Why does my snipping tool no longer bring up the pop up image to edit?

It is definitely a flaw to me and the fix is not that difficult so maybe this is intentional. If so, that is a bad decision from MS. IMO

Really? so are you saying the snip tool pops up automatically when you drag a screen shot? Right now I have to re-click the icon to get my screen shot to pull up again.

This only happened because we had a work wide mandatory update from 10 to 11. It was fine before.

I also contacted our IT team and they said MS think this is how snip tool should work now.. what. I think it's a flaw. Make taking screen shots that much longer.

The correct behavior of the snipping tool in Windows 11 should be that you:

1. windows-shift-s
2. drag a box
3. you'll get a toast notification in the lower right with your screenshot and the screenshot will also be in your clipboard
4. if you click the toast notification, it will open the snipping tool where you can save to disk, highlight, or draw
5. if you don't click the toast notification, you can just paste (ctrl-v) anywhere that an image can be pasted (e.g., MS Word, Slack/Discord/Element, many websites, etc.)

If you find that the toast notification doesn't appear (step 3), then you are experiencing the bug reported here. It means the snipping tool has crashed/locked up and you'll need to manually kill it before you can take another screenshot. If you experience the above workflow, then that is the "working as intended" behavior of the snipping tool in Windows 11.

The main reason isn't that I want to paste right away. It's that I want to save the image. The notification you still have to click on it to save it which is an extra step compared to if the window just pops back up and you can click save. Thank you for explaining how it works though.

The correct behavior of the snipping tool in Windows 11 should be that you:

1. windows-shift-s
2. drag a box
3. you'll get a toast notification in the lower right with your screenshot and the screenshot will also be in your clipboard
4. if you click the toast notification, it will open the snipping tool where you can save to disk, highlight, or draw
5. if you don't click the toast notification, you can just paste (ctrl-v) anywhere that an image can be pasted (e.g., MS Word, Slack/Discord/Element, many websites, etc.)

If you find that the toast notification doesn't appear (step 3), then you are experiencing the bug reported here. It means the snipping tool has crashed/locked up and you'll need to manually kill it before you can take another screenshot. If you experience the above workflow, then that is the "working as intended" behavior of the snipping tool in Windows 11.

This is precisely my issue too. Yet, I'm the only person at my company with the issue. I have tried Terminate, Repair, Reset for the app, made all sorts of changes to Notifications and the Task bar. Nothing works.

This is pretty typical of my whole experience with Win11.... The processes that I had down to the fewest clicks and keystrokes in Win10 have now become extra cumbersome in Win11.

Sure would be nice if I could un-combine all my taskbar icons. I guess it doesn't matter if my workflow is hampered as long as Microsoft knows that my workspace meets their aesthetic requirements to look as close to other OS as possible.

It's work. Thanks Drakonius Rex.