Level 1 (18 points)

Saving Screenshots to Photos

It makes absolutely no sense to me that there is no way to automatically save my screenshots to the Photos application. There are several times when I take a screenshot on my Mac and I want to be able to quickly edit it and then send it to someone. I prefer to do the editing either on my iPad or my iPhone with my finger then with my Mac. From the answers I've seen it looks like you have to create automations and all this crap just to be able to do that.

That's insane! I just recently moved a year ago from Windows to Mac and I was so impressed by how easy it is for everything to sync. So I'm hoping that somewhere along the Catalina line Apple will implement a way to easily save screenshots to the Photos application. Enough people are asking for this!

Posted on Jan 2, 2020 5:32 AM

3 replies

léonie

Level 10 (205,585 points)

Jan 2, 2020 7:25 AM in response to MissPNixon

If you take the screenshot with the key combination ⇧⌘5 and enable "Floating Thumbnail" in the "Options", you will find "Add to Photos" in the Share menu, when you click the floating thumbnail. That is currently the quickest way to save your screenshots to Photos.

tygb

Level 9 (65,282 points)

Jan 2, 2020 8:02 AM in response to MissPNixon

For iPhone / iPad to take a screen shot and edit it see these articles https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT210781

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT206885

For Mac https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361

You can right click on screen shot that is on the desktop and share with add to photos .

Read this also https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/grab/welcome/mac

MissPNixon Author

Level 1 (18 points)

Jan 3, 2020 7:59 AM in response to tygb

Thanks everyone. I know all those extra steps I can take. That's not what I'm talking about. I should be able to simply set in preferences to have my screenshots saved to Photos; the same way I can have my Downloads saved automatically to my desktop instead of Downloads.

I don't want workarounds, I just want it to work.

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/251001421