How to find a screenshot on iPhone

You took it to remember it. Here is every way to actually pull it back up — and the one that works when you can't remember the exact words.

The Screenshots album

Every screenshot you take lands in one place automatically: Photos → Albums → Screenshots (under Media Types). No setup, it has always been there. The catch: it is every screenshot you have ever taken, newest first. Finding the one from March means scrolling March.

Search the Photos app

Photos can read the text inside your screenshots. Open Photos → Search and type a word you remember seeing in it — a restaurant name, an order number, a word from the text convo. Spotlight works too: swipe down on the Home Screen and search the same word.

The catch: this only finds exact words. "That ramen place from tiktok" finds nothing — you have to remember that the caption said "kinboshi". Most of the time you remember the thing, not the text.

Ask in plain words instead

Receipts reads every screenshot on your iPhone and answers questions the way you actually remember them:

It opens straight to Ask — one tap or hold the button and say it. The screenshot itself is the answer, with the details pulled out: place, address, date, time, price, links, codes. And everything is read on your phone — nothing gets uploaded.

What it costs

Free searches your last 30 days of screenshots. Pro — $4.99/month or $29.99/year with a 3-day free trial — searches everything and adds the map of places you saved, dated nudges and the weekly recap. A $79.99 lifetime plan is available at launch.

Keep the receipts.

Receipts reads every screenshot on your iPhone and pulls up the right one the second you ask — in plain words. Free searches your last 30 days. Pro ($4.99/mo or $29.99/yr, 3-day free trial) searches everything. $79.99 lifetime at launch.

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