5 tips and tricks for Mission Control on Mac that are worth knowing

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As part of the Mission Control function, you can create several desktops on your Mac, the order of which you can change at will, and you can also switch between them. To create a new desktop, first activate Mission Control - for example by pressing the F3 key. On the bar with desktop previews that appears at the top of your Mac screen, then click + on the far right.

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Applications in Split View mode
Among other things, Mission Control also allows you to easily and quickly organize apps for working in Split View mode. If you want to put a pair of apps in Split View mode in Mission Control, activate Mission Control and then drag and drop one of the desired apps into preview bar at the top of the screen. To add a second application to Split View mode, the second application is then sufficient move to desktop with the app added, which will automatically activate Split View.

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Keyboard shortcut customization

By default, you can activate Mission Control in several possible ways - by pressing the F3 key, pressing Control + up arrow, or swiping up with three fingers on the trackpad. If you want to change the keyboard shortcut you use to activate Mission Control, in the upper-left corner of your Mac screen, click Apple menu -> System Settings, on the right side of the settings window, select Desktop and Dock and then in the main part of the window, head to the section Mission Control. Finally click on Abbreviations and in the section Mission Control select the desired shortcut in the drop-down menu.

Adding an application to a new desktop

In Mission Control, you can not only create an empty desktop in seconds, but also easily and quickly create a new desktop from any application. To create a new desktop from an application, simply grab icon or application window with the mouse cursor , and then drag to the top of your Mac screen until a bar with desktop previews appears. Then the application place in lane and let go

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Display a desktop preview

In Mission Control mode, if you click on the selected preview in the area preview bar, you will immediately go to that area automatically. But how to do it if you just want to preview the given desktop? The procedure is very easy - just hold down the key in the display of thumbnails Option (old) and at the same time click on the selected thumbnail with the mouse cursor.