How to make and upload Google Play Store screenshots

Steps

1. 1

   Decide how many you need, per device type

   Play Console Help sets a floor and a ceiling:

   • Floor: "You must provide a minimum of two screenshots across different device types to publish your store listing."
   • Ceiling: "You can add up to 8 screenshots for each supported device type." Device types are phones, 7-inch and 10-inch tablets, Chromebooks, Android TV, Wear OS, Android Automotive OS and Android XR.

   Two is enough to publish, not enough to be featured. To be eligible for the large-format recommendation surfaces, Google asks apps for "at least four screenshots with minimum 1080px resolution", at 9:16 portrait (minimum 1080 x 1920) or 16:9 landscape (minimum 1920 x 1080). For tablets and Chromebooks the same page says "you can add a minimum of 4 screenshots".

2. 2

   Make files the Play Console will take

   The format rules, quoted from Play Console Help:

   • "JPEG or 24-bit PNG (no alpha)"
   • "Minimum dimension: 320px"
   • "Maximum dimension: 3840px"
   • "The maximum dimension of your screenshot can't be more than twice as long as the minimum dimension."

   That last rule is the one to read carefully. Most current Android phones are taller than 2:1, so a raw capture from one breaks it on paper. A 1080 x 2340 file and a 1080 x 2160 file both uploaded to a live Play Console listing without an error when we checked in August 2026, so it does not appear to be enforced as a hard gate. That was one check on one listing. If you want no risk at all, 1080 x 1920 meets every rule on the page.

   Check a file before you upload it:

   # Pixel size and whether the file carries an alpha channel
   magick identify -format "%wx%h %[channels]\n" screenshot.png
   

3. 3

   Show the app, then compose around it

   Google's guidance is that screenshots "must demonstrate the actual in-app or in-game experience". Stylized frames are allowed, including a design that runs across several images, but Google asks you to "prioritize UI in the first three screenshots as much as possible", and to avoid small text over busy backgrounds because it "will not be visible on many phone screens".

   So start from real captures of the screens you want to sell, then add the device frame and a short headline on top. That second part is what the Play Store screenshot generator does: describe the app and a set comes back at the Android sizes we render, read from our device specs:

   • Android phone: 1080 x 2340
   • Google Pixel 11 Pro: 1280 x 2856
   • Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra: 1440 x 3120
   • Android tablet 7": 1200 x 1920
   • Android tablet 10": 1600 x 2560

   The phone sizes are native panel resolutions, so they sit above 2:1 for the reason covered in the previous step.

4. 4

   Upload them in Play Console

   Google puts preview assets on one page:

   1. Open your app in Play Console.
   2. Go to Grow users > Store presence > Main store listing.
   3. Scroll to the Graphics section and find the block for the device type you are filling (phone, tablet, Chromebook and so on).
   4. Upload the files in the order you want them shown, and add alt text to each one. Google recommends it for screen-reader users, kept to 140 characters or less.
   5. Save.

   Assets added here show on your store listing "across all test tracks", so testers see the new set too.

5. 5

   Send the change for review

   Saving the listing does not publish it. A store listing edit lands in Publishing overview under "Changes not yet sent for review", and Google is explicit that "Items are not sent for review until you click Send for review."

   This is also how you change screenshots on an app that is already live. A store listing change is its own item on Publishing overview, separate from a release, so a new set does not need a new app bundle.