TL;DR
- Android is preparing to update scrolling screenshots so the system automatically deletes the original image after you save the expanded version.
- This change prevents gallery clutter by removing the redundant initial screenshot once the full scrolling capture is saved or shared.
- We spotted this quality-of-life improvement in the latest Android Canary build, and it could arrive in the Android 16 QPR3 stable release next March.
When you want to share something on your screen but don’t want to — or can’t — get a link to the content, you can just take a screenshot. If what you’re trying to capture is too long to fit on screen, you can take a scrolling screenshot to capture more than what the display shows. Scrolling screenshots are a relatively new addition to Android, introduced back in Android 12. Since then, Google has barely touched the feature, but it’s finally preparing a small but welcome quality-of-life improvement.
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