You can turn off iOS 26’s obtrusive new screenshot previews

Screenshots now dominate your screen in iOS 26 after they’ve been captured. | Image: Apple

One of the many unpublicized changes introduced with the iOS 26 update released earlier this week is that screenshots now automatically open into a full-screen preview. The new approach provides immediate access to a handful of useful tools for editing a screenshot, but they now dominate your iPhone’s screen when captured, instead of shrinking into an unobtrusive thumbnail. Thankfully, reverting to the old way iOS handled screenshots is easy...