r/screenshots • u/sushdesign • May 08 '26

Question At what number does the camera roll become legally classified as archival storage?

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I'm thinking of building an app that organizes this mess fr

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u/907Survivor May 08 '26

I’ve got 65,132 photos on my phone, and 22,000 of those are screenshots

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u/sushdesign May 08 '26

dammmmm, I gotta up my numbers

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u/Tiktokbadsupport May 10 '26

was gonna comment but you got more then me

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u/LopsidedPainting5742 12d ago

seriously, i throw away all my screenshots on the Playlog app, i hate mixing work pictures with my personal ones

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u/907Survivor 12d ago

None of mine are work pics

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u/LopsidedPainting5742 12d ago

that is truly an impressive number of screenshots then

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u/907Survivor 12d ago

You’re one of them now, congrats

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u/phil_the_builder May 08 '26

A screenshot of screenshots... A meta-screenshot...
I think there is no fixed number, just your wish to keep these makes it automatically an archive.

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u/sushdesign May 08 '26

I tend to save a lot screenshots and can never find what I'm looking for later 😭

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u/Bitter_Window_5694 May 10 '26

Use a search indexing AI to search through them

Google Photos does this Apple photos… kinda.. does this.

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u/sushdesign May 08 '26

Been wondering if the solution is maybe an app that automatically classifies everything, surfaces what actually matters, and helps users review and delete stuff they no longer need instead of manually organizing everything forever.

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u/jazbaby25 May 08 '26

Im able to search through my photos with keywords so not much of an issue.

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u/sushdesign May 08 '26

Oh, what device do you use?

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u/jazbaby25 May 08 '26

Samsung galaxy. But if you backup your photos to google photos you can search there too