Sign stated right this moment that it’s updating its Home windows app to forestall the system from capturing screenshots, thereby defending the content material that’s on show.

The corporate stated that this new “display safety” setting is enabled by default on Home windows 11. Sign stated that this new function is designed to guard customers’ privateness from Microsoft’s Recall function, which was announced last year. Recall captures screenshots of the system constantly to recollect your entire actions, so you may scroll again in time to recollect what you had been .

Whereas the corporate paused the rollout of the feature last year after backlash, Microsoft began testing it once more in April by way of the Windows Preview Channel. Microsoft has made the function opt-in and has additionally added a option to pause it anytime. Sign stated that regardless of these modifications, the function nonetheless captures content material which may be delicate.

Sign stated that if you end up attempting to take a screenshot with the brand new display safety setting enabled, you’ll simply get a clean display.

The corporate additionally warned that when the setting is enabled, some capabilities, reminiscent of display readers, may not work as supposed. You possibly can flip off the setting by way of Sign Settings > Privateness > Display screen safety.

The app will present you a warning if you end up attempting to disable this feature, and you’ll have to click on on Verify to finish the motion. That is to forestall you from by chance turning the function off whereas attempting to regulate different settings.

“We hope that the AI groups constructing programs like Recall will suppose by way of these implications extra rigorously sooner or later. Apps like Sign shouldn’t need to implement a ‘one bizarre trick’ so as to keep the privateness and integrity of their providers with out correct developer instruments,” Sign said in a blog post.