Unable to find new screen shots in macOS Tahoe 26.0

Screenshots are saved in whatever location you set it to save. Tahoe has not changed this to my knowledge.

If it got changed, press the Command+shift+5 keys on your keyboard to bring up the Screen Shot app tool bar, then click on Options and select the Desktop as your screen shot destination from the Menu under "Save To".

Shift Command 5 >>Options make some changes and compare your results

ref: Take screenshots or screen recordings on Mac - Apple Support

Still have an issue, dig a little deeper...

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TUrn off the "Show floating thumbnail" in the Screenshot app tool bar and the screenshots should work again!

What happens when you set it to Desktop?

It should produce a preview thumbnail which you can click on, then click on "Done" and it should save to Desktop.

Or if you leave the thumbnail untouched, after a couple of seconds it should save it to the desktop.

Is that not happening?

Stating just: "Doesn't work". is not very helpful.

Do you have iCloud Drive Desktop & documents turned on?

Remove the checkbox next to “Show floating thumbnail” in the options section of the screenshot app.

Do you have the option set to put the screenshot on the Clipboard in Command-Shift-5 > Options?

Adam Lippiatt wrote:

Deselecting floating window gets the screenshot function to work where it will finally save to the desktop. Seems to be another of the long list of bugs in MacOS 26 - never have I had so many!

It works fine for me. As it has always worked, the file does not get saved until the screenshot tile disappears.

cjbrink wrote:

I've already tried that avenue. It does not work for me.

I posted a screen shot of the most simplified options to side step issues.

I can only suspect you have tried the multiple changes in an effort to compare your results.

If that does not offer any insight or resolve—

I can say third-party sync software like: OneDrive, GoogleDrive, BackBlaze or DropBox all have in app settings that can over ride and usurp screenshots to those locations...Look there.

Deselecting floating window gets the screenshot function to work where it will finally save to the desktop. Seems to be another of the long list of bugs in MacOS 26 - never have I had so many!

I updated to Tahoe last week. I just took a screen shot with Command+Shift+5. I can't find the screen shot on the Desktop. Under Options that is what is chosen to Save To location. I don't see a thumbnail of the screen shot even though that is selected. I used to save screen shots as pdfs. I don't know if that is still happening.

I can't even get a screen shot to save to the clipboard. This is the most buggy MacOS update I've had in like a decade.

Thank you, it now saves the screen shots.