Screenshot in Huawei MatePad Air

How to take a screenshot or screen capture on a MatePad Air

One essential feature of modern tablets is the ability to take screenshots, capturing an image of what is currently displayed on your Huawei MatePad Air's screen.

Although there are apps for this function, you don’t need to install any additional ones, as it’s already built into the HarmonyOS 3.1 operating system.

Taking a screenshot allows you to save a WhatsApp conversation, a Tinder message, an Instagram story, a Facebook photo, or a video frame directly to your Huawei device's memory.

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First method:

If you want to make a screenshot to your Huawei MatePad Air you have to follow these simple steps:

Estimated time: 2 minutes.

1- First step:

First, go to the screen that you want to capture a screenshot of on your Huawei MatePad Air, whether it's a web page, chat, or application.

2- Second step:

Open the Wear OS app on your phone. Click on the icon in the top right that has three points as an image and that opens a menu with different options. Click on Make a screenshot of wearable. An application send message appears to the smartwatch Huawei MatePad Air and the result of the screenshot on your terminal will be stored, with another floating warning appearing at the bottom of the screen.

3- Third step:

The captured image is automatically saved in the gallery of your tablet Huawei DBY2-L09CK.

You can find the image gallery on the home screen. It typically has a photo or instant photo icon. Depending on the software version installed, your image gallery application might be Google Photos. If that's the case, look for an icon resembling a four-pointed star made of paper, with each point in a different color.

4- Fourth step:

Open the image gallery, the images and photos will appear sorted by date, click on the capture that you just made on your MatePad Air, and you will be able to edit it, trim it or send it to your contacts or through your preferred social network.

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Screenshot without using the buttons on MatePad Air

If you cannot use the physical buttons of the Huawei MatePad Air because they are broken or you do not want to use them because it is a problem for you to press both buttons at the same time to take the screenshot, there is an alternative so you can continue taking screenshots without the power and volume buttons that we tell you about below:

1- First step:

Go to the screen or application you want to capture the screen on your Huawei.

2- Second step:

Display the quick access or settings bar of your Huawei MatePad Air. To do this, slide your finger down from the top of the screen, the shortcuts to device settings will be displayed.

3- Third step:

Press the screenshot icon, if you don't see the icon, swipe down again to display the full panel.
If you can't see this icon, you may need to add it to the shortcuts panel.

4- Fourth step:

The captured image is automatically saved in the gallery of your Huawei phone or tablet.

You can find the image gallery on the home screen. It typically has a photo or instant photo icon. Depending on the software version installed, your image gallery application might be Google Photos. If that's the case, look for an icon resembling a four-pointed star made of paper, with each point in a different color.

How to capture a full page in Huawei MatePad Air?

If you want to capture a complete web page in your Huawei MatePad Air first of all you should know that this method is not available natively on Android for the moment however Huawei has incorporated it into its EMUI customization layer.

To make a scroll screenshot of a web page, a WhatsApp conversation, or any other application on your Huawei MatePad Air, follow these steps:

1- Take a screenshot using the method indicated above. When taking the screenshot, the capture and screen capture menu will appear for a few seconds before disappearing.

2- Click on “Scrollshot” and wait while the screen scrolls, capturing all the content.

3- When you want to stop the screenshot, click on the screen. If the web page or application has a very long or infinite scroll, it can generate a very large image and block the system.

Once the screenshot is complete, it will be saved in the MatePad Air's image gallery, where you can edit and share it on social networks.

About the device:

Huawei MatePad Air is a tablet with dimensions of 261.9 x 178.2 x 6.4 mm (10.31 x 7.02 x 0.25 in), a weight of 508 grams, a screen size of 11.5 inches, 391.6 cm2 (~83.9% screen-to-body ratio) and a screen resolution of 2800 x 1840 pixels, 3:2 ratio (~291 ppi density).

It has a processor Octa-core (1x2.84 GHz Cortex-X1 & 3x2.42 GHz Cortex-A78 & 4x1.80 GHz Cortex-A55), a graphics card Adreno 660, a RAM memory 8 GB and an internal memory of 128 GB, 256 GB.

The Huawei MatePad Air comes from the factory with the HarmonyOS 3.1 operating system.

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