There are dozens if not hundreds of macOS shortcuts and tricks to streamline your workflows and make it easier to use your Mac, but many of these shortcuts are easily overlooked or forgotten.

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For this guide and accompanying YouTube video, we asked MacRumors readers on Twitter and YouTube for their favorite, most useful macOS tips, which we've compiled below. Some of these are more basic and will work for all users, while others are a bit more advanced. Check out our video to see them in action, or read through the guide for a quick overview.

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Desktop and App Management

  • Activate Spotlight for Searching - To bring up a handy search interface that will let you find files on your Mac, just use Command + Space. Spotlight can do all kinds of things, from locating files to answering basic questions to solving math problems.
  • Swap Between Apps - To switch between your open applications, press Command + Tab. Keep holding down the Command key and then press Tab to cycle through the open apps. Let go when the app you want is highlighted.
  • Close Apps From App Switcher - When you're in the Command + Tab view, press the Q key with command held down to close an open app.
  • Hot Corners - If you don't already use Hot Corners, they're worth checking out. You can set tasks that will happen when your mouse hovers in a specific corner, like launching Mission Control, showing the desktop, and more. Set them up in System Preferences > Mission Control > Hot Corners.
  • Advanced Hot Corners - If you want to use Hot Corners but have found yourself accidentally activating features, hold down the Option key when setting up a Hot Corner. From there, the Hot Corner won't activate unless you're holding down the Option key.
  • Hide a Window - To quickly hide a window on the desktop, just press Command + H. The app will disappear into the background, but you can get it back by clicking on the icon on the dock or using Command + Tab.
  • Hide All Windows - You can hide all of the windows except for the window for the app you're currently using by pressing Option + Command + H.
  • Cycle Between App Windows - If you have multiple windows open for an app like Safari, you can swap between those open windows using Command + the Tilde (~) key.
  • Switch Between Multiple Desktops - If you use multiple desktops, you can swap between them quickly by pressing the Control button and then either the left or the right arrow.

Managing Files

  • Quickly Open Folders - To open up a folder in Finder or on your desktop, hold Command and press the down arrow key. To go back, just hold Command and press the up arrow key.
  • Clean Up Your Desktop - For those with macOS Mojave or later, on a messy desktop, just right click and choose 'Stacks' to have your Mac automatically organize everything by file type.
  • Instant File Deletion - If you want to delete a file and want to bypass the Trash Can on the Mac that saves files before deleting them, just select a file and press Option + Command + Delete at the same time.
  • Create an Auto Duplicating File - If you want to create a duplicate file when clicking on a specific file, just right click, select 'Get Info.' and then check the Stationary Pad box. Every time you open that file, it'll actually open a duplicate, which is great for templates and similar file types.

Screenshots

  • Video Screenshots - Shift + Command + 3 takes a screenshot, Shift + Command + 4 lets you select an area of the screen to screenshot, but Shift + Command + 5, a lesser known option, brings up an interface that lets you record your screen or a portion of your screen.
  • Cleaner Screenshots - When using Shift + Command + 4 to select an area of the screen, if you press spacebar, the icon turns to a camera. From there, you can click on any open window to get a screenshot of just that window or interface element like dock or menu bar.

Safari

  • Safari Picture-in-Picture (YouTube) - You can watch a video in Safari while you do other things. To do so with YouTube, just right click twice on a video that's playing to bring up a menu offering the picture-in-picture feature.
  • Safari Picture-in-Picture Pt. 2 - If the right clicking method doesn't work to pop out a video or you're not watching YouTube, there's another method. With a video playing, look for the audio icon in the Safari toolbar, right click it, and it should bring up a picture-in-picture option.
  • Easier Link Copying - If you want to copy the current URL in Safari, press Command + L to highlight the URL bar and then press Command + C to copy. It's quicker than using a mouse.

Force Touch Trackpad

  • Quick Looks - When using a Mac with a Force Touch Trackpad, if you click and hold on something like a website link or a YouTube video, you can see a little preview of the content to see what it is without having to leave the current page you're on.
  • Dictionary - If you see a word that you're not familiar with, highlight it and press down on it with the Force Touch Trackpad to get a dictionary definition.
  • Rename Folders and Files - If you Force Touch on a folder or file name, you can quickly rename it. Force Touch on a folder or file icon and you can see a preview of the file.

