diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 208b90faf636..52487eeaf581 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 - `[expect]` Improve report when mock-spy matcher fails, part 4 ([#8710](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8710))
 - `[expect]` Throw matcher error when received cannot be jasmine spy ([#8747](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8747))
 - `[jest-snapshot]` Highlight substring differences when matcher fails, part 3 ([#8569](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8569))
+- `[jest-core]` Improve report when snapshots are obsolete ([#8448](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8665))
 - `[jest-cli]` Improve chai support (with detailed output, to match jest exceptions) ([#8454](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8454))
 - `[*]` Manage the global timeout with `--testTimeout` command line argument. ([#8456](https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/8456))
 - `[pretty-format]` Render custom displayName of memoized components
diff --git a/e2e/__tests__/snapshot-unknown.test.ts b/e2e/__tests__/snapshot-unknown.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b1697cae7077
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/__tests__/snapshot-unknown.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+import runJest from '../runJest';
+
+describe('Snapshot serializers', () => {
+  it('renders snapshot', () => {
+    const result = runJest('snapshot-unknown', ['-w=1']);
+    const stderr = result.stderr;
+
+    expect(stderr).toMatch('2 snapshot files obsolete');
+    expect(stderr).toMatch('__tests__/__snapshots__/fails.test.js.snap');
+    expect(stderr).toMatch('__tests__/__snapshots__/fails2.test.js.snap');
+    expect(result.status).toBe(1);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/__snapshots__/fails.test.js.snap b/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/__snapshots__/fails.test.js.snap
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2c4c1a181285
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/__snapshots__/fails.test.js.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
+
+exports[`snapshot this one makes not toMatchSnapshot assertion, but has a .snap file 1`] = `"normal"`;
diff --git a/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/__snapshots__/fails2.test.js.snap b/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/__snapshots__/fails2.test.js.snap
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2c4c1a181285
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/__snapshots__/fails2.test.js.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
+
+exports[`snapshot this one makes not toMatchSnapshot assertion, but has a .snap file 1`] = `"normal"`;
diff --git a/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/__snapshots__/works.test.js.snap b/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/__snapshots__/works.test.js.snap
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2a8b56674496
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/__snapshots__/works.test.js.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
+
+exports[`snapshot some snapshots exists and are fine 1`] = `"normal"`;
diff --git a/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/works.test.js b/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/works.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a02cba20cbef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/snapshot-unknown/__tests__/works.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ *
+ */
+'use strict';
+
+describe('snapshot', () => {
+  it('some snapshots exists and are fine', () => {
+    expect('normal').toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/e2e/snapshot-unknown/package.json b/e2e/snapshot-unknown/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..148788b25446
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/snapshot-unknown/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "jest": {
+    "testEnvironment": "node"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/jest-core/src/TestScheduler.ts b/packages/jest-core/src/TestScheduler.ts
index ff29bde939b2..bce8ca39125d 100644
--- a/packages/jest-core/src/TestScheduler.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-core/src/TestScheduler.ts
@@ -145,9 +145,13 @@ export default class TestScheduler {
           context.hasteFS,
           this._globalConfig.updateSnapshot,
           snapshot.buildSnapshotResolver(context.config),
+          context.config.testPathIgnorePatterns,
         );
 
