listing looks softer there than you expected.

iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) in the Simulator

The Xcode 27.0 Simulator renders the iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) at 2064 × 2752, a size on the 13″ list, so a capture uploads without resizing. The catch is the file format: xcrun simctl io <device> screenshot --type=png writes a PNG with an alpha channel, and Apple's page says “Images can't include alpha channels or transparencies.” Flatten it with sips -s format jpeg -s formatOptions 95 in.png --out out.jpg, which on an iPhone capture gave an RGB JPEG with no alpha, and confirm yours with sips -g hasAlpha out.jpg.

iPad is not a wider iPhone

The aspect ratios are close to 4:3 rather than the roughly 19.5:9 of a phone. A screen composed for a phone and stretched to fill an iPad frame reads as stretched, and the type gives it away because it grows in one direction only. If iPad matters to you, compose for it separately.

Mac

Screenshots are required for Mac apps, and only four sizes are accepted, every one of them 16:10: 1280 × 800, 1440 × 900, 2560 × 1600 and 2880 × 1800. The last two are the first two at @2×, so the four sizes are really two designs: compose at one size, then produce its double.

A window capture rarely fits. A window is whatever shape you dragged it to, and a 16:9 monitor, a 3:2 laptop or an ultrawide is not 16:10 either. Place the window on a 16:10 canvas rather than cropping it: cropping eats the window's own chrome, which is the part that says “this is a Mac app”.

Apple Watch

Screenshots are required for Apple Watch apps, and one rule exists on no other platform: the same Apple Watch size has to be used across every localisation of the app. The choice is not about which watch you own; it is about which size you are willing to produce in every language you ship.

Apple TV and Vision Pro

3840 × 2160 is on both lists, and the pixel count is the only thing the two platforms share. A television screenshot is read across a room, by someone holding a remote: large type, few elements, high contrast. A Vision Pro screenshot depicts an interface that floats in space and is read at arm's length. Both slots accept the same file; it cannot be right for both.

The Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Vision Pro lists were read from Apple's screenshot specifications on 1 September 2026 and checked again on 12 October 2026. For the resolution rules behind all of them, see App Store screenshot resolution.

Questions

What size are iPad screenshots for App Store Connect?

If your app runs on iPad, the 13-inch set is required: 2064 × 2752 or 2048 × 2732 in portrait.

Is the 12.9-inch iPad set required?

No. Apple fills the 12.9-inch and 11-inch classes by scaling down from the 13-inch set you provide.

What size are Mac App Store screenshots?

Four, and only four: 1280 × 800, 1440 × 900, 2560 × 1600 and 2880 × 1800. All of them are 16:10.

What size are Apple Watch screenshots?

They run from 312 × 390 on Series 1 to 3 up to 422 × 514 on Ultra 4 and Ultra 3, one size per case size rather than a single set.

What size are Apple TV screenshots?

Apple TV accepts 1920 × 1080 and 3840 × 2160.

What size are Apple Vision Pro screenshots?

Apple Vision Pro accepts 3840 × 2160.

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