PSA: Cropping a screenshot on my phone took me 45 minutes of pure frustration

I tried to crop this funny meme I made about my cat's judgmental stare, but my phone's default editor kept snapping the selection back to the edges every time I got close. I spent a solid 20 minutes fighting with it before I gave up and downloaded some random free app. Then that app added a weird white border I couldn't remove, so another 15 minutes went into hunting down settings. Finally I just took a new screenshot and used a third app that let me pinch-to-crop exactly. 45 minutes for something that should take 10 seconds. Has anyone else ended up with a graveyard of half-fixed screenshots from bad editing apps?

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the_wendy8d ago

Wow, I used to think people were just bad at phones but that crop snapping thing is a legitimate nightmare.

susan3508d ago

The built-in photo editor on most phones seems designed to drive you crazy with that snapping issue. What finally worked for me was using the screenshot editing tool in Google Photos instead of the one that pops up right after you take a screenshot. You can pinch and zoom exactly where you want without it fighting you. I also learned you can turn off that automatic snapping feature in some phones if you dig through the display settings. Once I switched to Google Photos for all my cropping, I stopped having those 45 minute battles completely.