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And besides that, it's very easy to bypass those restrictions anyway. The most common would be to screen _record_ prior to opening, that usually isn't detected — or alternatively, for us rooted users just use a screenshot app which ignores those soft-blocks.

In short, this limitation is rather pointless.

>The most common would be to screen _record_ prior to opening, that usually isn't detected — or alternatively, for us rooted users just use a screenshot app which ignores those soft-blocks.

According to other comments in this thread, this just freezes when switching apps, and fails. I'm not too surprised, given that the feature (at least on Android) is meant as a security measure (i.e. most of the banking and 2FA apps use it to some extent).

Thats why I always carry around two phones. To, once every three years, take a photo of something I cant screenshot.

adb on android completely bypasses that.

But my personal favorite is that this is entirely, 100% client-side, and there's already a few handy ways to patch out the checks from the foss client.

Makes for really crap video copying though.