How to Take a Screenshot on Galaxy S3

Is there something on your Samsung Galaxy S3 that you want to save and send to your friends? Taking screenshots is a great way to do that. See Step 1 to start learning how to take a screenshot.

Table of Contents

Manual Screen Capture

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Hold down the Power key and the Home key at the same time to take a screenshot of your S3 phone. You will hear the camera shutter sound indicating that the screen has been successfully captured and saved to your photo library.

Using Motion Feature on Android 4.0

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Run your Settings app.

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Tap Motion.

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Scroll down to “Hand Motion”.

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Select “Palm Swipe to Capture”, and check the checkbox. Close the menu.

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Place your hand across the edge of the screen and swipe across the screen. You will hear the camera shutter sound indicating that the screen has been successfully captured and saved to your photo library.

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Complete.

Steps

Manual Screen Capture

Using Motion Feature on Android 4.0

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