Save a Webpage as a PDF

In this video, we’re going to look at how we can capture the entire web page in Safari and save that as a PDF. We do this by taking a screenshot, but instead of just taking a screenshot of what is shown on your display, what we can do is we can tell the iPhone to capture the entire web page and save that as a PDF. Let’s see how we do this. Let’s go to my iPhone.

Let’s first open up Safari here. The first thing we need to do is go to the web page that we want to capture. I am at apple.com. I want to create a PDF of this entire page. Well, to do that, what we first need to do is take a screenshot. Now I press in on the sleep/wake button here and the volume up button. We get our screenshot down at the bottom here. I tap on it, and we’re looking at my screenshot here. But like I said, what I would like to do is I would like to view the entire webpage, not just what was shown on my display.

Well, if you go up to the top here, you’re going to see we have a couple of options, Screen and Full Page. When I tap on Full Page here, it turns that screenshot into a PDF, and if we look, you’re going to see we have a thumbnail here. I have to just drag this down, and I can see the entire page.

To save this, I just tap on done and being that it’s a PDF, it asks me if I want to save this to my Files app. So I’m just going to save this to my Files app. Let’s just put it into my PDFs folder. I created a folder called PDFs, and then I tap on Save. And now I just saved that webpage, the entire webpage.

Let’s take a look at another webpage. I’m going to tap on the little bars here, and let’s go to iPhone. I want to read more about the iPhone 12 Pro; I tap on it. I would like to save this page here as a PDF so then I can read the entire page. Well, to do that, I press in on the sleep/wake button, as well as the volume up button. We have our thumbnail here. I tap on it. By default, it goes over to Screen, so it will be just a screenshot of what was on my display. I tap on Full Page. Now we can see we have my full page. I want to save this. I tap on done, and I save it to my Files app. I’m going to place it in my PDFs folder again. I tap on save, and now I have two PDFs in my Files app.

So let’s swipe up from the bottom to get to my homepage. And now I’m going to go to my Files app. I go over to my PDFs folder. And I have my two PDFs. To read them, all I have to do is just tap on it. Let’s go to this article here, I tap on it, and now I can read that entire page.

So that’s how you can save a full page in Safari as a PDF on the iPhone. The first thing we need to do is we need to take a screenshot of the webpage in Safari. You’ll see the thumbnail show up in the lower left-hand corner; tap on the thumbnail. And then at the top, you’re going to see a slider where it says Full Page, tap on Full Page, and it’ll turn that screenshot into a PDF, and you’ll have the entire webpage from Safari. When you tap on done, it’ll ask you to save it to the Files app.

So that’s how you can capture the entire webpage in Safari and save it as a PDF.