router99 Never saw this message before the most recent update to G**gle Maps. Comes off as some kind of "remember, we're aware of your activity" kind of warning. It's never an apps' business whether or not one takes a screenshot. How does one disable the ability of an app to detect this? Here's the message that popped up. Couldn't find another mention of it via a web search. https://i.ibb.co/fVspPZLM/Screenshot-20250924-132538-1.png
DeletedUser433 router99 Did you take that screenshot in Google Maps itself? It would probably be able to detect whether you were interested by checking how long it took for you to change pages. So removing the screenshot detection capability wouldn't change things much
dhhdjbd i think this is also used by apps to block screenshots, like for exmaple in banking apps it is often not possible to take a screenshot of something
deltuzirtu Can the built-in recording feature be detected? If not, could GOS use this as a workaround: record 1 frame of the screen, then from the resulting video, extract this one frame image?
deltuzirtu freezet so an app can also decide if you are allowed to record your own device? Android truly sucks
Vsratoslav deltuzirtu every time I get this 'mandatory forced password entry request' after longer time unlocking with fingerprint, I want to fuck the phone into a wall. I should decide about my passwords and do i need a reminder or not, not my phone. Here android overcomes even iOS.
Novalissoide deltuzirtu app can also decide if you are allowed to record your own device? Security feature, makes a rouge app less likely to silently screenshot your activity for nefarious purposes.
Byku Vsratoslav Even a password manager like KeePassDX allows you to disable mandatory password reminder. I call this concept security by nagging and it's no security at all. Same with dangerous permissions reminder spamming it's notification constantly if you give accessibility permissions to an app. Boy that one pisses me off. It spams every day until you are forced to install yet another app just to automatically cancel that notification for you. And now if a new app gets this permission you will not know because you were so fed up by this notification that you were looking for a way to remove it, so the whole purpose of this reminder becomes obsolete.
h4ec6j Spotify does this too. A workaround is going to the open apps view and using the screenshot button, which doesn't appear to trigger detection.
deltuzirtu h4ec6j even this can fail if an app decides it hides its contents from app view, and doesn't allow you to disable it. Vanadium in incognito mode does this, for example (however in this case, you can disable this in chrome flags)
DeletedUser622 deltuzirtu I wish GOS supported screenshots regardless of an app thinks about it without letting it know.