In this guide, we will show you the steps to change the default screenshot format on Mac. I usually take quite a lot of screenshots and attach them to my guides [after all, a picture speaks more than a thousand words, doesn’t it?]. However, macOS’s default screenshot format is JPG, which, even though is smaller than PNG, still weighs more than WEBP. So I then have to load it into a photo-editing tool and change its format to WEBP.
The right-click option of Convert Image doesn’t have WEBP, and even if it did, it would require a few additional steps to get this job done. So what else can be done? Well, there exists a nifty workaround using which you can change the default screenshot format on your Mac. And in this guide, we will show you how to do just that. So without further ado, let’s get started.
How to Change the Screenshot Format in Mac
- Go to Launchpad > Others > Terminal.
- Then type in the below command in it:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type <format>
- Just change <format> to the desired one. For example:
JPEG: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg PNG: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png TIFF: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type tiff PDF: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf GIF: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type gif
That’s it. These were the steps to change the screenshot format on Mac. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution as soon as possible.
