Where are screenshots saved on Android?
Last reviewed: September 19, 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."
For a screen recording, the same page points one album over — "At the bottom, tap Collections and then On this device and then Movies." Which is a small clue about how Android thinks: these are not documents, they are media, and they are filed with your photos rather than with your downloads.
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". Anything you remove that way goes to Trash first.
A screenshot folder is also a good illustration of why a sorter should never be pointed at everything by default: it is one of the few folders on a phone that is already organised, by the system, for a reason.
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.
Sources: Android help: take a screenshot or record your screen and Files by Google: delete your screenshots, both read on 16 September 2026. What the app does comes from its own code audit.