Some Honor phone owners are seeing a low-storage warning when they try to save a screenshot, even though they still have plenty of free space. The screenshot is saved anyway, which makes this look less like a storage problem and more like a broken system check in Honor’s software. Reports say the issue affects a wide range of devices, including the new Honor 600.
The warning appears during the standard screenshot gesture, while other capture tools keep working normally. Long screenshots, knuckle gestures, and screen recording are unaffected, which is a strong clue that the bug sits in one specific path rather than the whole screenshot feature.
What the Honor screenshot bug does
The error message says there is not enough storage to save the screenshot. In practice, that warning is false: the image is written to the device anyway. One user said they had already cleared the gallery cache and manually deleted more than 3,500 old screenshots, with no change, so the usual ”free up space and try again” advice is useless here.
Because the issue spans everything from the Honor 90 to the Honor 600, the most plausible explanation is a server-side or cloud-side glitch rather than something tied to one handset. That would also explain why local cleanup, reboots, and other routine fixes do nothing. It is the kind of bug that turns a basic feature into a small daily insult.
Which screenshot methods still work
- Standard screenshot gesture: shows the fake low-storage warning, but still saves the image.
- Long screenshot with scrolling: works normally.
- Honor knuckle gestures: works normally.
- Screen recording: works normally.
Honor screenshot bug looks like a software issue
For Honor, the embarrassing bit is not that screenshots fail; they do not. It is that the phone is essentially crying wolf while the job still gets done. Competitors have had their own share of cloud-tied bugs and overzealous system prompts, but this one stands out because it hits a feature people use dozens of times a day and makes the phone look confused in public.
The open question is how quickly Honor patches the issue and whether the fix lands on the device or from the server side. If the bug is indeed cloud-related, users may wake up one day and find their phones suddenly acting normal, which would be a welcome change from the usual ritual of rebooting, clearing caches, and muttering at the screen.