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iPhone Notes Screenshot Sizes and Text Fitting

A Notes screenshot is the size of the phone's screen — around 1200×2600 pixels on modern iPhones — and holds roughly 150–200 words at default size. The numbers, and how to fit text deliberately.

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An iPhone Notes screenshot is the size of the phone's screen: 1170×2532 pixels on an iPhone 13 or 14, 1179×2556 on a 15, up to 1320×2868 on a 16 Pro Max. The size is set by the device, not the app — Notes fills the screen, so a Notes screenshot is simply a screenshot. What varies is how much text fits inside it, and that is the part worth planning.

The sizes, briefly

iOS lays screens out in points and writes screenshots at three times that, so every modern iPhone produces an image around 1200×2600 pixels — tall, narrow, and sharp. The full model-by-model table lives in iPhone screenshot sizes for every model; for a Notes mockup the practical answer is that any current preset is big enough for social, slides, and print at social sizes.

How much text fits

At the Notes app's default text size, a screen holds roughly 150–200 words before scrolling — a short statement, not an essay. Past that you have three options, in order of preference: cut the text, shrink the type a step, or accept that the note continues off-screen, which readers understand but screenshots handle badly.

Fitting text deliberately

The iPhone Notes Screenshot Generator includes a text-size slider for exactly this: paste the text, then nudge the size until it sits comfortably with margin to spare. Two guidelines that hold up: never shrink below the point where the text is readable on a phone at feed size, and leave breathing room at the bottom — a note that ends exactly at the toolbar looks cramped.

Paragraphs beat length

A 150-word note in one block reads worse than a 200-word note in five short paragraphs. Blank lines between thoughts are what make the format readable at a glance, which is the whole reason to post a note image instead of plain text.

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