Wait a second, does the app know that I'm taking a screenshot?
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
#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
My Samsung A40 from 2019 has an unlock bootloader option in the Developer Options. I didn't check what it does neither I googled it but it's promising.
The presence of the "Allow OEM bootloader unlock" is NOT an indication that the bootloader is unlockable, sadly.
Most samsung phone are unlockable. But it have a e-fuse to prevent you re-locking it
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try the Tesco Clubcard app. On taking a screenshot you will get a toast saying: "Can't take screenshot due to security policy". This is what I'm referring to in my post above.
Like "disable right click" on websites I really struggle to see how this is useful to Tesco in any way. It's trivial to bypass. What's their threat model here?
I don't know about Tesco but I believe it's common on bank apps to prevent malware from screen grabbing your details when your bank app is open.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#274You can use scrcpy ( https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy ) to bypass the policy if you really need to have a screenshot. All you need is to have a Linux laptop at hand, debug mode enabled, and a USB cable plugged in. Super simple stuff right? (this is satire!) Now, I'm as frustrated as anybody else here that I'm forbidden to use whatever feature I want from MY phone, for which I paid, with MY MOENY (and nobody else'…
Don't use apps. Aside from games and sensor integration they can rarely offer more than a web-based experience. Push for more safe hardware sensor integration in browsers.
Banks often have apps which are quite useful compared to their web-based counterparts. Of course, it doesn't need to be that way, but it's the way things work now.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#275What's exceptionally stupid is that all I have to do is point a camera at the screen. DRM for the fail, yet again.
It's a security measure, not a DRM measure. The risk of pointing a camera at the screen is not the kind of attack which this is meant to prevent.
…what kind of attack is this meant to prevent?
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#276Wait a second, does the app know that I'm taking a screenshot?
Yes. For example when you take a screenshot of a message in Snapchat, the sender is notified.
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#277Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#278I will especially hate this when I'm trying to translate something. If I can't copy and paste text into a translate app, the next step would be to take a screenshot and then use OCR. Of course if I'm really determined there are ways to still do a translation. I can only imagine what sort of problem is mighy arise for someone with accessibility issues.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
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Well if it does, I should have absolute power to disable it. My phone, my screenshots.
This is meant for company provided phones. So it's not your phone, it's your company's phone.
individual apps can prevent screenshots as well. My bank doesn't allow screenshots in it's app.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#280It's blocking you from taking screenshots today. It's blocking you from disabling location services tomorrow.
It should be noted that there are legitimate reasons for blocking screenshots; on corporate managed devices handling sensitive data e.g. files or PDFs for example. Obviously if the device is owned by the company then the company is well within its rights to control what functionality is available (just as a solo user is within their rights to control what the device is doing at all times). This is a bug where the dev…
> there are legitimate reasons for blocking screenshots
Couldn't someone anyways display the content on one screen and take a photograph with another device. For text content, the degradation of image quality doesn't even matter. Doesn't that make screenshot-blocking a pointless exercise?