Master Mission Control

Tame an unruly desktop with this genius built-in feature

WHEN YOU HAVE a horde of apps and windows open, it is easy to lose the one you want among the clutter. Luckily, there is a solution in the form of Mission Control. This provides a bird’s–eye view of every open window, instantly obliterating the turmoil.

Mission Control also uses Spaces, which are clones of your current desktop, minus all the open windows and apps. Spaces help organize your windows: you could move all your work documents to one desktop and everything else to another, and you can have up to 16 Spaces at once. Windows can be moved between Spaces with a few quick clicks, and you can even run two apps in Split View simply by dragging one on top of another in Mission Control.

Aside from all this, Mission Control’s settings contain a feature called Hot Corners. These assign specific tasks to each corner of your display, and all you have to do is move your mouse to the corner to set it in motion. ALEX BLAKE