# Drag a screenshot from the notch into a chat or email > Press on a screenshot in the NotchStar tray, move a few points and drop it into a chat or an email. The app receives a copy of the file. Canonical: https://www.notchstar.com/help/drag-a-screenshot-into-a-chat-or-email/ Last updated: 2026-11-04 Published 2026-11-04. To send a screenshot from the NotchStar tray, press on its thumbnail and drag it into the message box of a chat app, or into an email you are writing, then let go. The app receives the image file. The screenshot then leaves the tray, because you used it. ## Steps 1. Take a screenshot. Its thumbnail appears under the notch. 2. Open the chat or the email draft in another window. 3. Press on the thumbnail and move the mouse. After about four points of movement the press becomes a drag. A smaller wobble counts as a click, which opens the screenshot instead. 4. Drop it on the message field or the email body. Dragging a thumbnail does not open the notch, and hovering over it does not either. ## What the app gets Chat and mail apps receive a copy of the file. The original stays in your screenshot folder, so you can send it again later. Whether the picture appears inline or as an attachment depends on the receiving app, not on NotchStar. ## If the drop does not work - Let go over a place that accepts files. If nothing accepts it, the thumbnail flies back to the tray and stays there. - A few web apps only accept a drop on one box, such as a file area. Try dropping on that box. ## More than one You can send several at the same time. Read [send several screenshots at once](https://www.notchstar.com/help/send-several-screenshots-at-once/). You can also copy a screenshot and paste it, from its right click menu. The overview is on the [Screenshot Tray page](https://www.notchstar.com/features/screenshot-tray/). ## Quick answers. ### Does dragging a screenshot out delete it? No. The app gets a copy, and the original stays in the folder where macOS saved it. ### Why did my click open the screenshot? A click without enough movement opens the file in its default app. Press and keep moving to drag. ## Keep reading. - [Screenshot Tray: your screenshots wait under the notch](https://www.notchstar.com/features/screenshot-tray/): Every screenshot lands in a tray under your Mac notch. Drag it into a chat, an email or a folder, or send several at once. - [Send several screenshots at once from the notch](https://www.notchstar.com/help/send-several-screenshots-at-once/): Take a few screenshots, pick the ones you want and drag them into a chat together. NotchStar carries all picked files in one drag. - [Drag a screenshot from the notch into a folder](https://www.notchstar.com/help/drag-a-screenshot-from-the-notch-into-a-folder/): Drop a NotchStar tray screenshot on a Finder folder to put the file there. Finder decides whether it moves or copies, and the tray entry goes away. - [Share Mac screenshots from the notch without losing the file](https://www.notchstar.com/guides/share-screenshots-from-mac-notch/): Capture a screenshot, find its saved file and send it from the Mac notch. Understand tray expiry, multiple selections and what happens to the original. ## More in Screenshot Tray. - [How screenshots reach the NotchStar Screenshot Tray](https://www.notchstar.com/help/how-screenshots-reach-the-notch-tray/): NotchStar watches the folder where macOS saves screenshots and hangs each new one under the notch. Here is what counts, what does not, and how fast. - [How long screenshots stay in the NotchStar tray](https://www.notchstar.com/help/how-long-screenshots-stay-in-the-notch-tray/): The NotchStar Screenshot Tray holds the latest 12 screenshots and keeps each unused one for five minutes. Using a screenshot removes it sooner. - [Drag a screenshot from the notch into a folder](https://www.notchstar.com/help/drag-a-screenshot-from-the-notch-into-a-folder/): Drop a NotchStar tray screenshot on a Finder folder to put the file there. Finder decides whether it moves or copies, and the tray entry goes away. - [Send several screenshots at once from the notch](https://www.notchstar.com/help/send-several-screenshots-at-once/): Take a few screenshots, pick the ones you want and drag them into a chat together. NotchStar carries all picked files in one drag. - [Pick several screenshots in the notch with Command click](https://www.notchstar.com/help/pick-several-screenshots-with-command-click/): Hold Command and click screenshots in the NotchStar tray to pick them. A drag from any picked one then carries all of them. - [Option drag sends every screenshot in the notch tray](https://www.notchstar.com/help/option-drag-sends-every-screenshot-in-the-tray/): Hold Option while you start dragging a screenshot from the NotchStar tray and every screenshot in the tray goes, whether picked or not.