lgarron
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2 years ago I found that ⇧⌘4 has been slow again. During macOS Ventura upgrades I had a bunch of prompts I wanted to screenshot, and I accidentally dismissed an important one with the space bar (pressing cancel). The space bar was meant for ⌘⇧4, but that was taking over a second, leading to the unfortunate dismissal of the prompt — the kind of prompt that macOS makes it hard to tell if you can reset. 😣
I was glad to found I'd documented this issue, and have unset the mic again. But I need to record screencaps regularly with voiceover, so this is still a frustrating bug. I'd much rather it was at least slow than unsafely causing muscle memory keyboard input to be sent to the wrong place, but I also see no reason that ⇧⌘4 (which, again, does not record audio and also does not show anything relating to a microphone or configuring one, in contrast with ⇧⌘5) should have this slowdown at all.
The cross-hairs are rather slow to appear, and the spacebar often gets sent to the foreground window if you are too fast.
Now, it turns out this is caused by the microphone setting for recording video of the screen, even if you are only invoking the single screenshot tool. 😳 This might also be affected by the fact that I use an external mic when possible, but it's not always plugged in.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/ka93de/screenshot_delay/gixik66/
Using Cmd-Shift-5 to set the microphone to "None"... does actually fix the speed of Cmd-Shift-4. 🤯
I do a lot of screen recording with voiceover, so this makes me worried I'll accidentally forget to to enable the mic some time when I need it. But unless/until Apple fixes this, I'd rather be able to take screenshots of windows without typing the spacebar too early.