Hate The New iPhone Screenshot Process? Here’s How To Bring Back The Old One.

The screenshots I take on my phone are my second brain. They remember the conversations, funny memes, weeknight recipes, and any other useful or reassuring bit of knowledge I find in my ceaseless phone searches.To be or not, I am what I screenshot, which is why I found the iOS 26 update that changed the process for screenshotting so frustrating.Tech: So Many People Are Falling For This Sneaky Instagram Scam — Here’s What You Need To KnowUnder the iOS 26 software update for iPhones, saving screenshots takes annoyingly more steps. Before that update, you simply could press the “volume up” button and the side button simultaneously to log and save what you captured in a screenshot. Now, screenshots you take are not automatically saved to your camera roll. Instead, your screen will prompt you with more options, such as copying and deleting your screenshot, saving it to files or saving it to photos.But for those of us who only take screenshots to save them to peruse later, these options are one extra step too many.The good news is if you love instant screenshots like I do, you can revert back to the old screenshot function by switching up your settings.Here’s how: Go to your phone’s Settings option, then select General and scroll down until you see the option for Screen Capture. From there, you need to toggle off Full-Screen Previews, which put full screenshots in preview for you to take action upon. This way, you will go back to just seeing a small temporary thumbnail when you take a screenshot that will automatically get saved.Toggling off "Full-Screen Previews" makes taking and saving screenshots seamless once more. Illustration: HuffPost; Photos: GettyIn general, the latest features for iPhones are a mixed bag of usefulness. Uploading your passport into your phone’s digital wallet is convenient but comes with later privacy risks. Enabling the option to add end-to-end encryption for your iCloud backups, however, was a great step forward for iPhone privacy.This update I would put in the category of unnecessary and mildly inconvenient for people who love their tried-and-true system of using their phone to be their second brain. If you use screenshots to remember your days, you want this form of memory-keeping to be just a single convenient tap, and toggling off “Full-Screen Previews” is your easy way to do so.Related...Apple Has A New Digital ID And Passport Feature On iPhones — But Security Experts Have ThoughtsThis 1 Hidden iPhone Feature Could Instantly Make Your Online Data Safer — And It’s Easy To ActivateThis Sneaky Scam Is Targeting iPhone Users — And It’s Alarmingly EffectiveRead the original on HuffPost