Press and hold these keys together: Shift, Command, 4, and Space bar. The pointer changes to a camera icon. Click the window or menu to capture it. To exclude the window's shadow from the screenshot, press and hold the Option key while you click.
Learn more In macOS Mojave or later, you can also set a timer and choose where screenshots are saved with the Screenshot app. To open the app, press and hold these three keys together: Shift, Command, and 5. Learn more about the Screenshot app. In macOS 14, Mojave, this was replaced with Screenshot, a more powerful and flexible app. On the Mac, Command-Shift-3 takes a screenshot of the entire screen. Video content protected with HDCP High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection — such as a movie or TV show in the TV app — will be blacked out, but otherwise your image will show everything that was on your screen when you took the screenshot.
But you can do much more than take a screenshot of your entire display. There are several types of screenshots you can take, each with its own keyboard shortcut, whether you use an iMac, MacBook, or a Mac mini with an external display.
If you click Options, a menu gives you a number of options for your screenshot or screen recording. None of the above options can shoot a lengthy web page that spans several screens; they only take screenshots of what you can see. If you do want a screenshot of an entire web page, you can use the Awesome Screenshot extension in Safari for that.
By default, when you take screenshots on a Mac, they are saved on your Desktop. Some people are fine with saving them there; others find that it makes too much clutter. If you use screenshots often, you might want to create a Screenshots folder somewhere and change the location where screenshots are stored. If you want to save your screenshots to a custom folder, click Other Location and choose a folder, or click New Folder to create one. In my example above, I save my screenshots to a folder named Screenshots, in my Documents folder.
All future screenshots will be saved to that location, not just those that you initiate using this screenshot tool. Computing Tips and Techniques are brought to you by the Information Technology Group for the purpose of sharing a wide variety of technology tips with its clients.
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Screenshots are handy. You can use them to show your grandparent how to use a new app. You can use them to capture tweets before they disappear down the deletion black hole. Each of the main operating systems — Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS — incorporates one or more ways to take screenshots. You can take a screenshot of the screen, a window, or a specific selection; you can also take a video of all or part of your screen.
Depending on your specific system, you should be able to take a screenshot by pressing the Windows logo key simultaneously with the PrtScrn or PrtSc key which is usually on the right end of the function key row.
There are two ways to take a screenshot of your Android screen assuming you have Android 9 or 10 :. Vox Media has affiliate partnerships. These do not influence editorial content, though Vox Media may earn commissions for products purchased via affiliate links. For more information, see our ethics policy.
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