How to Take a Screenshot on Your Mac

It's very good and easy to use, but there's a significant delay of about 2-3 seconds whenever I press Record to start a new screen recording. I didn't realise this until after I made a couple of sample test videos, and realised that the first few seconds of the recording where I immediately start speaking was not captured. So now after pressing Record - I purposely wait and count 3 seconds (in my head) before proceeding, and it works perfectly.

 

How do you terminate it?

 

There's a circular STOP button that appears in the menu bar (on the top-right of screen).

 

Thanks. I did not see it, nor did I see any way to get help to find it. Lots of times Apple figures things are so obvious that we don't need any way of figuring things out. Lots of times Apple is wrong about this.

 

I know exactly what you're saying. It's always been a fundamental principle of Apple to make features seamless and easy to use, which is a good thing in my opinion, but ironically that simplicity can sometimes lead to confusion.

 

Is there a way to disable the onscreen interface and use only the touchbar one?

 

Obviously save as PDF is not an answer. So no, as of now sadly you still need third party apps such as paparazzi! to accomplish this.

 

Cool, we get to memorize more nondescript icons' meanings

 

WHY THE HECK it doesn’t ignore the floating thumbnail when taking another screenshot as on iOS

Bad UX

 

What do you mean? There's no option in Safari in the share sheet. You can, however, use File > Export as PDF

 

I have a few Macs, and I pointed them all to save their screenshots to an iCloud Drive folder cleverly named "Screenshots", so they're available from everywhere.

Using OnyX, I also have them all named starting with the name of which Mac I took them from, so a screenshot taken just a bit ago on this Mac is automatically named MacBook Pro 2018-10-10 at 4.36.17 PM.png

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It's a bit of a kludge, but if you click the menu, hit ⌘+⇧+4 and then hit space, it'll capture the menu -- then you could do it again with the sub-menu to get that separately. If there was a quick way to combine them you'd end up with a very clean image, no background.

 

I'm not on Mojave, having just upgraded to High Sierra last week, but this new screen capture function seems to be more cumbersome than it was before. I use screencaps a lot, especially for creating tutorials. The 4 I use most frequently are capturing the entire screen or an area, to a file or to the clipboard. The keyboard shortcuts are the fastest way I've found to do that:

Cmd-Shift-3 to capture the full screen to a file
Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-3 to capture the full screen to the clipboard
Cmd-Shift-4 to capture an area to a file
Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-4 to capture an area to the clipboard​

The new functionality in Mojave adds unnecessary steps, requiring not just a keyboard shortcut but now also requiring selection of options with the mouse/trackpad before the screenshot is taken. As long as the existing keyboard shortcuts still work, I'd be bypassing the new interface.

 

I can't get the cropping tool to work. After taking the capture, then clicking on the thumbnail, there's a cropping tool, but I can't seem to adjust it at all, there's no handles or anything. Can anyone else figure this out?

 

This is only interesting if you can record system audio right out of the box

If not, same **** of earlier systems but new interface for those who doesnt like shorcuts...

 

You are talking MacOS, I talk iOS

 

Since this thread is "How to Take a Screenshot on Your Mac", iOS doesn't apply here. There is no option on macOS to do what you suggested.

 

Good luck sharing a mojave mac screen recording video via iMessage. The iOS recipient can only preview a tiny thumbnail. Enlarging the video doesn't work b/c Quicktime isn't supported on iOS.

Old man shouts at sky: "WTF!? How does preview work on iOS but not full screen???"

 

OnyX is great for stuff like this, BTW. Lots of control over different system parameters like this. I used it to append to the beginning of my screenshots the name of the Mac I took them on, so I get something like "MacBook Pro 2018-11-02 at 11.57.00 AM.png"

 

Oh thank goodness I can still use the individual hotkeys. Section of screen to clipboard makes Anki flash cards so much easier to build.