Combine multiple screenshots on iPhone — three ways to make one image

Last updated: 22 July 2026

You have five screenshots of the same conversation, the same article, the same spreadsheet. You want them as one image so a friend, a coworker, or a customer can see the whole thing without swiping through five files. iOS itself doesn't do this — there is no built-in "stitch these into one" button. This guide is honest about that gap and walks through the three real ways people fill it, from Apple's Markup, to a community Shortcut, to a dedicated app.

Five overlapping screenshots combined into one image in Scrollie — Smart Cleanup hid the scrollbars, Fine-tune magnifier aligns the seams.

Method 1 · iOS Markup (2–3 shots, manual)

iOS has no automatic stitching. What Markup gives you is a way to crop one screenshot at a time and stack them by hand — it works for two or three shots if you're patient.

1. Take each screenshot the normal way, making sure each one overlaps the next by a few lines of visible content. That overlap is what your eye will match on later.
2. Open the first screenshot in Photos, tap Edit, then the Markup pen icon.
3. Use crop to trim off the status bar and any tab bars you don't want repeated in every frame.
4. Open the second screenshot, crop it so the top of screenshot 2 lines up with the bottom of your cropped screenshot 1.
5. Paste both images into a canvas that lets you stack them — the Notes app, a document you're sharing, or a third-party image tool. Repeat for a third shot if needed.

Honest limits: Markup doesn't detect overlaps, doesn't remove scrollbars, doesn't stitch into a single image file, and doesn't produce a clean seam. For a couple of shots it's workable; past three, it stops being pleasant.

Method 2 · The "Stitch Screenshots" Shortcut (free, no app needed)

There's a community Shortcut called Stitch Screenshots that many people have shared. It uses the Shortcuts app to concatenate a chosen batch of images into one tall image and save it back to Photos. It's free, works well for a specific job, and worth knowing about.

1. Install the Shortcuts app if you haven't already — it's an Apple app, free from the App Store.
2. Find a "Stitch Screenshots" Shortcut from a trusted source and add it to your library.
3. Run it, pick the screenshots you want to combine, and it saves a tall image back to Photos.

Honest limits: the Shortcut concatenates images as-is — it doesn't detect overlap, so if two screenshots repeat the same three lines of content, the output shows those lines twice. There's no scrollbar removal, no editable seam, no way to fine-tune, no draft, and no way to add annotations or a mockup. If your screenshots don't overlap at all — for example, evenly-paged captures — the Shortcut is exactly right. If they do overlap, you'll see the duplication.

Method 3 · Scrollie (auto-overlap, Fine-tune, drafts)

Once the job is bigger — five screenshots of a chat thread, ten frames of a long article, or a receipt that scrolled across four screens — the manual and Shortcut paths stop being pleasant. This is the case a dedicated app is built for.

1. Take several overlapping screenshots of the content you want to combine. A few lines of overlap between each is enough — Scrollie does the aligning.
2. Open Scrollie, tap to pick the screenshots from your library, or share them in from Photos.
3. Scrollie detects the overlap between frames automatically and assembles a single tall image. Smart Cleanup hides scrollbars and repeated UI edges so the seams read as continuous scroll.
4. If a seam looks a pixel off, tap it and use Fine-tune — drag up and down with a magnifier overlay until the two halves line up exactly. Both vertical and horizontal stitching support Fine-tune.
5. Trim any extra top or bottom off the finished long image, then add annotations, mosaic sensitive info, apply a device frame if you need one.
6. Export as JPEG, PNG, HEIC, PDF, or evenly-sized slices. Preset a One-Tap Save target in Settings so the toolbar button skips the format dialog next time.

What makes this pleasant beyond the obvious: drafts. Every edit is auto-saved. If you close the app to answer a message, come back an hour later, and the seam you were adjusting is right where you left it. Portrait and landscape drafts are stored separately, so rotating the phone or importing a landscape screenshot in between won't overwrite the vertical chat you were assembling.

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