watchOS 27.2 Code Hints at iPhone-Style Screenshot Previews

Useless.

Hell no. What a stupid feature. It’s not “easy to accidentally take a screen shot” as you describe. No one accidentally presses both side buttons at once. This just adds an extra step to an already awkward process.

Sure they do. I have screenshots turned on, on my Watch, because I want to take them occasionally, and I get accidental screenshots from time to time.

Totally agreed though on the extra steps. The "automatic full screen preview of screenshots" is one of the first things I turn off on iPhone and iPad - frequently I want a screenshot of something that's happening in real time (like layout of pieces in a real-time game), and I DO NOT WANT the screen taken over by the "here's your new screenshot, what would you like to do with it" "feature" - great, now you pulled me out of the game for 5 seconds and I lost the round - I wanted that screenshot to look at LATER, not now.

It's already infuriating that if I take a screenshot on the Watch of my current stats in the fitness app while exercising, it "helpfully" pauses the workout. 🤬 I've had once or twice where I'll exercise for 30 minutes and find that the last 15 minutes wasn't recorded, because I took a screenshot and the app decided to pause the workout for some ****ing reason. I don't want any extra "help" from Apple with screenshots on the Watch. There better be a way to turn this off.

ETA: going on a clue from elsewhere in this thread, I worked out that pausing the workout is an intentional overloading of this combination press by Apple. Fortunately, in Settings > Workout it's possible to switch off what they call "Press to Pause".

(Related, when they added the buttons for asking AI about the screenshot, to the full-screen screenshot UI, they seem to have removed the button for OCR - you can still select and copy text from a screenshot, but it tries much less hard when not in OCR mode, so it doesn't always work now. I've been in the habit for a while now, of if an app puts text on the screen I want to copy, and it doesn't make it selectable, I'll hit screenshot, tap the thumbnail to go fullscreen, then select and copy the text from there, and dismiss the fullscreen UI with "X" so it doesn't add the screenshot to my photo library.)

I have the screenshot feature turned off anyways. They’re not really useful on my watch.

I've never taken a screenshot of my watch that wasn't accidental....

I wish Apple would do a pass on watchOS design to remove all of the scrolls required to reach buttons. So much scrolling in the OS, it drives me bananas. I feel like they could get more creative.

It used to be so much better with 3D Touch until they made the stupid decision to remove it. Instead of scrolling to reach the "clear all" button, I could tap on the screen anywhere in the list and tap clear. So many other things were quicker with it.

They need to bring this back to the watch and the iPhone.

SHARING screenshots is very useful!