2026-09-30

Nothing OS Screenshot Gesture

One neat trick on my Nothing Phone 3a is that on the Nothing OS, you can take a screenshot with a three finger swipe down.

I've primarily switched to this as my screenshot taking shortcut because holding the power and volume down is hard to remember, error prone when doing it by muscle memory and nearly impossible to do on the nothing phone 3a physically with one hand.

And the other secret feature on top of a secret feature, is if you do it slowly, you can even select which part of the screen to capture! It's like the gymnastics of the Mac screenshot shortcut with cmd+shift+4, hold and select with mouse to capture a window or add alt to copy to clipboard and shit like that.

Three finger shortcuts aren't completely new though, the iPad has a three finger swipe down for multitasking. But having it on a phone is pretty cool.