IMAGE: APPLE MARCH 2020 MACWORLD 101
W
hen you make a screen
capture in macOS in
Mojave or Catalina, a tiny
thumbnail appears in the
bottom right corner of the screen for a few
seconds. Click it, and a small editing suite
appears that lets you modify what you
captured or delete the image or images
before they’re saved. (We have a
complete guide to using this markup tool
[go.macworld.com/mktl].)
If you don’t want that thumbnail,
however, you have to know exactly where
to change the setting. It’s not found in any
System Preferences pane, and Mojave did
away with Grab, the former standalone
screen-capture utility built into macOS.
Instead, you have to invoke a screen-
capture mode to change associated
settings. You can either press Command-
Shift-5 or launch Applications → Utilities →
Screenshot, the not-quite-an-app that
replaced Grab.
Click the Options button and deselect
Show Floating Thumbnail. That’s it! You
can also change the default location for
saving images and set a delay for screen
captures and video captures. ■Hate the screenshot floater in
macOS? Here’s how to get rid of it.
It’s a simple option, but you have to invoke a screen capture to find it.
BY GLENN FLEISHMAN