Where are screenshots saved on Android?
Last reviewed: September 23, 2026 · Markdown version
Open the Photos app, tap Collections, then On this device, then Screenshots. On an older Android without that app, open your phone's Gallery app and tap Album view, then the Screenshots folder. Screen recordings are kept next door: On this device, then Movies.
The route, from Android's own help
Android's help page on taking a screenshot gives both paths. The current one: "Open the Photos app. At the bottom, tap Collections and then On this device and then Screenshots." And the fallback, with a diagnosis attached: "If you don't have the Photos app, you're likely running an older Android version. Open your phone's Gallery app and tap Album view and then Screenshots folder." (Take a screenshot or record your screen, read 23 September 2026)
For a screen recording, the same page points one album over — "At the bottom, tap Collections and then On this device and then Movies." Underneath, Android's developer documentation files screenshots as images: "Images, including photographs and screenshots, which are stored in the DCIM/ and Pictures/ directories" (Access media files from shared storage, read 23 September 2026). Which folder inside those your phone uses is not something either page specifies — the album route above is the reliable way in.
Why they pile up quietly
Because they never feel like files. A screenshot is taken in a second to remember something for an hour, and then it stays. Files by Google has a card for precisely this — its "Old screenshots" card offers Select files, and Google describes it as a way to free up space "through the deletion of screenshots created or received more than 4 weeks ago" (Delete your screenshots, read 23 September 2026). Anything you remove that way goes to Trash first.
A screenshot album is also a good illustration of why a sorter should never be pointed at everything by default: it is one of the few collections on a phone that is already grouped for you.
Where Adinand Auto File Sorter fits
Screenshots is one of the watched-folder presets on the Pro side, alongside WhatsApp Documents, Telegram and Bluetooth, and a preset is only offered when that folder actually exists on your phone. Add it and screenshots are treated like anything else the app sorts: moved into Downloads › Sorted Files, into Images. That is a real trade — they leave the folder your gallery app expects them in — which is why it is off unless you ask for it.
The folder your camera writes to is deliberately never offered as a preset at all. And nothing is sorted out of a sub-folder: only the files sitting directly in a watched folder are touched.