Unable to take screenshot on Samsung Galaxy S7

Question

If I swipe with the edge of a palm, it is very unreliable -- sometimes screen is pressed and I do some operations instead of screen shot.

Pressing Home + Power simultaneously doesn't work.

What else can be done?

UPDATE

I am trying to take screenshow of an application, which I am debugging. When I run debug, it requests to close device monitor, so the third way of taking screenshots via device monitor also doesn't work.

UPDATE 2

Disabling swipe didn't help. Now it is impossible to take screenshot from within device at all.

Answer 1

Please check your toggle notification, maybe you have an option to trigger screenshoot, or you can use a third party app for that, that enables you maybe a notification icon that when you press, one screenshoot is taken.

Answer 2

Actually, I had the same problem and for me this worked:

Pressing Volume down+Power+Home

But unfortunately, it looks as if Android does not make screenshots when the phone is locked. This is no problem on the iPhone.

Samsung S7, Android 8.0.0

Answer 3

If taking a screenshot with hardware keys don't so seem to work for you, you can use gestures to take a screenshot instead:  

1. Activate gestures: go to Settings > Motions.
2. Inside the Motion menu, look for Hand Motions.
3. Check the Palm Swipe to capture.

Once you have activated the gesture, you can now grab a screenshot:

• Go to the screen that you want to take a screenshot of.

• Now swipe the edge of your hand from right to left and vice versa, horizontally.

This edge-to-edge swipe gesture may take you a few tries to master, but it makes taking screenshots so much easier and quicker.