Hi Samsung and other proud owners for Samsung S21 Ultra
I recently noticed that my cloud storage was running out of space rather quickly. When I checked what was going on, I found out that for some reason, my screenshots and screen recording folders were also getting backed up to my cloud. I found it very odd as I have several android devices - OnePlus, Huawei and Xiaomi - where these folders were never inside DCIM folder. I have other Android 12 on other device and couple on Android 11 - I can confirm that its only Samsung S21 (One UI 4) is saving the screen recording and Screenshots into DCIM.
This is a problem.
Not only that - there is no way I can find settings to change the location of Screenshots and Screen recording within the Phone or App settings.
Note - I am a gaming enthusiast and I record contents for 3+ hours a day - the files are anywhere between 5GB to 15GB - I cannot afford these files to be backed up along with my usual Camera PIcs/Vids
I own the 512GB variant of S21 Ultra
Note 2 - I have given a thought to move Camera Storage outside DCIM folder and enable backup for that - unfortunately Camera app doesn't have the option to move the camera storage to a different Folder in the phone.
Request your earnest intervention for a quick resolution
I will ask silly questions. Did you check Settings > Advanced Features -> Screenshots and screen recorder? There should be such settings. Or did you make sure, that you have One UI 5.1? If nothing of this helped, try to communicate with the Samsung team through Samsung members, as described in this thread, and describe as clearly as possible, that you need settings for changing the place of saving screenshots and screen records. I had such an issue on the Samsung S20 FE and One UI 5.1 fixed it
