How to I add "send to email" to the share sheet when sharing from a screenshot on macOS?

MereCivilian · June 9, 2021, 6:24am

When I take a screen shot on macOS, I want an option to email that screenshot. I thought, the share sheet will have that option. But it does not. see below:

When I click more, I still do not see Mail.app option.

Any help is greatly appreciated…Ideally, I want an option where it emails using the default mail client.

thanks

Martin · June 9, 2021, 10:41am

I actually have a similar problem with my wife‘s MacBook - in this case it‘s notes that doesn‘t appear. Ideas would be great.

rms · June 9, 2021, 11:30am

Doesn’t it depend on where the screen shot goes? Clipboard? Preview? File accessible via Finder? The latter two ways already have the “share” feature built in. That work?

I use the /Applications/Utilities/Screenshot.app to control where it goes.

JKoopmans · June 9, 2021, 2:45pm

I just checked my macs and mail is definitely a sharesheet option for screenshots.

evanfuchs · June 9, 2021, 2:58pm

Strange. What happens if you run this from Terminal:

screencapture -Mi

Does it give you the screenshot in a new email message?

ldebritto · June 9, 2021, 4:13pm

Just wondering: what is this B icon with the Mail name on it?

Guessing this may have something to do with it.

evanfuchs · June 9, 2021, 4:26pm

I was thinking the same thing. That’s why I wondered what would happen when running the screencapture manually with the -M option (open in a new Mail message).

JKoopmans · June 9, 2021, 6:34pm

Maybe check which program is associated with email?

Open the Mail app.
Choose Mail → Preferences, then click General.
Choose an email app from the ”Default email reader” menu.

It might be there’s another app that has inserted itself?

MereCivilian · June 9, 2021, 9:08pm

Hello

It seems the bumpr app was causing the issue. I have since changed the default mail app to mail and it worked.

thank you @ldebritto @evanfuchs @JKoopmans for pointing me in the right direction.

Bumper is a great app which I use to open certain links in different browsers. For example, I know the Citibank website has never worked well for me on Safari so I always open Citibank on Firefox. All my Webex links from my calendar also open in Firefox.

Bumpr can do the same with email links - open links in different email apps. Obviously this causing issues elsewhere.

r2d2 · August 15, 2021, 3:27pm

@MereCivilian will bumpr open up different profiles in brave/chrome? I use several profiles to maintain bookmarks.

MereCivilian · August 15, 2021, 11:01pm

It opens the last profile that was used. Don’t think you can indicate a specific profile.