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I don’t think iOS does have a way for apps to disallow screenshots. Do you have a source?


An app can receive a notification when a screenshot has been taken, so it could theoretically edit the last image saved to Photos.

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/93362

However, I'm not really sure that would work, since I don't think that would be able to bypass iOS prompting you to give that app access to your photo library.

There's a third-party "ScreenShieldKit" which claims to be able to do this:

https://screenshieldkit.com

So, apparently it's technically possible to block this, but AFAIK, Apple doesn't provide an equivalent to Android's FLAG_SECURE ("treat the content of the window as secure, preventing it from appearing in screenshots or from being viewed on non-secure displays").

DRM-protected video can't be recorded (or screenshotted) in iOS, but as another comment noted, that seems to be a video-specific thing.




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