--- title: "Hate The New iPhone Screenshot Process? Here’s How To Bring Back The Old One." type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/272836441.md" description: "The recent iOS 26 update for iPhones has changed the screenshot process, making it more cumbersome by requiring additional steps to save screenshots. Users can revert to the old method by disabling the 'Full-Screen Previews' option in the settings, allowing for a more seamless screenshot experience. While some new features in iOS are beneficial, this update is seen as unnecessary by those who rely on quick and easy screenshot functionality." datetime: "2026-01-16T12:00:18.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/272836441.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/272836441.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/272836441.md) --- > Supported Languages: [简体中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/272836441.md) | [繁體中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/272836441.md) # 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 Know** Under 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: Getty In 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 Thoughts - This 1 Hidden iPhone Feature Could Instantly Make Your Online Data Safer — And It’s Easy To Activate - This Sneaky Scam Is Targeting iPhone Users — And It’s Alarmingly Effective **Read the original on HuffPost** ### Related Stocks - [Apple Inc. (AAPL.US)](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/AAPL.US.md) ## Related News & Research - [Apple releases security fix for older iPhones and iPads to protect against DarkSword attacks](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281413474.md) - [Apple Intelligence briefly appears in Chinese mainland before withdrawal](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281116116.md) - [Apple turns 50. Here's how it can shake its midlife crisis.](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281198108.md) - [iPhone Maker Apple Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281373049.md) - [Best iPad apps to boost productivity and make your life easier](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281659372.md)