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Screen Capture highlight won't disappear

If like me you hit a bunch of keys and made most of your screen go dark apart from a highlighted section, and can't get it to go, then looked for answers here and nothing - I found a work around.


Hit Cmd>Shift>5 (which I think is the randomness that got me into trouble in the first place) > click the word record > then find the square within a circle icon in your top apple menu bar in your screen and click that - that seems to clear it all away.


And saves a restart.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Aug 20, 2023 3:28 PM

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Aug 21, 2023 6:42 AM in response to SarahNZ2016

SarahNZ2016 wrote:

If like me you hit a bunch of keys and made most of your screen go dark apart from a highlighted section, and can't get it to go, then looked for answers here and nothing - I found a work around.

Hit Cmd>Shift>5 (which I think is the randomness that got me into trouble in the first place) > click the word record > then find the square within a circle icon in your top apple menu bar in your screen and click that - that seems to clear it all away.

And saves a restart.



Make changes to suit your needs—

Take screenshots or screen recordings on Mac - Apple Support





once I have my options set —fro screen shots screenshotsI use :

Shift Command 3

Shift Command 4


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Screen Capture highlight won't disappear

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