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@github-actions github-actions released this 02 Oct 15:41
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Removed

  • Censor auto-redact — the All Text, PII (and its type picker), Faces and People buttons and the "Text Only" draw mode are gone from the Censor tool. Censor is now drawn by hand only, with the same four modes: pixelate, blur, solid fill and smart erase.

Changed

  • No default global hotkeys — Cmd+Shift+X, Cmd+Shift+F, Cmd+Shift+S and Cmd+Shift+T are no longer assigned out of the box. A global hotkey takes that shortcut away from every other app (Cmd+Shift+T is "reopen closed tab" in browsers, Cmd+Shift+S is "Save As" almost everywhere). Assign your own in Settings > Shortcuts. If you were using the defaults, set them again after upgrading; hotkeys you had changed yourself are kept.
  • The simpleshot:// URL scheme is now off by default — any app on your Mac can open these URLs, and capture-fullscreen-quick captures and copies/saves the full screen without asking, so another app could use it to get a screenshot without its own Screen Recording permission. If you call SimpleShot from Raycast, Alfred, Shortcuts or a script, turn it back on in Settings > General. A setting you already saved yourself is kept.
  • Settings import/export only touches SimpleShot's own settings — both directions now use a fixed list of known settings instead of guessing from key names. Importing a file never writes anything else (leftover keys from older builds or upstream macshot, or anything added by hand). Your save folder still stays on this Mac.
  • Simpler internals, no behavior change — the creation code for the retired Highlight, Loupe and Measure tools was deleted (existing annotations of those types still display and can be moved, resized and deleted), along with an unused entry in Info.plist, leftover references to the removed screenshot history, and unused code left over from screen recording and single-key tool shortcuts (save cancellation and progress, file copying, temporary-file leases).

Fixed

  • Scroll capture on multiple displays — the overlay used as the "capture what's below this window" reference was picked at random from all displays' overlays, so the overlay on the display being captured could end up in the stitched frames. It now always uses the overlay you started the scroll capture on.
  • Scroll capture hands focus to the scrolled app more reliably — before auto-scrolling, SimpleShot activated the app under the selection with a call that newer macOS can ignore. It now uses the same cooperative activation as the rest of the app (macOS 14+).
  • AVIF files can be opened — SimpleShot could save AVIF but refused AVIF files from Finder's "Open With", a drag onto the app icon, or simpleshot://open?file=.
  • No empty overlay when a screen can't be captured — if the fallback capture path got images for only some displays, the others showed an overlay with no screenshot that blocked clicks until Esc. Those displays are now left alone.
  • Out-of-range settings fall back to defaults — an invalid Enter / Quick Capture action (for example from a hand-edited settings file) is treated as "Copy to clipboard" instead of silently doing nothing, and the capture delay and pencil smoothing are clamped to the values Settings offers.