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How to Save an Image from the Clipboard as a File on Mac
With Supercharge
- Open the settings of Supercharge, and click “Tweaks”.
- In the “Finder” section, turn on “Paste image or plain text as file when using CommandV”. Then choose “PNG” or “JPEG” in “Image format”.
- Copy an image. To take a screenshot to the clipboard, also hold Control when you press the screenshot keys, like ControlShiftCommand4.
- In Finder, open a folder, or click the desktop, and press CommandV. The file is in the folder.
It also makes a text file from plain text that you copied, and “Generate filename for text files using Apple Intelligence” can give that file a name. Only the keyboard shortcut works, not the “Paste” menu item. When the clipboard has files, Finder pastes them as usual.
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- Platform
- macOS
- Requires
- macOS 26.4 or later
- Released
- September 2024
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- Updated
- September 2026
- Version
- 1.30.1
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Without an app
Preview makes a new image from the clipboard:
- Copy the image.
- Open Preview, and choose “File › New from Clipboard”.
- Choose “File › Save”, and choose the format and the folder.
This is good for one image. On macOS 27, CommandV in Finder also makes a file from a copied image, but the file is a TIFF. Supercharge is for when you do this often and want a PNG or a JPEG, in the folder where you are.