Android and IOS phones have become part of our lives. We have been unable to live without a phone when we talk about video talks, photos, social media, navigation. The positive and negative sides of this change emerged. One of the negatives is technical problems. We tried to deal with many things like crashes, viruses, memory issues. In this article, we will mention one of them.
Taking Screenshots on Android Phones
On Android phones, we can take a screenshot of our screen and share or archive it. Although it varies from phone to phone, generally very easy methods are determined in all devices. To do this on ASUS phones, simply press the power and volume down buttons for a few seconds. On HTC phones, you can take a screenshot by pressing the volume keys simultaneously with the power or HOME key. In HUAWEI, it is enough to press and hold the power and volume down buttons for a few seconds, pull down the notification panel, switch to shortcuts and touch the early image icon. Many models generally use power key / HOME key + volume keys combination. In some android versions, you can also take a screenshot by moving the palm of your hand to the left or right on the screen.
Recently, it has been seen that some phones with Android operating system take screenshots by themselves. This method, which is not under the control of the user, also shows a vulnerability. When you call “My Android phone is taking screenshots / taking pictures by itself,” you will encounter different solutions. When we look at the ways to prevent this, we generally see that the problem is tried to be determined first. This process, which starts with the revocation of the permissions of the applications, eventually goes back to the phone’s factory settings. However, resetting the phone is not what most of us prefer. Try the things to do in the following order:
- Check if your apps are using the permission to take pictures without your knowledge. See application permissions.
- If there is no problem with application permissions, see if the screen capture feature is activated by hand gesture.
We have seen that those who do the above generally do not solve the problem, but these are the first things to look at in any case. Now we show you a different solution.
One of Your Applications Can Be Malicious
We use many applications on our phones. Some may serve different purposes, or our security information may be leaked out through that application. If the above solutions do not help you, it is one of the applications that allows your Android phone to take a screenshot of itself, possibly malicious or discovered a deficit. You can identify this application as follows:
- Go to Play Store.
- Open the title of “My apps & games“.
- Go to the Installed tab.
- Set your installed apps to “Last Used“.
- There, you will see one of the applications that you have not used in the last hour.
- The phone we used had “Touch VPN”. (On our test phone)
- Uninstall that app from your phone.
*** You can add such applications as a comment to this article.
