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The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is the best Samsung flip phone to date. It comes with extra screenshot options to accommodate the cover screen and foldable inner screen. However, many of these aren't obvious, and Samsung doesn't explicitly tell you where to find them.
How to take a screenshot on your MacBook
Taking a screenshot on your Mac might be simple, but if you need to capture your entire screen or just an area, knowing the right shortcuts is vital
Taking screenshots on your Mac is a fundamental skill, just like taking a screenshot on Android devices. What if you want to share an interesting article? You'll need a screenshot. If you're documenting your workflow, for example, to create a tutorial that shows how to pair Samsung Galaxy Buds with macOS, it's the same. You'll need screenshots. macOS offers several built-in tools to capture your screen with ease.
How to take a screenshot in Windows 11
Capturing screenshots on Windows doesn't require rocket science
Whether you want to show off a new trendy app on your budget Android phone, help your parents navigate through settings, capture statistics from a web page, or save a trending LinkedIn post before deleting your account; screenshots can come in handy to do the job in no time. Microsoft's desktop operating system, Windows 11, offers several ways to capture, upload, and annotate screenshots.
Taking a screenshot is a feature on nearly every device with a screen, but the method varies across them, even on similar products like Android phones. We show you how to take screenshots on Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Microsoft Windows, Chromebook, Linux, Galaxy Watch, and WatchOS. We also show you how to record your screen on some of these devices and operating systems.
WhatsApp starts blocking screenshots for view once images and videos
The feature has been spotted in beta testing
In August 2021, WhatsApp took a cue from Snapchat and added the ability to send view once media on its platform. The feature allows users to send photos and videos that can only be seen once—they self-destruct after that. It is a handy option to have, especially when sharing private and sensitive photos. But the Meta-owned company made a major oversight in how it implemented the feature: you could take screenshots of view once media, thereby defeating their entire purpose. A year later, in August 2022, Mark Zuckerberg announced that screenshot blocking was soon coming to WhatsApp for self-destructing media. The feature is now showing up for some beta testers of the app.
Your Google Pixel already knows who that screenshot is for
This could be Android System Intelligence’s latest trick
Over the years, Android has focused on making actions easier and quicker to execute — like how the vast majority of us have moved to gesture navigation. Or, for instance, when you take screenshots, Android gives you the option to edit, crop, or share them right away, without diving into the gallery app first. Today we're looking at another improvement in this direction, as Google’s Pixel phones now try to guess the ideal recipients for screenshots you take.
How to take a screenshot in Android when an app doesn't want you to
Second revision: now with more peril!
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Android may be a wide-open world compared to iOS, but there are still some things you just can't do on Google's mobile platform. One of them is capturing screenshots within apps that prohibit the act — either because the screen contains sensitive information or content protected by digital rights management. Lucky, then, that we have a trick up our sleeve called rooting! Yes, even in 2020, it still has utility for the people who need it the most. So, if you'd like to grab a freezeframe to meme up or spoil a drama series or keep some backup passcodes where you can easily pull them out, we've got a way (or three) to do that.
Chrome is working to support one of Android 12's best features
A long overdue improvement spells the end of multiple screenshots for a webpage
A lot of us take screenshots with our phones, but when trying to do something like sharing a cool, long article with friends and family, that can sometimes mean snapping a bunch of them. We've been waiting forever for Google to add scrolling screenshots natively into Android, and for good reason — it's way more convenient to just take a single capture of content that extends past what's viewable on our phone's screen. Android 12 finally made this long-requested feature a reality, but with one important caveat — it doesn't work in all apps yet. Chrome is among those apps you'll most likely want to take scrolling screenshots in, and soon, it'll support one of Android 12's best features.
Screen recorder scrcpy gains Android 12 support, but Google severely limited its capabilities
The tool is no longer able to record the screen in restricted apps like password managers
Command line tool scrcpy is probably the most powerful screen recorder for anyone who needs to record their screen in places with restricted screenshots and screencasts, like banking apps, password managers, and co. But on the Android 12 previews, the tool just straight out refused to work. Luckily, the developers found the reason and could work around it in the latest update of scrcpy, v1.18, but you might not like the implications: You'll no longer be able to see blocked apps using the tool.
