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What your screenshots reveal about you

You screenshot a funny message or a receipt to send to a friend. Here’s everything else that might be in it.

The obvious details

  • Names and faces of people who never agreed to be shared: contact names, profile photos, group members.
  • Phone numbers and emails in chats, receipts and account pages.
  • Addresses on orders, delivery tracking and maps.
  • Card and account numbers, even partial ones, which help fraudsters verify a story.

The ones people forget

  • Boarding passes and tickets. The barcode or QR code usually encodes your name and booking reference, which can be enough to view or change a booking.
  • Confirmation and order codes. Many support lines treat them as proof of identity.
  • Notification banners that slid in at the top just as you took the screenshot.
  • The top of the screen: the browser address bar, open tab titles and the account you’re signed into.
  • Keyboard suggestions that hint at what you type often.
  • @usernames and handles that link an anonymous account to you.

And what’s hidden in the file

iPhone screenshots carry the date and time and your device model. Photos usually add the exact GPS location too. Check any image with our photo location checker.

How to share safely

  1. Crop to just what matters.
  2. Cover everything else that’s personal with solid bars, not blur (here’s why).
  3. Share a new copy rather than the original file.

Or let Scrubshot do it: it finds names, numbers, addresses, cards, QR codes and faces automatically, on your iPhone, and saves a clean copy.

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