How to screenshot an entire conversation on iPhone

iPhone's built-in Full Page option usually isn't available in chat apps, so a normal screenshot captures only one screen of a conversation. To save a whole chat as one image, either take overlapping screenshots and stitch them, or use OneScroll: start at either end of the part you want, scroll through it once, and the conversation is saved to Photos as a single long screenshot.

Before you start

• Decide where to start. Chats open at the newest message, so the simplest way is to start there and scroll up to the first message you want. You can also go to the first message and scroll down. Either way, keep to one direction.
• Turn on Do Not Disturb in Control Center, so a banner doesn't land in the middle of the image.
• Think about who is in it. A conversation includes other people's messages, so share it with the same care you would want from them.

Capture the whole chat with OneScroll

1. Once only: add the Long Screenshot control to Control Center. Swipe down from the top-right corner, touch and hold an empty area, tap Add a Control, then search for OneScroll.
2. Open what you want to capture and stay where the image should begin. Open Control Center, tap Long Screenshot, and choose to share your entire screen.
3. Scroll down at an even pace. When you reach the end, tap the red recording indicator at the top of the screen and choose Stop.

A few seconds later the long screenshot is in Photos as one image, and you get a notification. Tap it to crop the start and end or to share.

In a chat, step 3 also works the other way round: start at the newest message and scroll up. Older messages may load in as you go; just keep a steady pace. The image still reads top to bottom.

The chat is stitched on your iPhone. OneScroll has no account, no analytics and no server, so the conversation doesn't leave your device unless you share the image yourself.

OneScroll needs an iPhone with iOS 27 or later. Your first 5 long screenshots are free; after that a one-time purchase unlocks unlimited use, with no subscription. Everything is stitched on your iPhone and nothing is uploaded.

Get the whole page in one scroll

OneScroll stitches while you scroll and saves one long screenshot to Photos. 5 free long screenshots, then a one-time purchase.

Get OneScroll on the App Store · 5 free, then a one-time purchase · iPhone, iOS 27 or later

Crop out what you don't need

Tap the notification, or open OneScroll and tap Last capture. Tap the image where you want to cut, drag the red line into place, and choose Start here or End here. To cover a name or a detail in the middle, open the image in Photos and use Markup.

The manual way: several screenshots

1. Scroll to the first message and take a screenshot.
2. Scroll down, keeping the last message of the previous screenshot visible, and take the next one.
3. Repeat to the end, then combine the screenshots.

This works in every app and costs nothing, but a long conversation means a lot of screenshots to keep in order. See how to stitch screenshots together on iPhone.

Good to know

• A long screenshot is a still image. Videos and animations in the chat end up as a single frame.
• For a very long conversation, a few shorter captures are easier to read and share than one enormous image.

Common questions

OneScroll is our app. The other methods on this page are described as fairly as we can.

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