Saving frames of a YouTube video is about to get easier than ever
Saving a video frame hasn’t always been the easiest task whether you are on a desktop or mobile. While you could always use the usual screen-capturing tools on either platform, it wasn’t always possible to get a clean output without menus and player controls being visible, unless you cropped a significant portion out of the picture. Fortunately, this has now been somewhat remedied on the desktop, and an Android solution appears to be on the way as well.
Saving a YouTube video frame is only available on desktops as of now
Grabbing a clean screenshot of a particular frame on a YouTube video, for example, used to be a challenge without resorting to third-party extensions that could take care of this task for you.
Google fixed this on the desktop via an update to the YouTube media player. It now requires only a double right-click to save a frame from the video. After the double right-click you will see the option “Save video frame as…” marked as “NEW”. This option would output a clean .jpg or PNG of the entire frame.
@Leopeva64 on X has spotted this feature in the Canary builds of the Chrome browser since early last year. He regularly scours the Chromium Gerrit repository for new commits of upcoming features. This went live for Chrome desktop, but there was still no way to do this on Android, other than waiting for the player controls to fade and then screenshot using the usual button combinations on your respective mobile device.
You will soon be able to use the feature on Android devices
However, recent code updates indicate that Google will soon allow you to save video frames directly from YouTube on Android devices. This was also spotted by the user via yet another commit on the Chromium Gerrit repo called “Mark copy/save video frame features as disabled on Android,” with a description that clearly states “These features are not implemented on Android yet”.
This indicates that plans are in motion to bring this handy tool to Android, although there is no clear indication of how Google will implement it.
Saving a video frame hasn’t always been the easiest task whether you are on a desktop or mobile. While you could always use the usual screen-capturing tools on either platform, it wasn’t always possible to get a clean output without menus and player controls being visible, unless you cropped a significant portion out of the picture. Fortunately, this has now been somewhat remedied on the desktop, and an Android solution appears to be on the way as well.
Saving a YouTube video frame is only available on desktops as of now
Grabbing a clean screenshot of a particular frame on a YouTube video, for example, used to be a challenge without resorting to third-party extensions that could take care of this task for you.
Google fixed this on the desktop via an update to the YouTube media player. It now requires only a double right-click to save a frame from the video. After the double right-click you will see the option “Save video frame as…” marked as “NEW”. This option would output a clean .jpg or PNG of the entire frame.
@Leopeva64 on X has spotted this feature in the Canary builds of the Chrome browser since early last year. He regularly scours the Chromium Gerrit repository for new commits of upcoming features. This went live for Chrome desktop, but there was still no way to do this on Android, other than waiting for the player controls to fade and then screenshot using the usual button combinations on your respective mobile device.
You will soon be able to use the feature on Android devices
However, recent code updates indicate that Google will soon allow you to save video frames directly from YouTube on Android devices. This was also spotted by the user via yet another commit on the Chromium Gerrit repo called “Mark copy/save video frame features as disabled on Android,” with a description that clearly states “These features are not implemented on Android yet”.
This indicates that plans are in motion to bring this handy tool to Android, although there is no clear indication of how Google will implement it.
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