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Microsoft has been hard at work on updates to Windows 11, from more tweaks to the Start menu to changes to default apps. Now, the company is experimenting with changes to the Print Screen key in Windows 11.
There are plenty of ways to take a screenshot in Windows 11 (and Windows 10), but if your keyboard has a dedicated Print Screen key, pressing it will instantly take a screenshot and save it to the clipboard. That’s been the default behavior for many years, since Windows 95, but Microsoft is now trying something different in test builds of Windows 11.
Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23419 is now being tested in the Windows Insider Program Dev Channel, which now opens the snipping tool when you press the Print Screen key, instead of instantly taking a screenshot and saving it to the clipboard. Microsoft says that the option can be reverted from Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard, and if you’ve changed that setting before, nothing will change.
The many other methods of taking a screenshot in Windows 11 aren’t changing, at least for now. There’s also a chance that Microsoft could revert this behavior before it’s rolled out to everyone. The new behavior may be simpler for new Windows users to understand, since there’s no visual indication after pressing Print Screen that something happened, but it can be annoying for long-time users.
Microsoft did not mention whether Win + Fn + Spacebar will still work to take a screenshot right away. If not, changing the settings back should also work.
Source: Windows Blog
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