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  • On iOS, if you swipe control center down and then back up but don’t lift your finger, the screenshot will not have the logo. I do this with Twitter so my screenshots don’t have the X logo.
    by rmwaite
  • Interesting that this works. I know I have been frustrated recently when trying to take a screenshot of a bank transfer or something similar, but I couldn't find which app that was to test again. I tested on the iOS Passwords app, and I couldn't get the trick to work in that. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong, or it only works in specific apps.

    Each time I tried to take a screenshot of a password, the password was missing from the screenshot - even when I kept the control centre pulled down far enough that the Password app was starting to look blurry.

    by red369
  • Also Read : https://sites.google.com/view/8-best-iptv-2026/
    by bansiwebix
  • This is why pocket computers are still so unserious. My programs should not be aware let alone respond to my administrative actions like screenshots.
    by wraptile
  • They don't respond to it. It simply says "this button is part of sensitive content", and the OS itself hides the sensitive content, revealing the image below it
    by voidUpdate
  • Not only 'pocket computers' are an issue. I was thoroughly shocked when I found out that websites can detect that the dev-tools are open. That is something that a website should never be able to know, yet here we are.
    by 8-prime
  • Nobody in the comments talking about snapchat where like one of the core pillars of what "sets their service apart" is the difficulty of taking a screenshot without notifying the other party
    by internetter
  • Wasn’t that the entire premise of the product when it launched? Disappearing messages and minimal footprint so you could be confident your communications were semi-private?

    That was the expectation of using the product so it fits and isn’t anything like this discussion.

    by Mtinie
  • Well, I have not once found a single case where an app reacting to screenshots and controlling the process in any way was anything to me but hostile and annoying. This one does not help.

    It somehow is perfect example of how modern software engineering feels to go astray for me. A feature in my device working completely in benefit of the one providing said software. I wish, and wish only I can, that this trend goes away at some point.

    by 3form
  • This is what made me avoid chrome since release, I tried to right click a youtube channel background as a teen wanting to use it as a template to make my own channel background on photoshop... turns out they had disabled it, while I could on firefox.
    by dev1ycan
  • I also despise this "screenshot blocking" stuff. A device listens is supposed to me, not to the apps. I want a screenshot to be a copy of the raw pixels, and an app should not know about it or have a right to know about it.

    Of course this is doable on open source OSes like GrapheneOS, it just sucks that you have to keep modifying the OS every time they release a new version

    by qurren
  • Side note- The Screenshot culture itself needs to die, sorry. Many a time, a share button simply works. I don’t know why people would share a screenshot or a map instead of pin and share their location. Yes there are cases where a screenshot helps but majority cases simply is “come to this place” a which turns out to make more difficult because people apparently don’t know how to share locations with pin and share!
    by tchalla
  • There should be a layer of user control where the user can make the OS lie to the app. The app has no need to know when a screenshot or recording is happening, what the real location is, what file system contents are, etc.
    by xnx
  • When I take a screenshot in ChatGPT, it shows a "share this chat?" toast at the top.

    The toast shows up after the screenshot, but my phones's long screenshot feature captures the top part a second time, so the top part of the chat becomes unreadable.

    by andai
  • It still baffles me that it has become normal for an OS to place the wishes of an app above those of the user.

    Hijacking the screenshot process is a privilege that you ought to be able to revoke, it's insane to allow software to be given more control.

    And don't tell me it's anything to do with security when it can be circumvented in any number of ways.

    by shiandow
  • > hostile and annoying

    If someone from Google Maps or LinkedIn team is here, please, when I take a screenshot it's because I want to a screenshot, not share the friggin location/post.

    Not sure who got the idea that it was useful, it isn't.

    by fer
  • It is actually astonishing to me that this is not something which can be turned off at the OS level, or as a permission setting in the app permissions.

    The app knowing I took a screenshot feels adjacent to me to a keylogger. Imagine how many apps are capturing that information silently. To my mind, a screenshot is something that is happening outside of the app context, the app knowing about it is a security flaw imo.

    by thepasswordis
  • This is in fact a watermark to promote the application, which otherwise wouldn't be recognizable since Bluesky looks like every other microblogging app. I didn't know that Sam literally named the file GrowthHack.tsx, which is pretty funny.
    by pfraze
  • I mean, X does the exact same thing
    by dbbk
  • > which otherwise wouldn't be recognizable since Bluesky looks like every other microblogging app.

    The text at the top of the screenshot is

    > Eric Roston

    > @eroston.bsky.social

    So it's pretty easy to tell IMHO.

    by yjftsjthsd-h
  • I can't help but respect the dev's self-awareness
    by red_hare
  • Actually, I’m a little worried by what this post demonstrates but not the logo or the use of the api.

    I’m worried that switching apps and screenshots _doesn’t_ put the logo in. If the point of the switch is privacy, isn’t that a bug? Shouldn’t it apply the privacy screen during any screenshot? What if there was sensitive information on there when you were switching and taking the screenshot?

    by chewbacha
  • Can they do something similar so that caps include the full date/time? I hate when caps are perpetually “1 hour ago”.
    by YesThatTom2
  • If you're mad at Bluesky for doing this, I think you're mad at the wrong party. Modifying intent is problematic and can be abused (although I think there's nothing particularly problematic about this particular instance). The real problem is that you have next to no possibility of modifying the behavior. On an OS that respects user freedom, there would by a myriad ways of intercepting what the software is doing to get your desired result. On iOS, you're at the mercy of Apple. I think we should be mad at Apple for normalizing a computing culture that views user freedom as a security risk, potentially something that should be outlawed (thinking of age verification).
    by c7b
  • This is phone OS developer's fault for even allowing it. When I take a screenshot, I expect to have an image of exactly whatever was displayed on the screen at the time. Its not a picture of your app, its a picture of my screen. Some banking apps used to (or still) prevent this and now some apps get a hook to insert their branding. My device serves some master other than myself.
    by skiing_crawling
  • The thing that really irritates me about the banking apps blocking screenshots is that it's pretty clear to me it's not about protecting customers but denying customers the ability to document something related to their account.
    by KennyBlanken
  • So...

    > and now some apps get a hook to insert their branding.

    No, apps can already insert their branding anywhere they want. They're writing the app. If they want their logo to be visible in screenshots, they have infinite ways to do that.

    This particular way seems basically prosocial. It's much more useful to me as a consumer of the screenshot to see that it came from Bluesky than to see that there was a "Follow" button. It's not what the feature they're using was intended for, but I can't call it an abuse of the feature. What they're actually doing is good.

    The fact that you're getting unexpected behavior isn't good. Sometimes you want to create a picture of sensitive information. You should be able to override the app developer's security settings.

    by thaumasiotes
  • Bluesky trick exposes how strange the abstraction is
    by ErigmolCt
  • iOS allows something similar. twitter (X) will also add a logo. I believe reddit did the same but i stopped using their app a while ago.
    by spike021
  • Bank apps black out the whole screen when I take a screenshot and it’s super annoying. As a user, I should be able to take a screenshot of my screen. I can use a camera or another phone to do it anyway.
    by asaddhamani