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iPhone App Store screenshot size (2026): 1260×2736 and every accepted resolution

Samer Alatawneh · Founder of Storeshot

September 4, 2026 · 6 min read

iPhone App Store screenshots should be 1260×2736 pixels in portrait (or 2736×1260 in landscape). That is Apple's 6.9-inch display class, and since 2024 it has been the master size: upload one set at that resolution and App Store Connect scales it for every smaller iPhone automatically. Everything else on this page is the detail behind that one sentence, so you can stop second-guessing the upload form.

This is the iPhone chapter of our full App Store and Google Play screenshot size guide. iPad has its own page, and so does Google Play.

The one size that matters: 1260×2736

Apple calls it the “6.9-inch Display” class. It covers the iPhone Air, 17 Pro Max, and 16 Pro Max at their native pixel dimensions. The aspect ratio is roughly 9:19.5, which is taller than the 9:16 that Google Play expects, so this set cannot be reused on Play without re-composing (more on that below). You can upload between 1 and 10 images.

How the fallback chain works

Every class you don't upload is filled by scaling down the next larger one: 6.3″ falls back to 6.5″, 6.1″ to 6.5″, 5.5″ to 6.1″, and 6.5″ itself to the 6.9″ master. That is why a single 1260×2736 set is enough for the entire iPhone line. The only reason to upload a device-specific set is control: if your composition puts a headline right at the top edge, the scale-and-crop to an older 6.5″ ratio might clip it, and a dedicated 1242×2688 set lets you fix that by hand.

Landscape iPhone screenshots

Landscape is accepted for every class and is simply the portrait size rotated: 2736×1260 for 6.9″, 2688×1242 for 6.5″, and so on. Two rules: keep the whole set in one orientation, and default to portrait unless your app genuinely runs sideways (games, video players), because App Store search results render the portrait frame and a landscape set shows up smaller there.

File rules that cause silent rejections

• Exact pixels. A 1260×2735 image fails with a generic “invalid image” error and no explanation. Check dimensions before you upload.
• PNG or high-quality JPEG, RGB colour space (not CMYK, not Display P3).
• No alpha channel. A transparent PNG is rejected even if nothing is visibly transparent. Flatten it.
• Max 8 MB per image. DPI metadata is ignored; only the pixel count matters.

Already have files? Drop them into the free screenshot size checker to see exactly which class they match, whether they carry an alpha channel, and whether Google Play would accept them. It runs in your browser.

What to put on the first three

Sizes get you accepted; the first three screenshots get you installed. They are what appears in search results and above the fold, so lead with the outcome (what the user gets), not the feature name, keep headlines to six words or fewer at a size readable in a thumbnail, and keep one palette and one type system across the whole set. Our best-practices guide covers the design side in detail.

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