When providing your application screenshots in iTunes Connect, one thing that Apple recommends is removing the status bar from your screenshots. Whilst I agree with and follow this recommendation, cropping the screenshots to remove the status bar is particularly tedious and frustrating. The issue is only compounded now with the separate screenshots required for iPad devices.

So I decided to write a small Automator application to automatically crop my screenshots. The application can be downloaded here. To use the application, drag the CropAction.action file to ~/Library/Automator and execute the iPhoneScreenshotCropper, selecting the image files you’d like to crop. The image files have to have one of the supported file extensions of png, jpg, jpeg, or tiff. They also need to have the correct resolution matching a full size screenshot from an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch device. The existing image files selected will then have the status bar removed.

One caveat, I’ve only tested the application on PNGs so far.