How to reduce the weight of screenshots on Samsung

Most Android users in Europe take a screenshot every now and then. If we do a lot of it, chances are these captures will end up taking up a lot of space on the phone. There are brands like Samsung that offer us functions so that these screenshots take up less space on our smartphone.

Power configure certain aspects of these captures screen, like their format, reduces their weight and therefore the space they occupy on our Samsung smartphone. If you want to reduce its weight, there are a number of aspects that we can adjust on the phone.

How to take a screenshot in any app

If you want to take a screenshot in an Android app that doesn’t allow it, there are several methods that allow it.

Reduce the weight of your captures on Samsung

Samsung gives us enough options to customize screenshots, as well as the screen recordings we make. If we take captures or recordings regularly, they end up taking up a lot of space on the phone. A few simple adjustments to the phone can help us reduce its weight so that it occupies less. The steps to follow in this case are:

1. Open settings.
2. Enter advanced features.
3. Go to Screen Capture and Recording.
4. Click on the capture format and select JPG (it weighs less than PNG).
5. In video quality, select 480 or 720p, which takes up less space than 1080p, if you don’t need the best quality in your screen recordings.

These steps allow us to reduce the weight of the captures or recordings we make on the phone. These are a few simple tweaks, such as the capture format, which in JPG weighs much less than in PNG (format which is more used in countries like the United States), which will have a big impact on the space they occupy on our smartphone.

The screen recordings we do at Samsung are something that will take longer, so reduce the quality of these recordings it’s a pretty quick and easy way to make them take up less space on your phone. If at any time you want to record again with the best quality, just change this setting again.