Hide Private Info in iPhone Screenshots with Shareshot

I don’t know about you, but I’m always sending screenshots of things on my phone to my friends and family, perhaps of links I’ve found or things that I think people might like. But quite often there’s sensitive information in there. Perhaps it might have my bank account number, or it might have my email address, or just things that I don’t want to share, especially if I’m posting publicly on LinkedIn or YouTube.

Well, I’ve found a great new app called Shareshot, which will let you redact any sensitive information straight on the phone, before it even reaches the cloud. Let me show you how it works. It’s such a cool little app.

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Okay, so I’m going to take a screenshot on my phone of this order confirmation. And whilst there’s nothing particularly secret on this page, I want you to imagine it’s a bank account screen, or an email address, or someone’s phone number. You’ve taken a screenshot of something confidential.

Now, all I’m going to do before I save that screenshot is press the Share button at the top, and we’re going to share it to the app called Shareshot. Now, if you’ve not got the app yet, it’s on the App Store and it’s actually a free download. You can use the paid version, but everything that I’m going to show you is in the free version.

So, when you tap on Shareshot, it’s going to bring that screenshot into the app, and then you can tap here to start editing. Now, we’ve got three different options on the editing screen here: Style, Image and Privacy.

The Style tab will let you choose a background colour for your screenshot, or you can have it transparent if you want. And you can even change things like the lighting on the iPhone itself. It’s really quite cool.

If we go across to the Image tab, well, this is where you can choose your iPhone frame. It’s actually recognised what iPhone I’ve got, and it’s immediately put the iPhone 17 Pro Max in Cosmic Orange around the picture. But we can change that if we want to. We can change the colour of the device, or even the device itself, if it’s guessed the wrong one.

But what I’m really here to talk about, and what excites me, is the Privacy tab at the end here. Because when you tap on there, Shareshot is going to detect information in that picture that you might want to blank out. Now, sometimes it detects everything in one go, but actually quite often it misses a few things.

That’s okay, because at the bottom, we can tap on this button, and it will show us all of the text that’s been extracted from that screenshot. Tapping on any of these text bubbles will then block that out in the screenshot itself, automatically. And we can choose different ways of doing this. We can have it blurred, we can have it pixelated, or we can just put some black boxes on the top, whichever one you like the look of.

And now I can share that screenshot just like I normally would. I can save it as an image, I can send it straight to a contact, or I can post it straight on social media. But I know that all of that content that was private is now safe and secure.

And this is not like using a highlighter in the Markup tools, where you can see through it. This is baked into the image, and no one can take it off after you’ve shared it.

So, that’s Shareshot, and that’s how you can make your screenshots more private. But before you go and do that, if you haven’t already, please do press subscribe, and then check out this QuickTip next.