How to Rename a Screenshot in Mac?

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MacBook devices are great tools for professionals performing daily tasks like writing, managing personal data (photos, videos), and browsing the internet. It can handle all these tasks easily using your Macbook.

Sometimes you encounter important data on the web or anywhere else while working, and you need to take a screenshot of it. Here comes the handy feature of taking screenshots. Macbook allows you to easily take screenshots with shortcuts and easy editing tools.

Taking Screenshots in Mac

When you need to take a photo to snap important information, you can do it using the MacBook's screenshot shortcut. You can take a screenshot of the whole screen or a specific part.

1. Taking a screenshot of the whole screen

The command to take a screenshot of the whole screen is − Command + Shift + 3.

2. Taking a screenshot of a specific part of the screen

The command to take screenshot of a specific part of the screen is − Command + Shift + 4.

These screenshots will be automatically saved to your MacBook's desktop folder. While saving the screenshot’s preview will be prompted at the bottom-right of the screen, here you can click on it to view, edit, share, and perform many other tasks.

On your Macbook, the screenshots are by default stored by the name "screenshot yyyy-mm-dd at h.mm.ss AM/PM" format.

This format does not always suit the way we interpret our screenshots. And sometimes, we need to write a specific name for the screenshot based on what purpose it solves. This required renaming the screenshot from the default name provided to it by the MacBook.

Rename a Screenshot on Mac

Renaming a screenshot is a similar process to that of renaming any other file on a MacBook. For renaming a screenshot on a Macbook, just follow these steps −

Go to desktop → click on the screenshot you want to rename → Hit enter to rename or click with a double finger and click on rename → enter the name you wish to update it to > click enter.

This will update the name of the screenshot to the one you desire it to be named. This process is quite useful, as many times we don't need the system's default name for our photos.

If you don't want your screenshots to be named as screenshots followed by details by default, you need to change the default name for the screenshot using the terminal app of the MacBook.

Renaming Screenshot Using Terminal App of MacBook

Instead of naming the screenshot prefixed as screenshot, you can replace it with any name of your choice. This is a bit of a complex process and will change the default save name, i.e., all the screenshots will have the same name prefix. For example, myScreenShot yyyy-mm-dd at h.mm.ss AM/PM.

The below are the steps to rename screenshot by changing the default name for screenshots in Macbook −

You can change the default name for the screenshot on Mac using the terminal. Here is step by step process to perform the task,

• Open terminal
• Write the command

defaults write com.apple.screencapture name "yourScreenShot".

• Hit enter. That's it, your screenshot's default name is changed after using this command.

Once you have done this process, your screenshots will be saved by the prefix yourScreenShot. This new name can be reversed by using the same command to replace the name you changed it to by Screenshot.

• Open terminal
• Write the command

defaults write com.apple.screencapture name ScreenShot.

• Hit enter. Thats it, your screenshots default name is changed after using this command.

This is all about renaming screenshots on MacBook devices. You can do both temporary and permanent remaining screenshots on Mac.