The app now supports the automatic saving of screenshots

Sep 30, 2022 11:51 GMT  ·  By

I don’t know about you, but I take a lot of screenshots, and thanks to the super-advanced software that I use, I can automatically add watermarks and save the captures to a configured destination.

In other words, the only thing I need to remember is to press the right hotkey to take a screenshot of the entire screen or just of a specific region.

Snipping Tool, which is the default screenshot app bundled with Windows, is essentially a pretty advanced app, though it’s pretty clear that it lags behind all the other third-party alternatives. This is because Microsoft has never seemed very committed to updating Snipping Tool in a way that would make it a fully featured screenshot app, so this is why so many people, myself included, decided to stick with third-party software.

The most recent Windows 11 preview build comes with one big update for Snipping Tool. The app is getting support for auto-saving screenshots, which means that all your captures are now automatically saved in the Screenshots folder.

The new feature is enabled by default on all Windows devices.

“We are rolling out an update for Snipping Tool (version 11.2209.2.0) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. With this update, Snipping Tool supports automatically saving your screenshots so you can recall them later. Look for your screenshot history in the Screenshots folder inside Pictures. This feature is on by default, but you can also change this behavior in app settings,” Microsoft says.

For the time being, more advanced settings seem to be missing, so for instance, you can’t change the default auto-saving location. Hopefully, the Windows team pays more attention to what other screenshot apps currently offer and update Snipping Tol with more advanced capabilities to therefore convince more users to stick with it.