How to Take a Screenshot on Android

Published 9 Dec 2016

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Taking a screenshot is not particularly difficult on Android. However, sometimes OEMs in a bid to separate their skin from others end up changing even this simple aspect of the OS. This means that the universal key combination of pressing the Volume down + Power button for a few seconds might not work on all Android devices out there.

So to make your life easier and saving you from the hassles of going through the steps of finding the right away to take a screenshot on your Android device, we are rounding up the various ways that you can take screenshots on different Android devices. Some Android devices even offer ways to merge multiple screenshots into one, which we will be duly detailing in our how-tos.