Mission Control

TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR WINDOWS AND APPLICATIONS.

01 GET THE HANG OF GESTURES

Mission Control makes great use of trackpad gestures. You can open it with a three-fingered swipe upwards, and close it by doing the same thing downwards. Swipe left or right with the same three fingers and you can move between open windows. You can customise these gestures in System Preferences.

02 GET HOT IN THE CORNER

You can automatically access Mission Control features by assigning Hot Corners, which activate when you move the pointer to that corner and which can open Mission Control or focus on the current window. A big time saver.

03 USE THE ARROW KEYS

If you don’t want to use Hot Corners or trackpad gestures, you can hold down Ctrl and use the arrow keys. Ctrl-Up Arrow will open Mission Control, Ctrl-Down Arrow will focus on the current window, or Ctrl-Left Arrow or Right Arrow will move between your spaces.

04 CREATE NEW SPACES

You can create a new, full-screen desktop for an app or an individual app window by invoking Mission Control and then dragging the app to an empty bit of the

Spaces bar. To remove a space, hold Opt and then click on the “X”. Open windows in that space won’t be closed, they will be moved to one of your open spaces instead.

05ASSIGN APPS TO DESKTOPS

You can get your Mac to open apps in specific desktops without having to open the app first. Click and hold or Ctrl-click on an app’s dock icon and select Options.

06 MAKE EACH DESKTOP LOOK DIFFERENT

It’s easy to put a different wallpaper on each of your Mission Control desktops. Go into System Prefs > Desktop & Screen Saver (you may need to drag the window to the desktop you want to change).