Personal automation screenshot not working

I've set up a Personal Automation event in the Shortcuts app that triggers a screenshot at a specific time. When I observed my iPhone I saw that when that time arrives, the screen flashed like if a screenshot was taken, but there was no sound (this may be by design) and what's more puzzling, there was no screenshot to be found anywhere in Photos. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?


I'm using iPhone SE 2020 and iPad Air 5 and it's the same on both, in iOS 15.7.1 and 16.1.1.


Can somebody try to replicate this?

Posted on Nov 18, 2022 10:08 PM

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Posted on Nov 19, 2022 4:35 AM

I got it working now. It turns out you have to add an additional action after "Take Screenshot" which is "Save to Photo Album" so that the screenshot is actually saved.

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