App Store Screenshot Sizes & Dimensions: The Complete 2026 Spec Guide

Apple has quietly simplified its screenshot requirements over the last few years, but the docs still read like tax code. Here's the current reality for 2026: if you ship the 6.9-inch iPhone size and the 13-inch iPad size, you're covered. Everything else Apple will scale for you.

iPhone screenshot sizes (2026)

For new submissions, Apple accepts one required size and treats everything smaller as auto-generated. Upload the largest and you're done.

• 6.9-inch display (iPhone 16 Pro Max class): 1320 × 2868 portrait or 2868 × 1320 landscape — REQUIRED for new apps.
• 6.7-inch display (iPhone 15 Pro Max, 14 Pro Max): 1290 × 2796 portrait or 2796 × 1290 landscape — still common.
• 6.5-inch display (iPhone 11 Pro Max, XS Max): 1242 × 2688 portrait or 2688 × 1242 landscape — legacy but still accepted.
• 5.5-inch display (iPhone 8 Plus and earlier): 1242 × 2208 portrait — fully deprecated for new apps in 2026.

iPad screenshot sizes

iPad asset requirements are fewer than iPhone. Ship the 13-inch Pro set and you're good across the entire tablet lineup.

• 13-inch iPad Pro (M4): 2064 × 2752 portrait or 2752 × 2064 landscape — required for iPad-supporting apps.
• 12.9-inch iPad Pro: 2048 × 2732 portrait or 2732 × 2048 landscape — still works.
• 11-inch iPad Pro: 1668 × 2388 portrait or 2388 × 1668 landscape — optional.

How many screenshots can you upload?

Up to 10 per device class. Apple only shows the first three without a swipe on most surfaces — treat slots 1 through 3 as your hook, 4 through 6 as supporting evidence, and 7 through 10 as bonus content only power-browsers will see.

File format and size rules

• Format: PNG or JPEG. Use PNG when you have flat colors or text overlays — compression artifacts on text look terrible.
• Color space: sRGB or P3.
• No transparency (Apple will reject files with an alpha channel).
• Max file size: 8 MB per screenshot — realistically you'll be well under this unless you're adding heavy photography.

Portrait vs. landscape — which to pick

Match the dominant orientation of the app. Camera, utility and game apps with landscape UI should ship landscape shots. Everything else — which is ~90% of App Store inventory — should be portrait. Mixing the two in the same set is allowed but looks disorganized in the carousel.

What about localized screenshots?

Apple lets you upload a distinct set per App Store locale. If your app is in Japanese, Portuguese and English, you can ship three sets of screenshots with translated overlays. This is one of the highest-leverage ASO moves for international growth and it's dramatically underused.

Common rejection reasons

• Using alpha-channel PNGs exported from Figma. Flatten to white or a solid background before upload.
• Including the physical device frame in the image. Apple wants the in-app UI only for most categories — framing is optional and sometimes flagged.
• Screenshots that misrepresent the app (showing features behind a paywall as if they're free, for example).
• Screenshots that are a marketing poster with no actual UI visible. Apple will reject these more often than they used to.

Quick reference card

If you're going to memorize two sizes, memorize these: 1320 × 2868 for iPhone, 2064 × 2752 for iPad. With those two asset sizes you have App Store coverage for every device Apple currently sells — plus automatic downsampling for older hardware.