# Send several screenshots at once from the notch

> Take a few screenshots, pick the ones you want and drag them into a chat together. NotchStar carries all picked files in one drag.

Canonical: https://www.notchstar.com/help/send-several-screenshots-at-once/
Last updated: 2026-11-04

Published 2026-11-04.

To send several screenshots in one go, take them one after another, then drag from the NotchStar tray. Command click the ones you want first and drag any picked thumbnail, or hold Option as you start the drag to take every screenshot in the tray. The chat, email or folder receives them all at once.

## Three ways

- **Pick, then drag.** Command click each screenshot you want. A blue outline and a check mark show what is picked. Drag any picked one and all picked ones come along. See [pick several with Command click](https://www.notchstar.com/help/pick-several-screenshots-with-command-click/).
- **Option drag.** Hold Option when you start the drag and every screenshot in the tray goes, picked or not. See [Option drag](https://www.notchstar.com/help/option-drag-sends-every-screenshot-in-the-tray/).
- **Copy, then paste.** Right click a screenshot and choose Copy, or Copy all if there is more than one. NotchStar puts the files on the clipboard, so pasting into Finder or a chat that accepts files gets every screenshot.

## What you see while dragging

The thumbnails stack into a small pile under the pointer. Files travel oldest first. If you drag a screenshot that is not picked while others are picked, only that one goes.

## After the drop

Every screenshot that was dropped somewhere leaves the tray. The files stay in your screenshot folder unless you dropped them onto a Finder folder, which can move them, or onto the Trash. If you let go over nothing, they all fly back and stay.

## Limit

Whether an app accepts many files in one drop is up to the app. If a chat takes only one, send them in several drags. The overview is on the [Screenshot Tray page](https://www.notchstar.com/features/screenshot-tray/).

## Quick answers.

### How many screenshots can I send at once?

As many as are in the tray, which holds the latest 12.

## 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.
- [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.
- [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 chat or email](https://www.notchstar.com/help/drag-a-screenshot-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.
- [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.
- [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.