
- Mission control plus mac#
- Mission control plus windows#
Mission control plus windows#
You can bring back the old days: go to System Preferences > Mission Control and select the Group Windows by Applications checkbox. Mission Control used to group windows by app. ③ Invoke Mission Control to get a bird’s-eye view of all open windows.
Mission control plus mac#
② Set a hot corner for Mission Control.Īll open windows on your Mac (no longer stacked by app) shrink so you can see them side by side ③. Now, just move your pointer to that corner and Mission Control appears. Pick the one you want and then choose Mission Control in the menu ②. You see four pop-up menus that correspond to the four corners of your Mac’s display. To do this, go to System Preferences > Mission Control and click the Hot Corners button.
Hover in a hot corner: Revealing Mission Control can be as easy as sliding your pointer to the corner of your screen, if you’ve set up a hot corner. From the Dock: To keep Mission Control in the Dock for one-click access, go to Applications and drag Mission Control onto the Dock. Or, spread out with your thumb and three fingers. On a multi-touch trackpad: Perform a four-finger upward swipe. From the keyboard: On an Apple keyboard, press the Mission Control button (F3), or on any keyboard, press Control-Up arrow. Drag the middle divider to make more room for one side. Drag and drop images, text, and links between them. ① El Capitan’s Split View focuses in on two apps or windows. Split View fills your display with the two things you’re working on right now, making it easy to compare two documents or keep your research to one side while you write notes on the other ①. Mission Control also makes it easier to set up tidy, predictable Spaces where certain apps live-kind of like separating your clothes into different drawers instead of dumping them all into one.Įl Capitan’s biggest addition to Mission Control, though, is taken straight from iOS 9. OS X’s spiffed up Mission Control helps bring order to chaos, making it easier to find the window you want by letting you see them all at the touch of a button.
Mail, Messages, Safari, Calendar, iTunes-the windows can stack up so high that it takes a bit to figure out where the one you need has gone. Most of us use a lot of apps at the same time.