How to take screenshots on your Android phone

Screenshots are useful. You can use them to show your grandparents how to use a new app. You can use them to send a shot of that strange error message to your company’s IT department. You can use them to capture tweets, yours or someone else’s, before they disappear through the deletion black hole.

There are two ways to take a screenshot of your Android device’s screen. (We assume that your phone is loaded with Android 9 or later):

• Press and hold the power button. You will get a popup on the right side of your screen with icons that allow you to shutdown, restart, call an emergency number or take a screenshot. OR…
• Hold down the power button and press the button to decrease the volume

Either way, after taking the screenshot, it will briefly appear as a smaller version and then disappear. A drop-down menu will briefly appear at the top informing you that the screenshot is being saved, and then it will be replaced by another drop-down menu which, if you touch it, will allow you to share or delete the screenshot or make some basic modifications. . That box will disappear after a few seconds, but if you check your top left notification bar, you’ll find one for that screenshot.

Some Android phones (for example, certain Samsung and Huawei phones) allow you to take “long” screenshots, where you can scroll the screen down and capture the entire page. Check your phone’s support pages if you think you might have that. It can be useful.

If you want to find all your past screenshots:

• Go to your Photos app
• Tap the three parallel lines in the upper left corner
• Select “Device Folders”> “Screenshots”