How to take a screenshot on your Mac
- To take a screenshot, press and hold these three keys together: Shift, Command, and 3.
- If you see a thumbnail in the corner of your screen, click it to edit the screenshot. Or wait for the screenshot to save to your desktop.
From macOS Mojave onwards, there’s a built-in shortcut on a Mac that lets you start recording your screen. Press Shift + Cmd + 5 and you’ll get an on-screen menu giving you various recording. Note: It’s not suggested to use Mac ApowerREC on 10.13.6 and 10.14.6 as the two versions are not stable, and you may encounter certain recording issues on these two versions. 【ApowerREC Not Recording Issue】 The recording time froze at “00:00:00” after beginning the recording: Solution 1. Note: Applies for Mojave, Catalina and Big Sur. AnyDesk may only receive sessions when Accessibility and Screen Recording permission is granted by the macOS system. Add AnyDesk to trusted apps in order to work correctly.
How to capture a portion of the screen
- Press and hold these three keys together: Shift, Command, and 4.
- Drag the crosshair to select the area of the screen to capture. To move the selection, press and hold Space bar while dragging. To cancel taking the screenshot, press the Esc (Escape) key.
- To take the screenshot, release your mouse or trackpad button.
- If you see a thumbnail in the corner of your screen, click it to edit the screenshot. Or wait for the screenshot to save to your desktop.
How to capture a window or menu
Note: Applies for Mojave, Catalina and Big Sur. AnyDesk may only receive sessions when Accessibility and Screen Recording permission is granted by the macOS system. Add AnyDesk to trusted apps in order to work correctly. There are two options to choose from to record your Mac’s screen; you can either record the entire screen or record a particular portion. Step1: As we did earlier Press Command + Shift + 5 on your keyboard to bring up the screenshot toolbar. Step2: Click either Record Entire Screen or Record Selected Portion. Your screen will start to record.
- Open the window or menu that you want to capture.
- Press and hold these keys together: Shift, Command, 4, and Space bar. The pointer changes to a camera icon . To cancel taking the screenshot, press the Esc (Escape) key.
- 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.
- If you see a thumbnail in the corner of your screen, click it to edit the screenshot. Or wait for the screenshot to save to your desktop.
Where to find screenshots
By default, screenshots save to your desktop with the name ”Screen Shot [date] at [time].png.”
In macOS Mojave or later, you can change the default location of saved screenshots from the Options menu in the Screenshot app. You can also drag the thumbnail to a folder or document.
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.
- Some apps, such as the Apple TV app, might not let you take screenshots of their windows.
- To copy a screenshot to the Clipboard, press and hold the Control key while you take the screenshot. You can then paste the screenshot somewhere else. Or use Universal Clipboard to paste it on another Apple device.
Apple has introduced a new interface for screen shots and screen recordings in macOS Mojave. Let’s have a look at how to record your screen.
The new feature brings together a number of features in a new interface and has less reliance on being able to remember multiple shortcuts.
To bring up the new interface press Shift-Command (⌘)-5.
Record the entire screen
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- Click the Record Entire Screen icon in the onscreen controls.
- Your pointer changes to a camera.
- Click any part of the screen to start the recording
- To stop recording, click in the menu bar or press Command (⌘)-Control-Esc.
Record a selected part of the screen
- Click the Record Selected Portion icon in the onscreen controls.
- Drag to select an area of the screen to record.
- To move the entire selection, drag from within the selection.
- To start recording, click Record in the onscreen controls.
- To stop recording, click in the menu bar or press Command (⌘)-Control-Esc.
Trim & share your screen recording
After you stop the recording a thumbnail of it briefly appears in the bottom right of your screen.
- If you do nothing or swipe the thumbnail to the right the recording is saved.
- You can click the thumbnail to open and edit the recording.
- You can then click the Trim icon to trim the start or end of the recording.
- Click the Share icon to share it.
- Drag the thumbnail to move the screenshot to a document, an email, a Finder window or the Trash.
Record your screen with sound
- Click Options in the onscreen controls.
- Under Microphone select the microphone you would like to use to record your voice or other audio along with your recording.
Add a delay before the recoding begins
- Click Options in the onscreen controls.
- Under Timer select to begin the recording immediately, 5 seconds, or 10 seconds after you click Record.
Show your mouse pointer in the recording
- Click Options in the onscreen controls.
- Show Mouse Pointer: Choose whether to show your pointer in the recording.
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