I do not know how to use the Apple experience? You make your mac yet? In fact, there are many shortcuts and tips to help simplify our workflow, improve efficiency, but often overlooked or forgotten in their daily lives on macOS. The following are some of macOS macdown finishing small series of practical tips, hoping to help you make better use of Apple computers.
Desktop and application management
Focus is activated search
If you want to call up the search focused in the first time, you can use Command + [Space]. Focus search can find any computer located in a wide range of items, including documents, pictures, music, applications, system preferences console, or PDF files can also be specified in the word.
Also in the Apple recommended a called Alfred, efficiency artifact called the Mac App, you do not even have a mouse with Alfred can achieve a variety of operations, including starting all kinds of files, network operations, its UI interface is easy to use, and not achieved by the command.
Switching between applications
This feature is somewhat similar to the Windows system, you simply press Command + Tab []. Press and hold the Command key, then press the Tab key to cycle through open applications. When the application is highlighted, indicating that the currently selected application, if you want to enter, then just let go of all keys can be.
Exit the application when the application switches
In the hold [Command + Tab] view, press the Command key while the Q key press, to close open applications.
Setting the firing angle
If you have not used the firing angle, it is worth a try. You can set hovering over a particular corner, set to trigger tasks, such as start dispatch center, Show Desktop and so on. In the System Preferences [] -> [dispatch center] -> [] are set firing angle.
Advanced firing angle
If you want to set the firing angle, but found that this feature is triggered between the often unintentionally, affecting the normal operation, then set the firing angle while holding down the Option key. From now on, unless you hold down the Option key, otherwise it will not activate the firing angle.
Hide Window
To quickly hide windows on the desktop, simply press [Command + H]. The application will disappear in the background, but you can click on the icon or using the program dock [Command + Tab] to activate it.
Hide all windows
By pressing [Option + Command + H] can hide all windows except the application you are currently used by the window.
In the loop between application windows
If you open a plurality of windows for the application Safari and the like, may be used Command + ~ {} key switch between open windows.
Switching between multiple desktops
If you use multiple desktops, by pressing the left or rearwardly Control + [arrow], to achieve fast switching, but you can also use the touch panel directly to quickly switch.
File Management
Quickly open the folder
To quickly open the folder, just in the state of the selected folder, press Command + [down arrow] key in the Finder or the desktop. If you want to return, simply hold down the Command + [arrow up] key. Also, if the Finder or the desktop file is selected, then press and hold Command + [down arrow] will directly open the file content.
Desktop Cleanup
For macOS Mojave later users or, in the cluttered desktop, just right-click and choose [use] stacked, you can have your Mac automatically organize all the contents by file type.
Instant File Delete
If you want to delete a file, and want to bypass the trash on a Mac, simply select a file, then press [Option + Command + Delete] to.
Create a file is automatically copied
If you want to create a copy when you open a specific file, just right of the original file, and then select [Show Info], check the [version] kind in the introduction interface. So every time when you open the original file, it actually opens a copy, which is useful for templates and similar file types.
Screenshots
Screenshots
[Command + Shift + 3] can intercept the entire screen snapshots. [Command + Shift + 4] allows you to select a screen shot of the screen area. [Command + Shift + 5], a little-known option, a screen will pop up, allowing you to record part of the screen or the screen recording.
More accurate screenshot
[Command + Shift + 4] When you select the screen area, if you press the space bar, the icon will change to camera. Then you can click any open window, or move the program to the dock, menu bar, etc., to obtain the corresponding screenshots.
Safari
Picture in Picture
While performing other operations, you can watch the video in Safari. For example, to perform this operation on Youku, simply select the picture in picture function to play the video in the menu.
Copy the link easier
If you want to copy the current URL in Safari, simply press Command + L] [focusing first browser address bar and press the Command + C] to copy, it really is much faster than using the mouse.
touchpad
Quick View
Apple used in conjunction with the touchpad. When browsing or YouTuBe similar Youku and other sites, when you click and hold video-related content, without leaving the current page, you can preview the content of the video.
dictionary
When you see an unfamiliar word, highlight the word and then use the touchpad press it to get the dictionary explanation.
Rename files and folders
When you use the touchpad to select the folder or file name, you can quickly rename. When the touchpad to select a folder or file, you can also see a preview of the file.
Apple Watch和Mac
Unlock Mac with Apple Watch
If you have Apple Watch, then you can use it to unlock the Mac, this is a very useful feature for people who do not understand it. To set in [System Preferences]> [] security and privacy, under a common tick [Mac] allow Apple Watch unlocked.
Apple Watch password authentication
For macOS Catalina users and Apple Watch, Apple Watch it can also be used as a substitute for a password, so you do not often enter a password.
Notification Center
Quickly activate Do Not Disturb mode
Hold down the Option key, and then click the Notification Center icon in the upper right corner of the Mac menu bar, you can activate the Do Not Disturb mode.
Keyboard Skills
Instead of the mouse control
There is an option to use the keyboard to control the mouse cursor, you can enable it in the auxiliary functions. Open the [Accessibility] settings, and then in the [mouse] with the touch pad, check the mouse button is enabled [] tab. Check in option [Press the Option key five times to turn Mouse Keys], then when you press the Option x5 time, open the mouse button, you can use the keyboard to move the mouse.
Quick access to key settings
Pressing the appropriate function key to activate the task control, brightness, media playback functions. If you press the function key, hold down the Option key, you can access these keys corresponding setting options in System Preferences. Note: This does not work on the Touch Bar Macs.