Do you ever accidentally take a screenshot?

[TH55]

I do this accidentally far more than I do deliberately.

It's a nice feature for certain occasions but I can't say I use it very often.

I accidentally trigger it frequently when I hit the home button to exit an app and then hit the sleep button right after. Often I don't notice I've done it until I open my photos and see an all black image or a picture of my home screen.

I know there is a tweak to disable the feature altogether but I still like to have it for when I need it, such as capturing a texting conversation or a picture on a site that does not permit you to save or copy it.

What would be a good solution to this?

 

[BoricuaHec01]

Umm, I don't really know how you end up accidentally hitting the home and sleep button at the same time. Exit the app, wait a half a second, then hit sleep button.

 

[vastoholic]

Nope.

 

[Zwhaler]

Yes I've done it around half a dozen times or more. But now the home button on my iP4 actually works so infrequently (less than 1/5 times I push it) that this no longer is a problem.

 

[ericrwalker]

I never have, but my wife does often. Not really sure how she does it accidentally, but she does.

 

[mattopotamus]

do you hit the home button and go to lock it at almost the exact same time?

 

[pnoyblazed]

I've done it too.. and when you check the camera roll it shows either the lock screen or just a black screen

 

[jk4lebron23]

I only do it all the time...or accidentally hit the camera when pulling it out of my pocket and taking a picture of the ground

 

[pgiguere1]

I do this quite often as well.

I've always found it funny that it's so hard to do a screenshot on a Mac, yet so easy (too easy?) on an iPhone.

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

Train yourself to use the same hand to exit the app and sleep the phone.

 

[nlkccom]

Never had that issue.

 

[Mrbobb]

Ur finger-brain interface is on auto-pilot. The trick is to introduce a delay, a disruption, even delete that auto-pilot and let your brain re-learn/reprogram a new script with a new timing.

When I tell that to my GF she gives me the "you are suck a geek" look. BUT that's what it is! That's a much more satisfying answer to me than "well just be careful not to push..."

 

[marsmissions]

Only all of the time.

 

[biohead]

All the time.

Mainly happens when I pull it out of my pocket in my jeans, I must knock the power button as I pull it out, and I usually use the home button to turn the screen on.

 

[jlake02]

The only time this happens to me is when I'm trying to do a hard reset of the phone.

 

[sdyoyo]

All the time as well

 

[Blueline29]

Occasionally while trying to do a hard reset but I don't think I've ever done it accidentally apart from that.

 

[gentlefury]

I never have, but my wife does often. Not really sure how she does it accidentally, but she does.

my gf is always accidentally activating Siri and I have no idea how.

 

[iF34R]

I've done it just before deleting text messages I didn't want anyone to see. When someone looked at my pics that were "streamed", I got into a little trouble lol.

 

[UHFrank]

sometimes my phone lags when i hit the lock/unlock button on top, then i quickly go to the home button, by the time i hit the home button the screen comes on, and i accidentally take a screen shot

 

[Daveoc64]

Yes, I've had it happen a few times.

Often the picture is blank, because the phone has turned off the screen by the time it actually takes the screenshot.

 

[Looon]

Yeah I totally accidentally took a picture of this girl a few times too and I was like stupid iPhone. She didn't even believe me

 

[Ntombi]

Nope.

 

[jer9542]

occasionally, but I find it often happens I'm taking it out of my pocket, or vice-versa .

 

[s15119]

I do it occasionally. My best solution is to delete the errant photo and move on.