Ryanair Boarding Pass, Will Screenshot work (2024)

Are you it’s not because it’s not scanning as their phone is dimming when turned over

If travelling with someone else it's a good idea to have both boarding cards on your two phones.

Provides a back up if any problems with one phone.

I fly a lot.

When people get refused by the automatic gates the security overseeing the gates checks their phone. The first question is always “is this a screenshot?”

The machines reject them (not always obviously) because they’re lower resolution than the original.

Play it safe and just download the app.

So the rejection is be use of quality and not because it’s a screenshot.

i also fly a lot.

Your wife should be able to export the boarding pass to Google Wallet if she has a Google Wallet account on her own phone once she is logged into your Ryanair account. I always save boarding passes to Google Wallet, the Ryanair app and as a screenshot. Once you have the boarding pass saved to Google Wallet you don't need an internet signal to access the boarding pass. I find my reception (Gomo) at Dublin airport can be slow at times so I don't like relying on the Ryanair app too much. It will work but the boarding pass can take ages to load on the Ryanair app. Screenshots have also worked fine for me as well in the past.

Yeah, I've used screenshots for multiple flights they've always worked. Most recently in October going to and from Tenerife.

Quite possible (only guessing) that the issue with screenshots is when they are screenshotted on one phone and used on a different phone with different screen resolution.

This will result in a resized image which might not scan correctly.

That's true. A screenshot taken on one phone and used on the same phone is identical by definition as long as it's stored in a lossless format such as PNG which on my Android phone at least it is.

As far as using a screenshot on one phone that was generated on another goes, another issue could arise if you use WhatsApp to send them as it compresses image files by default.

Yes, Screenshot should work,

My OH's mother flew from Lithuania to Ireland and back, about 5 weeks ago, and only had screenshots of the boarding card on her phone... as long as the barcode is clear it should be fine.

I screenshotted from my iPhone 13, and sent it to her iPhone 6, with no issues.

I've never been brave enough not to bring the boarding passes.

What do you do just down load the app?