Take a lot of screenshots? Newer versions of OS X now show a thumbnail in the lower-right corner of the screen. While this can be useful for making quick edits, users who take screenshots on a frequent basis find it annoyingS
Overview
How to Disable the Screenshot Thumbnails on a Mac

Follow these steps to disable screenshot preview thumbnails on new versions of Mac OS X:
- Press Command+Shift+5 on your keyboard. The screenshot utility will appear.
- Click “Options”
- Uncheck the option for screenshot thumbnails, “Show Floating Thumbnails”
Alternatively, you can also search for “screenshots.app” on your Mac to bring up the screenshots tool. The screenshot previews will now no longer appear when you turn off ‘Show Floating Thumbnail’ in the Finder. The screenshots that have been snapped are created and shown to us almost instantly just like before!
How to Re-enable Screenshot Thumbnails
Changed your mind? Follow the same steps to re-enable screenshot thumbnails:
Follow these steps to disable screenshot preview thumbnails on new versions of Mac OS X:
- Press Command+Shift+5 on your computer keyboard. Once again, the screenshot utility will appear.
- Click “Options”
- Check the option for screenshot thumbnails
You can enable and disable screenshot options as often as you lke.
Why do screenshot thumbnails appear in the first place?
You might be wondering: why show the thumbnail at all? It seems like Apple decided to trigger macOS’s built-in screenshot editing feature with this particular Mac OS X 10.14 Mojave update, which has been present since then and allows you crop your captured images before they get saved on disk for easier viewing. Plus there’s also an option to discard anything that doesn’t look great in order not have any more problems later!
Bonus: How to change the folder where screenshots are stored
When storing screenshots on your computer, many of us would like to keep them in their own folder instead of moving the files around. This just keeps things neat and tidy on our desktop! Over in the Screenshot utility options you can choose ‘Other Location..’ for where those pictures will go once saved. This is great if you want to keep things organized. I take a lot of screenshots and find my desktop gets cluttered in no time, so I keep everything in a folder called “Screenshots.”