Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
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Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#2It was a bug - this time. It's not your phone, you're just using it.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#3Anyone else noticed that you can't take screenshots on Android when using Chrome Incognito mode? "Can't take screenshot due to security policy". I don't understand the rationale behind it. Why can't I take a screenshot of my own phone?
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#4At least Apple has not done anything as user-hostile as this, yet.
On iOS the balance of control is still in the user's favor, not the apps', and increasing with every release (like discrete permissions, limited location sharing, being able to choose which photos each app can see).
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#5>Removing the ".nomedia" file from my snapshot folder solved the issue. Not sure whether I created the file or not, but apparently excluding it from the library breaks snapshots. Hope this helps!
That seems like it.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#6Anyone else noticed that you can't take screenshots on Android when using Chrome Incognito mode? "Can't take screenshot due to security policy". I don't understand the rationale behind it. Why can't I take a screenshot of my own phone?
Maybe "Incognito mode doesn't persist any information" vs "Incognito mode doesn't silently persist any information"?
The latter has more opportunity for confusion. Just a guess, I don't know what the rationale is.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#7It was a bug - this time. It's not your phone, you're just using it.
It’s to prevent you screenshotting snaps / disappearing messages sent to you or to prevent screenshotting licensed content. This is good for 99% of the people.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#8Fun fact: 5/6 years ago, a bunch of Huawei phones came with world readable /dev/fb0 (framebuffer) device files.
This made it trivial for any application to read the display, totally bypassing any Android screenshot/screen recording API (not that one existed at the time). Some of those devices also had readable /dev/event/input* files, which allowed touchscreen interaction to be monitored.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#9It was a bug - this time. It's not your phone, you're just using it.
It’s to prevent you screenshotting snaps / disappearing messages sent to you or to prevent screenshotting licensed content. This is good for 99% of the people.
Can it prevent the user from taking a photo of the phone screen with a different device?
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#10It was a bug - this time. It's not your phone, you're just using it.
It’s to prevent you screenshotting snaps / disappearing messages sent to you or to prevent screenshotting licensed content. This is good for 99% of the people.
local public transport service uses this block for their app. To make it harder to casually fake app tickets.