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I always remove this data from my screenshots before sharing, but is there any way to prevent this from happening in the first place? I've searched and searched, but all I can find is information about how to remove the data after the fact, which I already know how to do, but it would sure be nice if it never got added in the first place. Thanks.
Is this all the metadata it adds?
Because the information you've shown here is not at all sensitive. It's just the timestamp, Android version and time zone.
I knew I'd get a comment like this eventually. There's no rational reason it should be adding this data at all, and there should be a way to disable this behavior. The camera I use doesn't add this data when I take a photo, and there's no reason taking a screenshot should do so.
The software version doesn't just say "Android 14" either. It looks very specific.
No matter how you look at it, this is not an acceptable way for a device to behave, with no way to change it in settings.
https://xkcd.com/1172/
I don't share screenshot frequently, and I store them for a long time, in 10 years in the future this data can be useful, I won't remember what phone and rom I had, so it can be useful for some people. I also store gps data in my photos' exifs, but again I never share them on the public internet.
But a button to switch it onoff would be useful, that's true.
Yeah. In my opinion, it's more of Samsung's bullshit. There's really no conceivable reason not to give users the option to avoid having metadata saved with their screenshots. It's super annoying because I have to open it with a third-party app, strip the metadata, save the stripped image, then delete the original (which I rarely do, because it's so time consuming already, so it's taking up twice the amount of storage for me).
I did find a third-party screenshot app that doesn't save metadata, but it's problematic in its own way, so I won't use it.
I'll just keep stripping it manually. It's a pita though, and I feel like there should be an easy solution. A lot of users in this thread say their phones don't save metadata in their screenshots, but I'm unfortunate enough to have a Samsung.
I'm running official Lineage, and it saves this data and I found no button for it, so I guess it's not just Samsung only..
You can automate stuff like this on android, Easer and Automation are well known FOSS apps for these kind of tasks. IIRC in Easer you can call terminal commands
Nice. This will take a bit of learning, but if I can figure it out, it can save me a bunch of time! Thanks!