How to Change Where Screenshots Are Saved on Your Mac

When you take a screenshot on your Mac – using the Shift-Command-3 shortcut to capture the whole screen, or Shift-Command-4 to capture a portion of it – the image files are saved straight to your desktop. This can result in this: If you’d like to change that default save location to somewhere different, simply follow the steps below. If you’re running macOS Mojave or later, you can press