Now it's even easier to translate text on Android
A new Lens Translate button is showing up on the screenshot pop-up tool
Google Translate is a pretty slick tool, and the way that it's integrated with Google Lens for quickly applying it to text in photos is inspired. The latest tweak to the system on Android brings that functionality front and center. Users on Pixel phones are seeing an extra "Translate" action item in the pop-up screenshot menu, allowing them to get to Google Lens even faster.
Android 12 DP3 lets you swipe away screenshots either left or right
No longer limited to swiping to the right
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Android 11 introduced a new floating screenshot panel with editing and sharing options that pops up at the bottom of your display after taking a screenie, but getting rid of it fast has always been cumbersome. You'd have to aim for a small x in the top right corner of the miniature screenshot preview. Android 12 changes that and allows you to swipe away the screenshot UI. While the first two developer previews only allowed you to swipe to the left, the third release finally allows you to swipe in either direction.
Android 12 screenshot markup tool now features fancy fonts
Still no sign of scrolling screenshots, tho
As a writer for a blog all about Android, I take a lot of screenshots. For example: this article. Android's featured a built-in editor for screenshots for a while now, but it's getting a little more useful in Developer Preview 3 of the upcoming Android 12. If you try out the new release, you'll see a font selection option for the markup tool.
Google adds a microphone toggle to the Chrome OS screen recorder
The new setting lets you record microphone audio with your screen captures
Let's be honest: searching for a decent screen recorder for your Chromebook sucks. Most "free" screen capture software found online requires you to pay an expensive subscription to unlock essential features, like unlimited and high-resolution video recordings. Although a video capture card will give you full control, like the ability to record using your Chromebook's native resolution, not everyone wants to invest in a costly desktop computer. The developers at Google seem to have realized that people don't want to pay a subscription to get decent screen recordings, so they finally decided to add a native solution to Chrome OS.
Chrome to let users take screenshots in incognito mode
You’ll finally be able to share your shame with ease
If you're somewhat wary of your privacy and don't want Google to keep track of all the sites you've visited, you're probably very familiar with Chrome's incognito mode, which allows you to navigate the web in a private session, preventing sites from accessing local cookies, and also removing all temporary data when you're done. While this is very useful for a variety of purposes — I'll let your imagination run wild, Chrome didn't allow users to take screenshots while going incognito until now. Thankfully, this is about to change.
Android 11 won't have scrolling screenshots after all
Google wants to make the feature a framework that other apps can use
One feature that is now extremely common on Android devices is scrolling screenshots, where the phone will scroll through content automatically to create a super-tall image. However, the functionality has yet to appear in stock Android (or Pixel phones), and Google confirmed today that it won't be ready in time for Android 11.
Screenshots are becoming a lot more convenient with Android R. While Google is already planning to implement scrolling screenshot support in the OS update (which, granted, many other OEMs have already done), there's yet another way in Android 11 to share an app's content.
Samsung's custom version of Android, One UI, includes plenty of great features and changes. However, there are also some parts of One UI that are just strange — like how screenshots are saved in the compressed JPEG format, instead of the default PNG format that stock Android uses. Sure, it saves a small bit of storage space, but the images usually look terrible once they are shared.
Screenshot editing made it into stock Android relatively late as it only recently arrived with Android 9. To make up for this oversight, Google seems to be determined to add isolated solutions to as many of its apps as possible and has already equipped Google Photos and Search with their own markup tools. It looks like Chrome is poised to follow as evidence points to yet another screenshot editor, this time meant for the Android version of the browser.
All screenshots aren't created equal, specifically if you snap images directly within the Google application. In February 2018, we discovered that an in-app photo editor had been included in a beta build of the Google search app. After a year and a half of silence regarding its development, this built-in editing feature is showing new signs of life with a revamped UI, rolling out now to the stable version of the Google app.
We all associate the name Mozilla with Firefox and web browsing, but the company has been spreading its wings lately and releasing different kinds of tools. First there was Notes by Firefox, then Lockbox the password manager, followed closely by Firefox Send which shares encrypted files privately. The company now has another tool in beta and, although it has "Firefox" in its name, it's essentially an independent screenshot management tool.