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iOS 26 introduces a full-screen screenshot preview that can be disabled in Settings to revert to the traditional small thumbnail, with additional options for screenshot formats and CarPlay integration.
A leaked screenshot from the upcoming BioShock game, reportedly codenamed 'Parkside', confirms it is indeed a video game. The image shows a player holding a "Ricochet Shotgun" and looking at a glowing orb, with UI elements like a health bar and plasmid powers. The screenshot, allegedly from a 2021 showreel, may depict an early build and is not necessarily indicative of the final product. The game, announced in 2019, is being developed by 2K Cloud Chamber, with no official name yet. Series creator Ken Levine is not involved.
WhatsApp is rolling out an update that prevents users from taking screenshots of contact profile pictures, aiming to enhance privacy and prevent impersonation. While attempting to capture a full-screen profile picture now results in a blank screen, users can still screenshot the mini-profile or profile preview. This change appears to be rolling out via a server-side update and is not limited to specific app builds. Other messaging services like Telegram and Signal currently lack this functionality, and for further privacy, users can hide their profile picture in the app settings.
The article provides seven tips for using the screenshot tool on an iPhone, including highlighting specific areas with the magnifying tool, quickly sharing screenshots by dragging and dropping them into apps, creating a custom shortcut to take screenshots without the thumbnail preview, renaming screenshots as you take them, drawing perfect shapes, and capturing unscreenshotable elements using QuickTime on a Mac. These tips can be used on both iOS and iPadOS.
Microsoft is planning to change the default function of the Print Screen key in Windows 11 to open the Snipping Tool instead of taking a screenshot of the current screen and copying it to the clipboard. The Snipping Tool combines features from the legacy Snipping Tool and Snip & Sketch and offers various capture modes, including rectangular, freeform, window, and full-screen. Users can revert this change by going to the Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard menu and toggling the 'Use the Print Screen key to open Snipping Tool' to off.
Microsoft is testing a change in Windows 11 that will cause the print screen button to open the Windows Snipping Tool instead of copying a screenshot to the clipboard. Users can disable this feature in the Windows 11 Settings or manually through the registry. It is uncertain if this change will make it into the final release of Windows 11.
A bug similar to the "acropalypse" screenshot editing tool vulnerability in Android has been discovered in the Snipping Tool app in Windows 11 and Windows 10's "Snip and Sketch" tool. The bug allows partially recovered data from a cropped screenshot to be accessed, potentially exposing sensitive information. A modified version of the acropalypse script can be used to recover the data, but Microsoft has not yet patched the vulnerability. Workarounds include re-saving the cropped image with another photo-editing app.
A vulnerability in Google's Pixel screenshot editor, Markup, has been discovered that allows users to recover uncropped or unredacted screenshots taken during the past four years. The bug was fixed in the March 2023 security update for Pixel devices, but the last four years of Pixel screenshots may still contain hidden data that people didn't realize they were sharing. Some apps, like Twitter, will recompress any uploaded files, which will delete the hidden data in the screenshot, but others, like Discord, share the original file, making it possible for a third party to uncrop the screenshot.
A security flaw in the Markup tool on Pixel phones, dubbed "Acropalypse," allows hackers to un-redact and uncrop edited screenshots, potentially revealing sensitive information. The vulnerability has been fixed with the March 2023 security update, but screenshots shared before that remain vulnerable. The flaw can be exploited only if the original screenshot file is shared, and messaging and social media apps that compress and re-process shared images are not vulnerable. A technical demo has been devised to check if edited screenshots can be un-redacted.