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How Bluesky Draws Its Logo on Screenshots

The trick is a humble UITextField

Screenshot a post in Bluesky or Threads on iOS and the Follow button quietly becomes the app’s logo, so the image carries a wordmark wherever it travels. Tim Marinin noticed, and because Bluesky publishes its source, went and found the mechanism: a UITextField, which iOS will tell you when it is being captured. A screenshot detector hiding inside a text box.

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