How to send several screenshots at once on a Mac
Take your screenshots one after another, then in the NotchStar Screenshot Tray Command click the ones you want and drag any of them to the destination. All the picked screenshots go together. Hold Option while you drag to send every screenshot in the tray instead.
Steps
- Take each screenshot with your normal macOS shortcut. Each one appears in the strip under the notch as soon as it is saved.
- Command click a thumbnail to pick it. A tick appears on it and its border changes. Shift click works as well. Click it again to unpick.
- Pick the rest the same way. Or right click and choose Pick all to pick everything in the tray.
- Drag one of the picked thumbnails into a chat, an email, a folder or the Shelf. The tooltip on a picked thumbnail says how many will go.
- Or skip picking: hold Option and drag any thumbnail to send all of them.
- Or right click and choose Copy all, which puts every file on the clipboard so you can paste them into a message.
Screenshots that were sent leave the tray. If you drop them on nothing, they fly back and stay.
What happens to the files
Dropping onto an app gives that app copies. Dropping onto a Finder folder moves the files into that folder, which is the normal macOS behaviour for a drag between locations from outside an app. Dropping onto the Trash deletes them. The tray itself never deletes anything when a screenshot just expires.
Limits
- 12 at a time, five minutes each. More than 12 pushes the oldest off the tray, not into the Trash.
- The destination decides. Some chat boxes take one file per drop. The tray cannot change that.
- Similar images are easy to mix up. Look at the thumbnails before you send.
- No captions or annotation. Describe each image in your message.
Check the group first
Count the picked thumbnails and look at each for private content. If the destination is an email, send yourself a test with two harmless images first. The wider walkthrough in share screenshots from the Mac notch shows the tray beside the plain Finder way. For one image into a chat, see sending a screenshot in a support chat. For a long term record, save the images in a project folder, since the tray is not an archive.
