Where are screenshots saved on Big Sur?

Look in your utilities folder for an app called screenshot. Launch the app and then at the bottom there are options that you can change. One of them is the location where screenshots are saved You can change this back to the desktop or some other location.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Fahmid_v4 wrote:

Cheers for suggestion, think its done the job, for some reason it was saving them to clipboard only

Shift Command 5 >>Options make changes here:

Take screenshots or screen recordings on Mac - Apple Support

I use Big Sur Version 11.1 (20C69)

I would like to add something to this discussion. I too have the problem that I can't save screenshots. Here is my trouble shooting process:

1. Open the screenshot app and check if they are saved in the right location aka. the desktop -> they are.
2. Take a screenshot with either Cmd+Shift+3 or Cmd+Shift+4 -> There is a camera sound. The preview appears in the bottom right corner of the screen.
3. When I look at the desktop, I can't see the screenshots (see screenshot below).
4. When I browse to the desktop via Finder and Terminal I can't see them either.
5. However: When I use any other application and click on "Open new file" and browse to the desktop via the open new file dialog I can see and manipulate them (see screenshot below).
   1. I can drag them into another folder and then use them from there. Dragging them only copies them to this folder, though.
   2. I cannot delete them on the desktop. When I try I get an error message saying . I fear at some point I will just have an endless list of screenshots on my desktop (see screenshot below).
   3. Sometimes the "Open new file" dialog does not update the desktop and so I can't see new screenshots.

I took the screenshots for this post via a screen sharing tool.

In my opinion this is a breaking bug and should be escalated to Bug Sur development.

⌘+⌥+SpaceBar (⎵) to open finder,

Click on the magnifying glass at the top right corner to search and type in "Screen Shot", then it will show all the screenshots on your Mac as that keyword is the default prefix for all the screenshots.

Also you can change that location while taking a screenshot.

For more info: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201361

Did you try resetting the location to the Desktop after the Big Sur update? If so boot into Safe Mode according to Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support and see if the problem persists and reset if necessary. Reboot normally and check again.

NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing the following; 

• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed

• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)

• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically

• Disables user-installed fonts 

• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files

To change the screenshot format from png to jpeg enter the following command in Terminal followed by the Return key/

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg && killall SystemUIServer

Then enter this command again followed by the Return key:

killall SystemUIServer

That should change the type of image to jpg.

In Utilities Screenshots are ticked as Desktop, but since Big Sur 11.2.1 this is not happening.

Apple have a nasty habit of interfering with things that are fine and work properly and never tell customers what they have done to mess it up. Mail in Carolina was one of the few things that was well designed and has been messed up in Big Sur with the toolbar moved right over to the right to make life harder and grey on grey layout, which is hard to see.

If you went to your local garage and you got your car back and you could not find things that used to work you would not be happy.

Now in Big Sur we have to open search boxes instead of them being there say, in Mail. This means more clicking all the time, wasting more time to do anything, which just makes the addiction to screens that Apple have created even more of a chore.

This is not creative it's simply poor design.

In Utilities Screenshots are ticked as Desktop, but since Big Sur 11.2.1 this is not happening.

Mine were still set to Desktop and they still went there.

with the toolbar moved right over to the right

I hadn't even noticed that. I just wondered why it felt more natural. Since the buttons are over the content (the viewing pane), they are easier to use.

Now in Big Sur we have to open search boxes instead of them being there say, in Mail. This means more clicking all the time, wasting more time to do anything,

When I click on the spyglass, the search field opens and the cursor is in the field, ready to enter text. No more clicking than was necessary before.

Thank you. This is helpful!

Is there any way to turn off that extra noise that comes after the shutter sound? I want to keep the shutter sound, but want to eliminate the "bleep" afterwards.

Thank you again!

when I start the screenshots, my pc has an external display. well, the options panel isn't displayed on the same display which the screenshot window appears. I found here and there several times...finally find that the options panel was displayed on another display. It's very inconvenient.

display1:

display 2:

Apple specialise in ruining existing popular features at every new OSX for some reason. It’s like Mail, which had the toolbar starting from the far left and now starts a third of the way over, which makes using the App much harder work.

I had same problem on my Mac with screenshots, but since last update this has corrected itself and screenshots are going onto desktop again.

Ring 0800 107 6285 free online support if you are in UK or Google same for your country to resolve screenshot issue.

My options have always been set to Desktop for Screenshots but it does not work. I have cj=hecked this via Utilities Screenshots, Options.

After the first update on Big Sur they appeared again when I took them, but now gone again. Why oh why do Apple keep ruining functioning APPs and make more work for us all?

The reply that I received had a link to change from PNG to JPEG, but link just went to picture above with geezer with hands on his hips which I guess is Old Toads avatar?

I have now altered Dropbox, however, my screenshots always loaded onto the desktop before in all Mac OSX's and I have always had dropbox so, something is wrong at Apple.

Thanks, but I already sorted it by unticking in Dropbox as, I put above, but this has never happened before to me in any OSX and I have had dropbox for years so, my question is why do Apple allow Screenshots to be highjacked by Dropbox?

Apple doesn't allow anything like that. Dropbox figured out how to do it and went ahead.

A number of users have reported problems with Dropbox and started to using the alternative Box which offered more free space (up to 10 GB) for individuals and the free plan and was much less intrusive to their system and apps.

why do Apple allow Screenshots to be highjacked by Dropbox?

You as the user allowed the change of location when you installed Dropbox. The only way Apple could prevent that would be to prevent you from changing the location.