Screenshot not working on my iMac after latest macOS Sonoma update

chombeaux wrote:

WOW!

thank you, it works. My only complain is that now I have to click the image in the corner to save the screenshot everytime I use it. Before the update, it was automatically saved on its own... I'm wondering why do they change that.

You don't have to do that if you don't want to.

Press command-shift-5, then from the Options menu, UNCHECK "Show Floating Thumbnail"

Click on the image in the lower right corner.

Or better yet Command-Shift-5, and set the options to save the screenshot where you like.

Command-Shift-5 can screenshot the while screen, whole windows, rectangle regions, or start screen recording of the whole screen or a selection rectangle.

Personally I set the Command-Shift-5 options to “Save to Preview”, then use Preview-> Tools-> Annotate, where I add text, arrows, boxes and circles to focus the reader on what I want them to look at, then Command-A to “Select All”, Command-C to copy my Annotated screenshot to the clipboard, and finally paste the Annotated screenshot into the document I am writing.

And if I want to save the screenshot for other purposes, I can Command-S in Preview to save it to a file, with my Annotations.

I’ve been working on a long macOS related document for work, and I must have 50 Annotated screenshots I created with the “Save to Preview” option.

Yeah, the new behaviour is a pain. The screenshot should save to wherever you've set screenshots to save - even if you do nothing with the annoying little image. When the little image appears in the bottom RH corner you can right-click on it to do other stuff or normal click to have it do something else annoying.

I am on Sequoia, and regardless of having the floating thumbnail or not, regardless of clicking it or not, the screenshots are saved to the stipulated location.

I no longer have a Sonoma machine to test this, and I always had screenshots open in Preview directly, anyway, so I can't say if this was a problem in Sonoma. It is certainly not a problem in the current OS.

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

I am on Sequoia, and regardless of having the floating thumbnail or not, regardless of clicking it or not, the screenshots are saved to the stipulated location.

I no longer have a Sonoma machine to test this, and I always had screenshots open in Preview directly, anyway, so I can't say if this was a problem in Sonoma. It is certainly not a problem in the current OS.

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

You don't have to do that if you don't want to.

Press command-shift-5, then from the Options menu, UNCHECK "Show Floating Thumbnail"

+1 Exactly. It's the same in Sonoma and Ventura as well.