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

I also noticed that behavior. I was used to taking perhaps 2 or 3 snips in succession and having the Snipping Tool show them in separate windows that I could return to later.

The solution I found was in the Snipping Tool settings. Enable "Multiple windows" - "Open new screenshots in different windows".

However, I agree that the tool is broken at the moment in that the Snipping Tool window does not pop-up automatically. The pop-up notification shows at the bottom-right but an extra click is required to force the window to open with the screenshot. I first noticed this a while ago when using the Win Key + Shift + S keyboard shortcut but as I normally use a right-click on the taskbar Snipping Tool shortcut to take a new snip (immediately or with a delay) and this used to behave perfectly (presenting me immediately with a Snipping Tool window) I wasn't too annoyed by it.

Another bug which I've seen since first using Windows 11, is that even when the Snipping Tool window popped up automatically, it's position on the display bounced around all over the place. In other words the tool would not remember the size and position of the window unlike almost all other Windows applications I can think of. This is still the case today.

Finally a relatively minor change compared with the Windows 10 version is the lack of an "Open with" option. In Windows 10, with the Snipping Tool editing window open, I could click the 3-dots menu and click "Open with". I could then select another image editing application to edit the screenshot. When done and saved, I could then simply close the Snipping Tool window. Instead there is an "Edit in Paint" option shoe-horned into the menus at the top of the window and standing out like a sore thumb. The new Paint is okay but if I want to use my preferred image editing application, I have to save the snip and then open it in the other application. This is no big deal but yet another little annoyance.

There are some nice enhancements such as the screen recording (although as others have noticed, this feature seems to have broken the automatic window opening), the 5 second delay (previously it was just 3 or 10), and the OCR option (although I tend to use the Power Toys keyboard shortcut for this at the moment), it's frustrating that Microsoft don't seem to listen to valuable feedback as presented in this forum and address obvious bugs.

Shaun.

Resetting the app worked, Thanks!

All I did was uninstall the past 3 updates and reinstall them, they can be found in the update section under previous updates, there's a vast list of all previous updates that you would of installed. Once I reinstalled via updating to the latest version it fixed my issue and all is back to normal. I shall put a video on my YouTube channel later regarding this.

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Hi Lee, good to know that you fixed your Snipping Tools issue. My issue has still remaining and even myself and Microsfot customer support help centek0 help team couldn't fix the issue. Could you please share the details steps that how to re-install the last updates procedure or any link where people can get assistance about to fix this issue.