After taking a screenshot and closing the app, the highlighted area remains. Even if I re-open the screenshot app and change the area size the original ghost image remains. There does not seem to be a way to force quit the Screenshot app. I'm on Ventura 13.0.1.
iMac (24-inch, M1, 2021, 2 ports)
1 - Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.
2 - Safe Mode will also eliminate Third Party Software, extensions and drivers from loading
3 - Does the issue present in this mode ?
4 - Sometimes a Safe Boot followed by a Normal Boot will just put things right.
5 - Current version of Ventura is 13.1 and brings some Bug and Security Fixes
links below on this topic
Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support (CA)
About the security content of macOS Ventura 13.1 - Apple Support (CA)
FWIW, it sounds like you are starting a screen recording instead of a screen shot.
See: Take screenshots or screen recordings on Mac - Apple Support
To stop a screen recording you have to click the stop button in the menu bar.
Wait. I’ll have to test this but are thinking I accidentally started a screen recording and then took screenshots while the recording was going on? I’m not sure if that’s possible or how I wouldn’t have noticed it but maybe. Weird the that I couldn’t force quit if that was the case though. The screenshot app didn’t appear in the force quit list.
Yes a Reboot will often times fix some issues.
Safe Boot and Test if the same issue presents may indicate if there is some Third Party Application installed and used on the computer is the root cause of this issue
Good point previous Contributor has made and worth consideration
It was a screenshot. I took additional ones at other sizes but the ghost image remained until rebooting
Yes I did have to reboot to get the screen to refresh. The issue is why did it happen. I took other screenshots screenshots of the it a different sizes and it didn’t go away without a reboot.
Ghost image of Screenshot app area remains after being closed
