is there a way to take a screenshot on iPad with one hand?

Yes, using Assistive Touch. Go to Settings/General/Accessibility/Assistive Touch, and toggle top On. A black square containing a white circle will appear on screen. Move this to anywhere you wish with one finger drag. Then click Customise Top Level Menu... and where you see in blue writing 6 Icons with a + and - choice next to it, click the + button. An extra button will appear on the screen containing a + symbol. Click that, and a sub menu will appear. Scroll down and one of the options will be Screenshot. Job done.

I have not heard of another method to take screenshots, nor have I heard of an app that can take screenshots.

I've got an idea that may help him.

Settings->General->Accessibility->Assistive touch (turn on)

There's an on-screen button which looks somewhat like an translucent home button.

Drag it to the top right corner of the screen so he can reach that with one hand.

Tell him to position the iPad slightly tilt forward or it could lie on a flat plane.

Hold the sleep button, touch the "translucent" button and hit the home button action!

That should help, I hope. :)

I've just tried it myself.

The action menu positions itself at the middle of the screen. Probably apple could give this feature an update to situate the menu close to where the action button is located.

Anyway, it is still possible to do a screenshot with one hand with the suggested method.

Position the little finger on the sleep button and use the thumb to hit the "home button action" after you hit the action button.

Good luck.

Wow, that takes a hand dexterity that I don't have! Yes it can be done though. 😀

I tried to figure out a way to do it with a custom gesture, but I don't really understand how that works and was unsuccessful.

Dah•veed wrote:

I tried to figure out a way to do it with a custom gesture, but I don't really understand how that works and was unsuccessful.

Me neither! 😝 Hopefully it turns out to be an extremely useful feature.

I do use accessibility options myself on my iPhone because its home button is slightly unresponsive.

I tried this approach and while it does work, with the latest iOS AssistiveTouch there's an even better way to take a single-handed screenshot:

1. Press the AssistiveTouch home icon to display the options overlay. Hint: You can enable AssistiveTouch all the time or set triple-click Home to bring it up.

2. Press the Device icon.

3. Press the More icon.

4. Press the Screenshot icon.

And taking the screenshot this way also removes the AssistiveTouch overlay from the picture.

Thanks Apple!

That is great. Now how can I position the Screenshot icon onto one of the top level screens of AssistiveTouch?

Wouldn't that be great?!