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Safari website screenshot creates PDF on iCloud Drive downloads folder
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Safari website screenshot creates PDF on iCloud Drive downloads folder
Hi.
on my iPad with iPadOS 15
when I’m browsing a website using Safari and do a screenshot with the vol+ and power button.… a screenshot is taken BUT… also a PDF of the full website from top to bottom is generated and saved into the Downloads folder on iCloud Drive.
I don’t find any setting to disable this behavior.… so the PDF isn’t generated and saved
can anyone help me?
thank you!
on my iPad with iPadOS 15
when I’m browsing a website using Safari and do a screenshot with the vol+ and power button.… a screenshot is taken BUT… also a PDF of the full website from top to bottom is generated and saved into the Downloads folder on iCloud Drive.
I don’t find any setting to disable this behavior.… so the PDF isn’t generated and saved
can anyone help me?
thank you!
No one??
If I take a screenshot (https://support.apple.com/en-ie/guide/iphone/iphc872c0115/ios) while browsing a website using Safari on iOS 15.... a PDF is automatically created (and saved on Downloads folder of iCloud Drive) containing a screenshot of the full website.
thanks
If I take a screenshot (https://support.apple.com/en-ie/guide/iphone/iphc872c0115/ios) while browsing a website using Safari on iOS 15.... a PDF is automatically created (and saved on Downloads folder of iCloud Drive) containing a screenshot of the full website.
thanks
svenmany
macrumors demi-god
Jun 19, 2011
1,152
I know there is a way to get the behavior you're seeing, but I don't know why it's happening automatically.
When you take a screenshot and quickly click on the image on the lower left of the screen, you can then work on the "Full Page" and save it to files (with the default location being the last folder used).
Could you have an extension installed in Safari which is causing this?
When you take a screenshot and quickly click on the image on the lower left of the screen, you can then work on the "Full Page" and save it to files (with the default location being the last folder used).
Could you have an extension installed in Safari which is causing this?
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I don’t have any extensions installed and I also don’t have any ’experimental features’ changed from default in Settings.
It’s very strange because it happens randomly on my iPhone and on my iPad so when I try to reproduce the behavior I’m not able to do it, but from time to time when I look into the downloads folder on iCloud Drive, I find a bunch of websites saved there as pdf, and all I can say is that they are websites I’ve ‘screenshoted‘ recently either to save a picture on the camera roll or share a picture of part of it (touching on the bottom left thumbnail, cropping the picture, touching on share, sharing the picture via WhatsApp and then touching the red recycle bin so to no save the picture in the camera roll).
It’s very strange because it happens randomly on my iPhone and on my iPad so when I try to reproduce the behavior I’m not able to do it, but from time to time when I look into the downloads folder on iCloud Drive, I find a bunch of websites saved there as pdf, and all I can say is that they are websites I’ve ‘screenshoted‘ recently either to save a picture on the camera roll or share a picture of part of it (touching on the bottom left thumbnail, cropping the picture, touching on share, sharing the picture via WhatsApp and then touching the red recycle bin so to no save the picture in the camera roll).
Last edited: Aug 9, 2022
svenmany
macrumors demi-god
Jun 19, 2011
1,152
I've read that the full page screenshots are supported in Mail as well as Safari; they both support taking a screenshot of the scrollable page outside of what's visible on the screen. Could you test in Mail and see if the same thing happens?
It's not so great that it's random; makes it hard to test.
It's not so great that it's random; makes it hard to test.
This is a very weird Safari iPad bug.
You can see this bug in action by taking these steps:
1. Launch Safari on your iPad (I’m running iPadOS 15.6.1).
2. Go to a website, and take a screenshot of the website.
3. Tap on the screenshot in the corner to view it.
4. Tap on the “Done” button and choose “Save To Photos”.
Steps #3 and #4 are required to trigger this bug.
BUG: A copy of the screenshot in PDF format will appear in your iCloud Downloads folder.
You can see this bug in action by taking these steps:
1. Launch Safari on your iPad (I’m running iPadOS 15.6.1).
2. Go to a website, and take a screenshot of the website.
3. Tap on the screenshot in the corner to view it.
4. Tap on the “Done” button and choose “Save To Photos”.
Steps #3 and #4 are required to trigger this bug.
BUG: A copy of the screenshot in PDF format will appear in your iCloud Downloads folder.
Unable to reproduce. Checked downloads folder in Web iCloud files immediately after the pictures were uploaded and nothing there.
joshen
macrumors regular
May 27, 2015
I’ve had this on my iPhone for at least two years and thought it was standard behavior. Had gigabytes of PDFs in my iCloud Drive that I had to delete. Can’t find a way to disable it either.
Just tried it and….yep! PDF in downloads folder! Weird bug. IPad Pro 2017…iOS 15.7 (19H12)This is a very weird Safari iPad bug.
You can see this bug in action by taking these steps:
1. Launch Safari on your iPad (I’m running iPadOS 15.6.1).
2. Go to a website, and take a screenshot of the website.
3. Tap on the screenshot in the corner to view it.
4. Tap on the “Done” button and choose “Save To Photos”.
Steps #3 and #4 are required to trigger this bug.
BUG: A copy of the screenshot in PDF format will appear in your iCloud Downloads folder.
bug
macrumors regular
Feb 2, 2004
Vancouver, BC
I just noticed this today. Also does it for Mail on iOS, although we can’t reproduce that reliably. Confirmed for my wife as well.
PDFs go back to 2019 for us.
Seems like a security concern.
PDFs go back to 2019 for us.
Seems like a security concern.
I’ve seen this annoying behavior on my iPhone as well.
Take a screenshot of a webpage. Select the small image to open the editor. Select screen. Select done. Select save to photos. The screenshot appears in photos and the full page pdf appears in files.
It doesn’t happen every time. Not sure what triggers it to happen.
Take a screenshot of a webpage. Select the small image to open the editor. Select screen. Select done. Select save to photos. The screenshot appears in photos and the full page pdf appears in files.
It doesn’t happen every time. Not sure what triggers it to happen.
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