Useful Tips for iOS 11 Screenshot Feature - How to Take Screenshot, Edit Screenshot and Share Screenshot

Updated Oct 27,2017 | by Shannon

A lot of persons are usually very surprised as soon as they update their iPhone to iOS 11. They no longer meet the usual screenshot experience. This time, right after every screenshot, they see a little thumbnail. Tapping on this little thumbnail would welcome you into the latest screenshot features of the iOS 11. Here are some tips for the iOS 11 screenshot feature.

l  How to Take a Screenshot on iPhone in iOS 11

Taking a screenshot on iPhone has always remained the way it had always been; only that, this time, there is an improvement. You will still have to simultaneously hold down on the power button (sleep/wake button) and the Home button of your iPhone. Once you do this, you will find out that a thumbnail of the recent capture will appear at the bottom left of your iPhone screen. The thumbnail will remain for about a few seconds for you to interact with it, otherwise, it will quickly go away. To make the thumbnail go away even quicker, all you have to do is to swipe it to the left part of your screen.

l  Tips and New Tools to Edit Your Screenshot

To edit your screenshot in iOS 11, you only have to easily tap on the thumbnail that appears after capture. Below are several tips and tools on how to edit your screenshot:

Ÿ   Writing Tools

To write on your screenshot, you will have to make use of the exciting editing tools. At your disposal are pen, marker, and pencil tools of various colors which you can use to write anything. The eraser tool is also available to assist you in erasing any mess you may have made.

Ÿ   Crop Tool

You also have available to you the usual crop option to help you adjust the size of the screenshot. You could also zoom in on any area you are interested in highlighting.

Ÿ   Add Text and Signature Tool

To add text, you only have to tap on + icon, tap on text box, and lastly edit.

Also, the screenshot tool provides you with the possibility of quickly signing documents on the go. You could save your signature, and then all you have to do is drag and drop on whichever document you want to sign.

Ÿ   Moving Drawings

There are times when you draw a big circle around something, and then you suddenly realize you have drawn it on the wrong area. All you have to do is to tap the digital lesson tool and tap on the object you would like to move.

Ÿ   Pre-set Shapes Tool

There are several conventional shapes available which you can select into your screenshot.

l  Share Your Screenshot

It is very easy to share your screenshots in iOS 11. You do not have to go through your photos just to share your screenshots with somebody. You only have to press and hold on the thumbnail, and the “share sheet” will display. You can now choose to share your screenshot whichever way you would like to.

l  How to Quickly Deleted All Screenshots

In iOS 11, there is a new Screenshots Album in Photos app. All the saved screenshots in the past will be remain in this album. You just go to Photos, choose Screenshots album, and manage all delete them as other photos. 

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