With so much content being shared online, its sometimes tempting to want to take screenshots of whatever you see. But you never know if the app youre browsing through is sending notifications to the other person whose pictures you might be taking screenshots of.

Starting with Snapchat and gradually moving over to Instagram (and discontinued later), social media apps started alerting users when their pictures, videos or chats were being screenshotted of. While theres nothing stopping you from taking a screenshot, it might sometimes be embarrassing when the other user is being alerted of your screenshots.

To save you from such a scenario, weve now found a way to take screenshots secretly on Snapchat and any app that detects screenshots and notifies the other user.

Note: Every time you need to take screenshots secretly, you need to run the Private Screenshots app, let it record everything, go to Snapchat/similar app, take a screenshot using its screenshot button (only!), and then come back Private Screenshots app to stop the recording.

Private Screenshots has a presentation mode that captures a phone screens content for the time its switched on for. The screenshot button then saves the picture into an image file and the entire process ensures no broadcast message has been sent about the screenshot.

Another quirky feature about the app is that the files saved by Private Screenshots cannot be accessed by other apps on the phone. This is because the app saves all the images into a hidden directory inside your storage.

Note:

Private Screenshots does not work on Netflix, private chats on Telegram, Tor Browser or Incognito mode inside Chrome. The app will instead display a black screen or an error when capturing.

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