Windows 10: Snip & Sketch app no longer opens automatically when doing a Print Screen

In the past, when I used the Print Screen key, I would get the Snip & Sketch selection bar where you select what you want to screenshot. After selecting the area to screenshot, it would automatically open it in Snip & Sketch. I could then save or edit the screenshot.

Now, when I use the Print Screen key, I still get the Snip & Sketch selection and can take a screenshot. However, it is just copied in the background, rather than it automatically opening up the Snip & Sketch app with the screenshot in it.

So in order to save a screenshot now, I have to open the app first, then click the icon to take the screenshot. I preferred it before when I could just use the Print Screen key, it would open the screenshot inside the app, and I could save it from there. Is there any way to do that now?

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Snip & Sketch

It's the Snipping Tool that's being phased out, not Snip & Sketch. FWIW, I just used the latter tool and was able to paste the snip into a Word (Office 365) document. There was a point in the past when for reasons unknown, opening Word would clear the
clipboard. If you're using an older version, you might want to try opening the document first, before taking a screenshot.

If you prefer to use Snipping Tool, all you have to do (as I suggested earlier) is open the Start Menu and type snip.

 

Snip and Sketch Awkward

Use Windows+shift+s to launch Snip and Sketch. Can snip a screenshot.

Now the problem is this: after snipping the screen shot, it does not automatically appear in the Snip and Sketch app. So I open Snip and Sketch and there's nothing on it.

So I have choose 'new' and snip the screen yet again.

I recall using this once and taking a screenshot and voila! Snip and Sketch appeared with the screen shot duly in the app's workspace, ready for annotations and saving etc. This facility has disappeared. I have re-set it according to instructions, and even
reinstalled it - yet the problem persists.

Would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks

 

Snip & Sketch No Longer Opens

The behaviour you're describing seems exactly as expected, except you don't get the notification- maybe you have that notification disabled.

See
Take a Screen Snip with Snip and Sketch in Windows 10

This matches your experience if in fact you are comparing the behaviour of the previous Snipping tool:
windows 10 - Automatically open Snip & Sketch editor after using snipping tool with Win+Shift+S - Super User