How to take clear screenShot IOS

change the line

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)

to

UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(rect.size, false, 0.0);

Add the below code block in a new file. And, there you go.

extension UIView {

    // Convert a uiview to uiimage
        func captureView() -> UIImage {
            // Gradually increase the number for high resolution.     
            let scale = 1.0 

            UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(bounds.size, opaque, scale)   

            layer.renderInContext(UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!)
            let image:UIImage  = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
            UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

            return image
        }
    }

Now, you can call captureView() on any subclass of UIView and UIView itself to get the UIImage of the view.

You can change the value of scale in UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions method to get a high resolution image.

You can use the IOSurface private framework to do so

IOMobileFramebufferConnection connect;
kern_return_t result;
IOSurfaceRef screenSurface = NULL;

io_service_t framebufferService = IOServiceGetMatchingService(kIOMasterPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("AppleH1CLCD"));
if(!framebufferService)
    framebufferService = IOServiceGetMatchingService(kIOMasterPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("AppleM2CLCD"));
if(!framebufferService)
    framebufferService = IOServiceGetMatchingService(kIOMasterPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("AppleCLCD"));

result = IOMobileFramebufferOpen(framebufferService, mach_task_self(), 0, &connect);

result = IOMobileFramebufferGetLayerDefaultSurface(connect, 0, &screenSurface);

uint32_t aseed;
IOSurfaceLock(screenSurface, kIOSurfaceLockReadOnly, &aseed);
uint32_t width = IOSurfaceGetWidth(screenSurface);
uint32_t height = IOSurfaceGetHeight(screenSurface);

CFMutableDictionaryRef dict;
int pitch = width*4, size = width*height*4;
int bPE=4;
char pixelFormat[4] = {'A','R','G','B'};
dict = CFDictionaryCreateMutable(kCFAllocatorDefault, 0, &kCFTypeDictionaryKeyCallBacks, &kCFTypeDictionaryValueCallBacks);
CFDictionarySetValue(dict, kIOSurfaceIsGlobal, kCFBooleanTrue);
CFDictionarySetValue(dict, kIOSurfaceBytesPerRow, CFNumberCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, kCFNumberSInt32Type, &pitch));
CFDictionarySetValue(dict, kIOSurfaceBytesPerElement, CFNumberCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, kCFNumberSInt32Type, &bPE));
CFDictionarySetValue(dict, kIOSurfaceWidth, CFNumberCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, kCFNumberSInt32Type, &width));
CFDictionarySetValue(dict, kIOSurfaceHeight, CFNumberCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, kCFNumberSInt32Type, &height));
CFDictionarySetValue(dict, kIOSurfacePixelFormat, CFNumberCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, kCFNumberSInt32Type, pixelFormat));
CFDictionarySetValue(dict, kIOSurfaceAllocSize, CFNumberCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, kCFNumberSInt32Type, &size));

IOSurfaceRef destSurf = IOSurfaceCreate(dict);

void* outAcc;
IOSurfaceAcceleratorCreate(NULL, 0, &outAcc);

IOSurfaceAcceleratorTransferSurface(outAcc, screenSurface, destSurf, dict, NULL);

IOSurfaceUnlock(screenSurface, kIOSurfaceLockReadOnly, &aseed);
CFRelease(outAcc);

CGDataProviderRef provider = CGDataProviderCreateWithData(NULL, IOSurfaceGetBaseAddress(destSurf), (width * height * 4), NULL);
CGImageRef cgImage=CGImageCreate(width, height, 8,
                                 8*4, IOSurfaceGetBytesPerRow(destSurf),
                                 CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(), kCGImageAlphaNoneSkipFirst |kCGBitmapByteOrder32Little,
                                 provider, NULL,
                                 YES, kCGRenderingIntentDefault);
UIImage *img = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:cgImage];

use

UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(your size, opaque, scale

instead of

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)

The last parameter in UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions is scale. If you only need High resolution, try setting a value for scale to 1.0.

func captureView() -> UIImage {
        //hide controls if needed
        let rect: CGRect = self.imageView.frame

        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(rect.size, true, 1.0)//add this line

        let context: CGContextRef = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!
        self.view.layer.renderInContext(context)
        let img: UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
        return img
    }