Some apps such as the apple tv app might not let you take screenshots of their windows.
Screenshot macos sierra.
To open the app press and hold these three keys together.
You can use the screenshots in emails or word documents or even edit your screenshots and upload.
In macos mojave or later you can also set a timer and choose where screenshots are saved with the screenshot app.
Apple makes it super convenient to take a full screenshot a specific area or a single window in every version of macos or previous mac os x.
Saving screenshot on macos sierra of entire screen to file.
Previous versions of mac os sierra will display your print screen or screenshot as picture so if it s your fourth screenshot on your computer then it will be labeled as picture 4 once you have taken a mac print screen and you need to make the mac print screen selection for the fourth image.
Your screenshot s will be saved to a png file or multiple files one for each monitor and placed on the desktop the file name format is screenshot 2019 02 15 at 10 43 02 pm in the below example two files were created since i was using two monitors.
I have explained how to take a screenshot on windows and this article will explain to you how to take a screenshot on macos sierra high sierra mojave as well as the latest os catalina.