diff --git a/src/components/views/context_menus/WidgetContextMenu.tsx b/src/components/views/context_menus/WidgetContextMenu.tsx
index 1aeeccc724..b6a46bd2ac 100644
--- a/src/components/views/context_menus/WidgetContextMenu.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/context_menus/WidgetContextMenu.tsx
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ const WidgetContextMenu: React.FC<IProps> = ({
     }
 
     let snapshotButton;
-    if (widgetMessaging?.hasCapability(MatrixCapabilities.Screenshots)) {
+    const screenshotsEnabled = SettingsStore.getValue("enableWidgetScreenshots");
+    if (screenshotsEnabled && widgetMessaging?.hasCapability(MatrixCapabilities.Screenshots)) {
         const onSnapshotClick = () => {
             widgetMessaging?.takeScreenshot().then(data => {
                 dis.dispatch({
diff --git a/src/components/views/dialogs/DevtoolsDialog.tsx b/src/components/views/dialogs/DevtoolsDialog.tsx
index 14fb69b156..fb2f7113dd 100644
--- a/src/components/views/dialogs/DevtoolsDialog.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/dialogs/DevtoolsDialog.tsx
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ const DevtoolsDialog: React.FC<IProps> = ({ roomId, onFinished }) => {
                 <h3>{ _t("Options") }</h3>
                 <SettingsFlag name="developerMode" level={SettingLevel.ACCOUNT} />
                 <SettingsFlag name="showHiddenEventsInTimeline" level={SettingLevel.DEVICE} />
+                <SettingsFlag name="enableWidgetScreenshots" level={SettingLevel.ACCOUNT} />
             </div>
         </BaseTool>;
     }
diff --git a/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/LabsUserSettingsTab.tsx b/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/LabsUserSettingsTab.tsx
index 9e0b31b2ad..14b27b0515 100644
--- a/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/LabsUserSettingsTab.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/settings/tabs/user/LabsUserSettingsTab.tsx
@@ -92,14 +92,6 @@ export default class LabsUserSettingsTab extends React.Component<{}, IState> {
                 );
             });
 
-            groups.getOrCreate(LabGroup.Widgets, []).push(
-                <SettingsFlag
-                    key="enableWidgetScreenshots"
-                    name="enableWidgetScreenshots"
-                    level={SettingLevel.ACCOUNT}
-                />,
-            );
-
             groups.getOrCreate(LabGroup.Experimental, []).push(
                 <SettingsFlag
                     key="lowBandwidth"
diff --git a/src/utils/WidgetUtils.ts b/src/utils/WidgetUtils.ts
index 048b610cdd..a81a018144 100644
--- a/src/utils/WidgetUtils.ts
+++ b/src/utils/WidgetUtils.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ limitations under the License.
 
 import * as url from "url";
 import { base32 } from "rfc4648";
-import { Capability, IWidget, IWidgetData, MatrixCapabilities } from "matrix-widget-api";
+import { IWidget, IWidgetData } from "matrix-widget-api";
 import { Room } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/room";
 import { MatrixEvent } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/event";
 import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/logger";
@@ -496,21 +496,6 @@ export default class WidgetUtils {
         return app as IApp;
     }
 
-    static getCapWhitelistForAppTypeInRoomId(appType: string, roomId: string): Capability[] {
-        const enableScreenshots = SettingsStore.getValue("enableWidgetScreenshots", roomId);
-
-        const capWhitelist = enableScreenshots ? [MatrixCapabilities.Screenshots] : [];
-
-        // Obviously anyone that can add a widget can claim it's a jitsi widget,
-        // so this doesn't really offer much over the set of domains we load
-        // widgets from at all, but it probably makes sense for sanity.
-        if (WidgetType.JITSI.matches(appType)) {
-            capWhitelist.push(MatrixCapabilities.AlwaysOnScreen);
-        }
-
-        return capWhitelist;
-    }
-
     static getLocalJitsiWrapperUrl(opts: {forLocalRender?: boolean, auth?: string} = {}) {
         // NB. we can't just encodeURIComponent all of these because the $ signs need to be there
         const queryStringParts = [