Lastly, you can save this search for quick access from the Finder’s side menu by hitting Save in the window’s top-right corner. You can also press Command (⌘) -1, Command (⌘)-2, Command (⌘)-3 or Command (⌘)-4 to quickly switch between the Icons, List, Columns and Cover Flow views. To browse your screenshots visually, switch to the Icons view in the toolbar. By default, macOS saves screenshots as PNGs. To narrow down your search to specific file types, click the Image menu and choose between JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG or BMP. To delete them all from your Mac at once, regardless of where they happen to be stored, just choose Select All from the Finder’s Edit menu and drag the files to the Trash. The Finder Search window gets instantly populated with any matching screenshots saved on your Mac’s startup drive, including any screenshots in your iCloud Drive cached on this Mac. With macOS 10.8 and higher, all screenshot images are saved with the “kMDItemIsScreenCapture” flag so you can search for them easily.
How to find screenshots on Mac with Finderġ) Click the desktop, then choose Find from the Finder menu. This makes it very easy, if not trivial, to find all screenshots with Finder, Spotlight or Terminal. MacOS’s Spotlight tags screenshots with a specific key that gets stored in file metadata. In this tutorial, we’ll use a few little-known tricks to help you quickly locate all of the screenshots you’ve taken on your Mac, no matter how deep they might be buried. While that helps with organization, it makes finding all the screenshots saved on your Mac harder than it needs to be.
If you’re like me, you probably move some screenshots (like those of specifics apps) to your project folders.
You can also set them to be saved to any custom folder, such as Downloads. By default, any screenshots you take on your Mac end up on the desktop.