~ MamakTalk ~: Quirky Scrolling Screenshots Are Now Live In Android 12 Beta 3

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Android 12 Beta 3 is live and it’s bringing scrolling screenshots features with it. That’s according to recent reports, following the feature’s discovery in the latest build.

Summarily, scrolling screenshots allow users to capture more than just what fits on a single screen. As shown in the images below, for instance, users can capture the full Settings menu on a single capture. That’s as opposed to needing to take a screen video or multiple screenshots.

How is Android 12 scrolling screenshots different from similar features elsewhere?

Now, that’s all very straightforward. Especially since some companies, such as Samsung, have included scrolling screenshots for several years now. To use the feature, users simply take a screenshot via any of the usual methods. Then they’ll see a new “Capture more” button in the resulting on-screen pop-up prompt. Specifically, placed all the way at the right-hand side of that prompt.

But scrolling screenshots at the Android 12 level won’t exactly work as it does with the OEM-specific versions of the feature either. And some users may find it a bit quirky, by comparison.

Instead of actively moving through to capture content either one page at a time or in a smooth-scrolling fashion, Android 12 captures the whole page or app in one go, when the “Capture more” button is pressed. Then, users need to use crop-like tools to whittle things down to just what they want to capture. Of course, Google also provides a magnified segment UI, as shown in the images below. That lets users keep track of exactly where they’re presently touching. Which should prove useful, particularly on larger captures.

This won’t work everywhere either, for now

The biggest caveat to Android 12 scrolling screenshots is that they don’t work in every app. Or at least that’s the case as of this iteration, in beta. As noted by the source, they won’t, for example, work for websites such as those displayed in Google Chrome. Meaning that users can’t simply capture a single screenshot and then scroll to capture the full site page. And that’s also the case in other apps with scrolling, apparently.

Google may change that drawback before the final release, however. It may simply be the case that Chrome and other apps don’t have access to or haven’t implemented an API or other code to support the feature. Or Google may intend this to not get a fix until much later on — if at all.

Android 12 is presently expected to land in the fall of this year.

Android 12 Scrolling Screenshots from 9to5Google