         aggregatedResults.snapshot.filesRemoved += status.filesRemoved;
+        aggregatedResults.snapshot.filesRemovedList = (
+          aggregatedResults.snapshot.filesRemovedList || []
+        ).concat(status.filesRemovedList);
       });
       const updateAll = this._globalConfig.updateSnapshot === 'all';
       aggregatedResults.snapshot.didUpdate = updateAll;
diff --git a/packages/jest-reporters/src/__tests__/get_snapshot_summary.test.js b/packages/jest-reporters/src/__tests__/get_snapshot_summary.test.js
index c2a911d22365..fb76b156b1e2 100644
--- a/packages/jest-reporters/src/__tests__/get_snapshot_summary.test.js
+++ b/packages/jest-reporters/src/__tests__/get_snapshot_summary.test.js
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ test('creates a snapshot summary', () => {
     didUpdate: false,
     filesAdded: 1,
     filesRemoved: 1,
+    filesRemovedList: [],
     filesUnmatched: 1,
     filesUpdated: 1,
     matched: 2,
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ test('creates a snapshot summary after an update', () => {
     didUpdate: true,
     filesAdded: 1,
     filesRemoved: 1,
+    filesRemovedList: [],
     filesUnmatched: 1,
     filesUpdated: 1,
     unchecked: 1,
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@ it('creates a snapshot summary with multiple snapshot being written/updated', ()
     didUpdate: false,
     filesAdded: 2,
     filesRemoved: 2,
+    filesRemovedList: [],
     filesUnmatched: 2,
     filesUpdated: 2,
     unchecked: 2,
@@ -105,6 +108,7 @@ it('returns nothing if there are no updates', () => {
     didUpdate: false,
     filesAdded: 0,
     filesRemoved: 0,
+    filesRemovedList: [],
     filesUnmatched: 0,
     filesUpdated: 0,
     unchecked: 0,
diff --git a/packages/jest-reporters/src/__tests__/summary_reporter.test.js b/packages/jest-reporters/src/__tests__/summary_reporter.test.js
index b4b56758a6c7..ead47477fc61 100644
--- a/packages/jest-reporters/src/__tests__/summary_reporter.test.js
+++ b/packages/jest-reporters/src/__tests__/summary_reporter.test.js
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ test('snapshots needs update with yarn test', () => {
     numTotalTestSuites: 1,
     numTotalTests: 1,
     snapshot: {
+      filesRemovedList: [],
       filesUnmatched: 1,
       total: 2,
       uncheckedKeysByFile: [],
@@ -98,6 +99,7 @@ test('snapshots all have results (no update)', () => {
       didUpdate: false,
       filesAdded: 1,
       filesRemoved: 1,
+      filesRemovedList: [],
       filesUnmatched: 1,
       filesUpdated: 1,
       matched: 2,
@@ -134,6 +136,7 @@ test('snapshots all have results (after update)', () => {
       didUpdate: true,
       filesAdded: 1,
       filesRemoved: 1,
+      filesRemovedList: [],
       filesUnmatched: 1,
       filesUpdated: 1,
       matched: 2,
diff --git a/packages/jest-reporters/src/get_snapshot_summary.ts b/packages/jest-reporters/src/get_snapshot_summary.ts
index 902cb79b7034..214963b0edf4 100644
--- a/packages/jest-reporters/src/get_snapshot_summary.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-reporters/src/get_snapshot_summary.ts
@@ -84,6 +84,14 @@ export default (
       );
     }
   }
+  if (snapshots.filesRemovedList && snapshots.filesRemovedList.length) {
+    const [head, ...tail] = snapshots.filesRemovedList;
+    summary.push(`  ${DOWN_ARROW} ${DOT}${formatTestPath(globalConfig, head)}`);
+
+    tail.forEach(key => {
+      summary.push(`      ${DOT}${formatTestPath(globalConfig, key)}`);
+    });
+  }
 
   if (snapshots.unchecked) {
     if (snapshots.didUpdate) {
diff --git a/packages/jest-snapshot/src/index.ts b/packages/jest-snapshot/src/index.ts
index dd9978d1acb5..a6de3a1a9ddd 100644
--- a/packages/jest-snapshot/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-snapshot/src/index.ts
@@ -122,22 +122,39 @@ const cleanup = (
   hasteFS: HasteFS,
   update: Config.SnapshotUpdateState,
   snapshotResolver: JestSnapshotResolver,
-) => {
+  testPathIgnorePatterns?: Config.ProjectConfig['testPathIgnorePatterns'],
+): {
+  filesRemoved: number;
+  filesRemovedList: Array<string>;
+} => {
   const pattern = '\\.' + EXTENSION + '$';
   const files = hasteFS.matchFiles(pattern);
-  const filesRemoved = files.reduce((acc, snapshotFile) => {
-    if (!fileExists(snapshotResolver.resolveTestPath(snapshotFile), hasteFS)) {
+  let testIgnorePatternsRegex: RegExp | null = null;
+  if (testPathIgnorePatterns && testPathIgnorePatterns.length > 0) {
+    testIgnorePatternsRegex = new RegExp(testPathIgnorePatterns.join('|'));
+  }
+
+  const list = files.filter(snapshotFile => {
+    const testPath = snapshotResolver.resolveTestPath(snapshotFile);
+
+    // ignore snapshots of ignored tests
+    if (testIgnorePatternsRegex && testIgnorePatternsRegex.test(testPath)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    if (!fileExists(testPath, hasteFS)) {
       if (update === 'all') {
         fs.unlinkSync(snapshotFile);
       }
-      return acc + 1;
+      return true;
     }
 
-    return acc;
-  }, 0);
+    return false;
+  });
 
   return {
-    filesRemoved,
+    filesRemoved: list.length,
+    filesRemovedList: list,
   };
 };
 
diff --git a/packages/jest-test-result/src/helpers.ts b/packages/jest-test-result/src/helpers.ts
index 202cd2bf6e8c..6020142861bc 100644
--- a/packages/jest-test-result/src/helpers.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-test-result/src/helpers.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ export const makeEmptyAggregatedTestResult = (): AggregatedResult => ({
     filesAdded: 0,
     // combines individual test results + removed files after the full run
     filesRemoved: 0,
+    filesRemovedList: [],
     filesUnmatched: 0,
     filesUpdated: 0,
     matched: 0,
diff --git a/packages/jest-test-result/src/types.ts b/packages/jest-test-result/src/types.ts
index e9acdc40fc86..a9427cd7abb2 100644
--- a/packages/jest-test-result/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/jest-test-result/src/types.ts
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ export type SnapshotSummary = {
   failure: boolean;
   filesAdded: number;
   filesRemoved: number;
+  filesRemovedList: Array<string>;
   filesUnmatched: number;
   filesUpdated: number;
   matched: number;