Apple Watch and Mac

  • Unlocking With Apple Watch - If you have an Apple Watch, you can use it to unlock your Mac, which is a super useful feature for those who don't know about it. To set it up, open System Preferences > Security & Privacy and then toggle on Unlock Mac with Apple Watch.
  • Apple Watch Password Authentication - For those with macOS Catalina and an Apple Watch, the Apple Watch can also be used as an alternative to a password so you don't need to type in passwords frequently.

Notification Center

  • Activate DND Quickly - If you hold the Option key and click on the Notification Center icon in the top right corner of your Mac's menu bar, you can activate Do Not Disturb.

Keyboard Tricks

  • Alternate Mouse Control - There's an option to control your mouse cursor with your keyboard, and it can be enabled in Accessibility. Open up the Accessibility settings and under Pointer Control, choose the Alternate Control Methods tab. From there, turn on Enable Mouse Keys and select toggle to turn on Mouse Keys when Option is pressed five times. When you press Option x5, Mouse Keys turn on and you can use the keyboard to move the mouse.
  • Quick Access to Function Key Settings - When pressing one of the function keys to activate Mission Control, Brightness, Media playback, and more, if you hold down Option when you press, you can access the corresponding Settings options inside System Preferences for those keys. Note: This doesn't work on Touch Bar Macs.

