How can I take a screenshot of the app switcher in macOS? Pressing Cmd + Tab brings up the application switcher in macOS. I'd like to take a screenshot of this view.

I've tried:


Opening the app switcher with Cmd + Tab, holding Cmd, and then pressing Shift and 3 at the same time to attempt to activate the usual Cmd + Shift and 3 screenshot keyboard shortcut.

It results in the app switcher switching to the next app and no screenshot getting captured.
Changing the screenshot keyboard shortcut to F6 or Shift + /, which were unmapped before. Now after opening the app switcher using Cmd + Tab, holding Cmd, and then pressing this key combination again results in no screenshot getting captured.


Is it possible to take a screenshot of the app switcher? I'm happy to install additional software to achieve this.
Use the timer option in the new screenshot popup app.

 Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧   5 
Select Capture Entire Screen on the left &amp; 5 seconds from the Options menu



Click Capture.
During that 5s countdown, hit  Cmd ⌘   Tab ⇥   

The resulting image will contain the switcher [intentionally tiny picture]



Interestingly, whilst composing this answer I discovered you can open the Screenshot app, then take a picture of it using the 'old'  Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧   3  command ;)