diff --git a/bitchat/App/AppRuntime.swift b/bitchat/App/AppRuntime.swift
index d743bb8f..3d5bc5bc 100644
--- a/bitchat/App/AppRuntime.swift
+++ b/bitchat/App/AppRuntime.swift
@@ -424,26 +424,24 @@ private extension AppRuntime {
     }
 
     func handleScreenshotCaptured() {
-        if appChromeModel.isLocationChannelsSheetPresented {
+        let isLocationChannelActive: Bool = {
+            if case .location = chatViewModel.activeChannel { return true }
+            return false
+        }()
+
+        switch Self.resolveScreenshotResponse(
+            isLocationChannelsSheetPresented: appChromeModel.isLocationChannelsSheetPresented,
+            isAppInfoPresented: appChromeModel.isAppInfoPresented,
+            hasPrivateChatOpen: chatViewModel.selectedPrivateChatPeer != nil,
+            isLocationChannelActive: isLocationChannelActive
+        ) {
+        case .warnLocally:
             appChromeModel.triggerScreenshotPrivacyWarning()
-            return
+        case .ignore:
+            break
+        case .forwardToChat:
+            chatViewModel.handleScreenshotCaptured()
         }
-
-        if appChromeModel.isAppInfoPresented {
-            return
-        }
-
-        // Screenshots are never announced to public channels (see
-        // ChatLifecycleCoordinator.handleScreenshotCaptured). A geohash
-        // timeline screenshot still reveals a place, so warn the person
-        // taking it — locally, the same alert the channel sheet uses.
-        if chatViewModel.selectedPrivateChatPeer == nil,
-           case .location = chatViewModel.activeChannel {
-            appChromeModel.triggerScreenshotPrivacyWarning()
-            return
-        }
-
-        chatViewModel.handleScreenshotCaptured()
     }
 
     func openExternalURL(_ url: URL) {
@@ -460,3 +458,40 @@ private extension AppRuntime {
         }
     }
 }
+
+// MARK: - Screenshot routing
+
+extension AppRuntime {
+    /// What a screenshot triggers. Nothing on this table sends anything to
+    /// a public channel (see `ChatLifecycleCoordinator.handleScreenshotCaptured`).
+    enum ScreenshotCaptureResponse: Equatable {
+        /// Show the local location-privacy alert; nothing is sent anywhere.
+        case warnLocally
+        /// Do nothing. App Info holds no conversation or location content.
+        case ignore
+        /// Hand to the chat layer: a DM notice goes to the peer when a
+        /// secure session exists; public timelines stay silent. Mesh
+        /// deliberately gets no local alert either — a mesh screenshot
+        /// reveals no place and triggers no send, so there is nothing to
+        /// warn about, and alerting on every screenshot would train people
+        /// to dismiss the one alert that matters (the location one).
+        case forwardToChat
+    }
+
+    /// Pure decision table so the screenshot routing is testable without a
+    /// runtime.
+    nonisolated static func resolveScreenshotResponse(
+        isLocationChannelsSheetPresented: Bool,
+        isAppInfoPresented: Bool,
+        hasPrivateChatOpen: Bool,
+        isLocationChannelActive: Bool
+    ) -> ScreenshotCaptureResponse {
+        if isLocationChannelsSheetPresented { return .warnLocally }
+        if isAppInfoPresented { return .ignore }
+        // A geohash timeline screenshot still reveals a place — warn the
+        // person taking it, locally, with the same alert the channel sheet
+        // uses.
+        if !hasPrivateChatOpen, isLocationChannelActive { return .warnLocally }
+        return .forwardToChat
+    }
+}
diff --git a/bitchatTests/ChatLifecycleCoordinatorContextTests.swift b/bitchatTests/ChatLifecycleCoordinatorContextTests.swift
index 02e5ff18..d969cd15 100644
--- a/bitchatTests/ChatLifecycleCoordinatorContextTests.swift
+++ b/bitchatTests/ChatLifecycleCoordinatorContextTests.swift
@@ -350,3 +350,59 @@ struct ChatLifecycleCoordinatorContextTests {
     }
 
 }
+
+// MARK: - Screenshot Routing
+
+/// Pins `AppRuntime`'s screenshot decision table: the geohash warn path,
+/// the App Info exemption, and the deliberate mesh silence. Combined with
+/// `handleScreenshotCaptured_publicChannel_staysSilent` above, this proves
+/// location + screenshot → local privacy alert, and nothing sent anywhere.
+struct ScreenshotCaptureRoutingTests {
+
+    @Test("Location channels warn locally; the sheet warns everywhere")
+    func locationScreenshotsWarnLocally() {
+        // Geohash timeline, no DM open: warn the person, tell no one.
+        #expect(AppRuntime.resolveScreenshotResponse(
+            isLocationChannelsSheetPresented: false,
+            isAppInfoPresented: false,
+            hasPrivateChatOpen: false,
+            isLocationChannelActive: true
+        ) == .warnLocally)
+
+        // The channel sheet reveals location regardless of active channel.
+        #expect(AppRuntime.resolveScreenshotResponse(
+            isLocationChannelsSheetPresented: true,
+            isAppInfoPresented: false,
+            hasPrivateChatOpen: true,
+            isLocationChannelActive: false
+        ) == .warnLocally)
+    }
+
+    @Test("App Info is exempt; mesh and DMs forward to the chat layer")
+    func nonLocationScreenshotsForwardOrIgnore() {
+        #expect(AppRuntime.resolveScreenshotResponse(
+            isLocationChannelsSheetPresented: false,
+            isAppInfoPresented: true,
+            hasPrivateChatOpen: false,
+            isLocationChannelActive: true
+        ) == .ignore)
+
+        // Mesh timeline: forwarded, where the coordinator stays silent for
+        // public channels — no local alert either (nothing is sent and no
+        // place is revealed; see ScreenshotCaptureResponse docs).
+        #expect(AppRuntime.resolveScreenshotResponse(
+            isLocationChannelsSheetPresented: false,
+            isAppInfoPresented: false,
+            hasPrivateChatOpen: false,
+            isLocationChannelActive: false
+        ) == .forwardToChat)
+
+        // An open DM keeps its peer notice even from a location channel.
+        #expect(AppRuntime.resolveScreenshotResponse(
+            isLocationChannelsSheetPresented: false,
+            isAppInfoPresented: false,
+            hasPrivateChatOpen: true,
+            isLocationChannelActive: true
+        ) == .forwardToChat)
+    }
+}