How to Use macOS' Screenshot App

While working on your laptop, you often need to take a screenshot of what is appeared on screen or you need to capture video of what you are doing on your screen. The advanced technology of macOS offers you to take screenshot and record screen with its built in feature of its Screenshot App.

In this article we will discuss about how to use macOS' Screenshot App to capture screenshots and record screen easily by following the given guide.

How to Use macOS' Screenshot App

You can use macOS Mojave (10.14) and later to take screenshots and record screen on mcOS. Here we have discussed about both of the methods in detail.

Steps to Take Screenshot with macOS Screenshot App

Follow the given steps:

1. To open the screenshot interface, press Command + Shift + 5.
2. A small menu will appear at the bottom of your screen with different options as: Capture Entire Screen (means to take a screenshot of everything visible on your screen), Capture Selected Window ( means to capture single window) and Capture Selected Portion (means to take a screenshot of some selected area of your screen).
3. To the right of the capture buttons there will be a Options menu. This menu has many options as to Save to, Timer, Microphone, Show Floating Thumbnail, Remember Last Section and Show Mouse Pointer/ Show Mouse Clicks.
4. You can select options according to your needs from this menu.
5. Your screen recordings will be saved to the same section where your screenshots will be saved.

Steps to Record Screen with macOS Screenshot App

You can also record what you are doing on your screen to create instructional videos or for other uses. Here is how to do it:

1. To open the Screenshot interface, press Command + Shift + 5.
2. In the second panel, the icon controls screen recordings. And it will show you the options same as taking a still screenshot of your screen as to Record Entire Screen, or to Record a Selected Portion of the Screen.
3. Select the option, how you want to record your screen, full screen or a selected portion.
4. Highlight the area of your screen that you want to record and then at the far right of the Screenshot bar Click the Record button.
5. You can press Esc if you want to cancel.
6. Now, do what you want to do on your Mac for recording. You can still take screenshot while recording screen.
7. When you have done, click the Stop button in the menu bar to stop recording.
8. You can find your screen recordings saved in the same folder where your screenshots are saved in your Mac.

FAQs:

Q: How to record screen if we can not access to Screenshot App on Mac?

Ans: Select File > New Screen Recording, or you can press Control + Command + N on your keyboard to record screen on your Mac.

Q: Can we use record screen videos to post?

Ans: Yes, you can use record screen videos where ever you want to use and you can create best videos by recording your screen for your work.

So, this was an easy and simple guide for the ones who work on Mac and want to know about how to use macOS' Screenshot App to capture screenshots and record screen on Mac.

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