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  • Ki.spoon - Work in macOS like you work in vim (reddit post here)
    • Binds modal hotkeys to enter and exit a number of different modes to automate macOS
    • Ships with default shortcuts for almost every action for all stock macOS apps
    • Provides an API for configuring any default shortcut and adding your own custom modes, applications, and actions
  • andweeb's configuration - Personal usage and configuration of Ki.spoon and custom SizeUp-like window management
  • Lunette -- Zero-config Spectacle keybindings for Hammerspoon
  • VimMode.spoon -- Adds Vim movements and operations to any OS X input box. Trying to get a mostly complete set of motions and operators implemented. Supports jk to enter normal mode, as well as per-app disabling.
  • new-filet-o-fish -- Mac Improvemen
  • digitalbase init.lua -- Config for 34inch display. Focus/Launch apps with shortkeys, auto layout/tile for coding and comms, shortcuts to resize apps
  • Awesome-hammerspoon, as advertised. —- Highly modal-based, vim-styled key bindings, provides functionality like desktop widgets, window management, application launcher, timer indicator, dictionary translation, cheatsheets.. etc.
  • miro's window management -- To move windows in halves and corners using only arrows (no use of strange letters), magic and very intuitive!
  • CommandPost -- Adds lots of additional shortcuts and features to Apple's Final Cut Pro. Well documented, and makes use of almost every Hammerspoon extension (i.e AppleScript, GUI Scripting, hs.chooser, Pasteboard History, etc).
  • rtoshiro's init.lua -- Well documented. Some useful shortcuts to resize and position windows. Custom layouts for each application.
  • victorso's Jumpcut replacement -- Clipboard manager with direct paste option.
  • ztomer's Configuration -- Keyboard based move/ resize + Pomodoro timer.
  • asmagill's configuration -- undocumented and may invoke in-progress or not currently working code, but if you can use anything in it, enjoy!
  • heptal's configuration -- location-based redshift, imgur uploader, window movement/resizing with undo
  • marksantcroos's configuration -- near real-time view of my $HOME/.hammerspoon!
  • mgee's configuration -- Application specific window layouts and global keyboard layers.
  • BrianGilbert's configuration -- well documented, mainly window management things.
  • andrewhampton's configuration -- Window management and weather/gmail menubar items
  • TwoLeaves' configuration -- Supports changing Spaces.
  • Songchenwen's configuration -- Supports Undo.
  • exark's configuration - Basic window management and shortcuts. Readable and hopefully well-documented.
  • oskarols's configuration - Extended app launcher that cycles between app windows and saves mouse positions. Fullscreen-hotkey that toggles between fullscreen and previous state. Create a grid-on the fly and resize/move windows using your keyboard.
  • STRML's configuration - Basic window movement using hjkl keys, window resizing with -=[], saved layouts, Slack tab switching override (ctrl-tab is back!), saved layout for 4k screen.
  • jwkvam's configuration - Draws a red border around the active window.
  • pstadler's configuration - Fast spaces switching, resize and move windows, focus windows, reconnect to current wifi network, hotkey triggered caffeinate menu, enhanced battery status notifications
  • zzamboni's configuration - Near-live contents of my ~/.hammerspoon directory. Includes window management, audio control, clipboard management, and various other things as I add them.
  • szymon_k's configuration - huge config including one-of-a-kind functions like automatic launch/cycle/create-new-window for multiple apps (smartLaunchOrFocus), moving windows between spaces (moveToSpace), ios-like dot indicators for spaces at the bottom of the screen (spacesDots), and more crazy stuff.
  • Oh-my-Hammerspoon! - early work on a generic framework for Hammerspoon configuration that provides a useful out-of-the-box configuration and allows loading and configuration of 'plugins'. Draws a lot of code and ideas from some of the other configurations in this page.
  • tdlm's pastebin.lua - CTRL+ALT+CMD+P for pasting text to pastebin API and getting a URL copied to your clipboard on success. Requires API keys.
  • tdlm's url_shortener.lua - CTRL+ALT+CMD+S for pasting URL bit.ly API and getting a URL copied to your clipboard on success. Requires API key.
  • tdlm's github_pull_requests.lua - Lists Github Pull Requests in menu bar with a simple number indication. Requires API key and filling out the GITHUB_API_USER, GITHUB_API_TOKEN and GITHUB_REPOS fields.
  • Teun's configs - Google Authenticator tokens at a keystroke, making use of OSX Keychain, Dutch TV guide in a menu
  • Dharma Poudel's configs - Cheatsheet copycat, battery configurations, window management and many more random stuffs.
  • j-martin's config - Combination of hyper-key mapping for applications and window management.
  • scottcs's config - timers, cheatsheet, notational velocity, scratchpad, weather, and more.
  • spacehammer - simple config inspired by Spacemacs
  • S1ngS1ng's init.lua
    • Window management includes Set to Another Screen, Snap to 4 directions, and Free-Style Resize
      • NEW Add Windows-like reletive window cycle. Works the same as winKey + left/right
    • Global music control shortcut (I am using VOX for now). See vox-control.lua
    • NEW VIM-like key global binding, i.e. Ctrl + h/j/k/l. Works well with combination of alt, shift, and cmd. Thanks to A-Ron's help
  • weather menu bar app - Shows current temperature and conditions in the menu bar (based on Yahoo Weather API)
  • Launcher Mode (inspired by Karabiner) - Use right-cmd + X to launch Xcode, right-cmd + C=Chrome, right-cmd + T=Terminal, etc.
  • control+hjkl to arrow keys - simple configutation. just key remapping `control + hjkl' to 'arrow keys'
  • raulchen's configuration: Tmux style prefix key bindings, window management, mouse key, double CMD-Q to quit app, Vim style arrow keys, and more.
  • dulm's config - A framework for diffrent app with diffrent key binding. In this file is emacs basic key binding.
  • hyperex - pwerful hyper-key library
  • foundation_remapping - implementation of TN2450: Remapping Keys in Sierra
  • knu's modules - key chord implementation (SimultaneousKeyPress in Karabiner), application/window based keymap, pseudo hotkeys with extended modifiers support, emoji chooser, etc.
  • anoxape's .hammerspoon - cheatsheet, dock_press, ensure, layout_cache, etc.
  • ControlEscape.spoon - Supercharge your control key. Tap it for escape. Hold it for control. (Optional: Remap caps lock to enjoy a physical key for control and escape right on the home row.)
  • tarpdalton's config - remap extra mouse buttons to switch desktop spaces
  • Hammerspoon config - Some key bindings, hopefully useful selection of modules/spoons/menubar_apps + IOTD from various sources
  • dbmrq's configuration
  • MenuHammer - A menuing system based on the Spacemacs command system. Menus are customizable with a simple table and a variety of actions (including executing lua functions) can be performed by menu items.
  • danshan's configuration - Application launcher, Window resize, and window movement.

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