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Change File Type of Screenshots on Mac

If you’re like us, you take screenshots all the time – whenever you see something important, funny or interesting that you need to save for your records, or even share with your friends. 

Unfortunately, on macOS Mojave your screenshots are defaulted to save as PNGs, but you can change that.

If you want to save your Screenshots as JPGs, head into Terminal and type ‘defaults write com.apple.screencapture type JPG’ then hit enter. Once that’s done, the change will go into effect once you restart your Mac.

If you can’t wait that long, you can force the change to go through by typing “KillAll SystemUIServer” and hit enter and the UI will restart.

If you want to go back, you can type “defaults write com.apple.screencapture type PNG” and then follow the same steps to go back to the default.
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