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title: "How to take screenshots on an Android phone and Tablet"  
description: "Hi everyone in this article I am telling you how to take screenshots on an Android phone or Tablet"  
author: "Manoj Pandey"  
published: 2015-03-28  
updated: 2019-09-07  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1695/how-to-take-screenshots-on-an-android-phone-and-tablet  
category: "mobile/tablet"  
tags: ["mobile device"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# How to take screenshots on an Android phone and Tablet

[Android](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1567/navigation-drawer-implementation-in-android) provides features to take screenshot on your device. Android have different – different [version](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12845/things-to-remember-while-migrating-odoo-to-a-better-version) and have different- different steps to take screenshot in your device. If you are using Android 2.3 bellow version then you cannot take screenshot because android does not provides this features but some [devices](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/301912/how-smart-devices-are-changing-our-lives) have this features for example [Samsung phone](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36973/how-do-i-repair-a-samsung-phone-dropped-in-water). In Android [Google](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1191/top-products-and-services-from-google) Play have some apps which help to takes screenshot, these apps will help for Android lower version. \

##### If you’re Running Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and above

##### In android you have need two buttons Volume button and Power button. For

##### take screenshot follow below steps.

##### 1. Open screen which you want to take screenshot

![How to take screenshots on an Android phone and Tablet](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/ec0916ea-4b41-430f-ac8a-6e94b2e75675/images/e3039a4f-7b32-4a93-bfb7-c6213d121cfb.png)

2. Press Volume and Power buttons simultaneously in your phone

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![How to take screenshots on an Android phone and Tablet](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/ec0916ea-4b41-430f-ac8a-6e94b2e75675/images/9b23d688-5c66-4504-8be0-38579c093614.png)\

3. After press both [button](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/63/how-to-add-button-in-datagridview-in-csharp-dot-net) see the notification. Now you can see your screenshot as image.

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![How to take screenshots on an Android phone and Tablet](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/ec0916ea-4b41-430f-ac8a-6e94b2e75675/images/1b2f1cd9-6bdc-4f23-9cfd-31adc2c8a36a.png)

Some android phones or tablet have this features in Power off menu. If you long press in power off button then a popup window will be open

![How to take screenshots on an Android phone and Tablet](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/ec0916ea-4b41-430f-ac8a-6e94b2e75675/images/dddc456f-0555-4c64-8b55-ecdc217fa362.png)

You can [choose](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/87863/why-you-should-not-choose-wordpress-for-making-a-website) from here Take screenshot options.

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