Screenshot protection is a dropdown with three modes — No, Basic, and Advanced. It blocks native screenshot shortcuts and screen recording on supported desktop browsers and works together with dynamic watermarks.

Mode	Covers	Plan
No	Protection off.
Basic	Best-effort blocking on supported desktop browsers. In the app it carries the note "May be ineffective on mobile and some desktop devices."	Business+
Advanced (Screenshield)	Supported desktop browsers plus mobile: iPhone, iPad, and Android. Uses a fence view to shrink the capturable area. In the app it carries the note "Uses fence view to reduce the screenshottable area. Adds slight friction, but it's an effective deterrent."	Data Room+

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We have example sample data rooms for you to experience both modes

Open either sample and try to take a screenshot or start a screen recording. Open the Advanced one on your phone too, to see the fence view that shrinks the capturable area.

Try Basic protection →Try Advanced protection →

What It Does

When set to Basic or Advanced on a group, Peony:

Blocks native screenshot shortcuts on supported desktop platforms. Cmd+Shift+3, Cmd+Shift+4, Print Screen, and Win+Shift+S produce a blank or blurred capture.
Blocks screen recording on the same platforms. QuickTime, Loom extensions, and OS-level recording all get a blurred or blank document area.
Blocks the capture and locks the view. When a screenshot shortcut is detected, the document area blurs and the clipboard is cleared, so the capture comes out blank or blurred. Capture attempts are not recorded as a separate Audit trail event.
Works with dynamic watermarks. If a capture does get through, the viewer's identity is burned into every page. A phone photo of the screen still carries the watermark.

Coverage Matrix

Platform	Native Screenshot	Screen Recording	Notes
Chrome on macOS	Blocked	Blocked	Basic or Advanced. Known minor bug with arrow-key navigation blur state, fix in progress.
Chrome on Windows	Blocked	Blocked	Basic or Advanced.
Edge on Windows	Blocked	Blocked	Basic or Advanced.
Firefox on macOS/Windows	Blocked	Blocked	Basic or Advanced.
Safari on macOS	Blocked	Blocked	Basic or Advanced.
iOS Safari (iPhone/iPad)	Reduced (Advanced)	Reduced (Advanced)	Requires Advanced mode (Data Room tier and up). Mobile has inherent limits — see below.
iPadOS	Reduced (Advanced)	Reduced (Advanced)	Requires Advanced mode (Data Room tier and up).
Android Chrome	Reduced (Advanced)	Reduced (Advanced)	Requires Advanced mode (Data Room tier and up).

On supported desktop browsers, Basic or Advanced produce a blurred/blank/no image.

Mobile protection has limits

On mobile, only Advanced applies protection. Screenshot protection is desktop-optimized: Apple and Google don't give web apps a hard block on OS-level screenshots, so Advanced reduces the capturable area rather than guaranteeing a fully blank capture, and a phone camera pointed at the screen can always take a photo. For anything truly sensitive, pair it with dynamic watermarks: the watermark still burns the viewer's identity into that photo. The highest-security stack is NDA + dynamic watermark + Advanced screenshot protection.

Known Issues

Chrome + macOS arrow-key navigation blur bug. The navigation blur state doesn't always clear when arrow-keying between pages. Fix in progress.
Very old browsers. Browsers more than two major versions behind may not run screenshot protection correctly.

If a viewer reports it's not working, confirm: (1) the group's Screenshot protection is set to Basic or Advanced (not No), (2) they're on a supported desktop browser, (3) they're not on mobile with Basic (mobile needs Advanced). Most "it's not working" reports are mobile users or groups where the mode was left on No.

Setting It on a Group

Screenshot protection is a Security control card on the group, not a toggle under Permissions. Permissions is the separate per-folder visibility and downloads grid.

Open your data room, go to the Permissions tab, and open the group you want to protect.
In the group's Security control cards, click the Screenshot protection card.

In the dialog, open the Screenshot protection dropdown and choose No, Basic or Advanced (the modes are compared at the top of this page).

Save the group.
Test from an incognito window on a supported desktop browser. Try to screenshot — you should see a blank/blurred capture. To see what viewers get before setting anything up, open the Basic sample or the Advanced sample.

For a fundraising deck or M&A room, the typical stack is: email verification + watermark + Advanced screenshot protection + downloads off. See Recommended stacks by use case.

Common Questions

Screenshots still work on mobile even with protection on — can I stop mobile capture?

Set the group's Screenshot protection to Advanced (Screenshield), which makes mobile content much harder to capture, turn on dynamic watermarks as the strongest deterrent, and for the highest security layer add an NDA on top. The per-device limits are in the Coverage Matrix.

Screenshot protection is too restrictive for our workflow — can I loosen it?

There's no partial setting between the modes. To loosen it, switch the group's Screenshot protection from Advanced or Basic down to a lighter mode, or to No to turn it off for that group. Because it's set per group, you can keep strict protection on sensitive groups and relax it on others without changing the whole room.

Dynamic Watermarks: Setup and Limits — burned-in identity protection that works on every platform including mobile
NDA Gates: Signed Before Access — legal deterrent layer
Access Control Layers — layering strategy for combining NDA, email, watermark, and screenshot protection