MacBook Air Tips & Tricks
June 2, 2016
Mission Control
Mission Control offers a bird's-eye view of all your open windows, desktop spaces, full-screen apps, making it easy to switch between them. With a single swipe, all the windows on your desktop arrange themselves in a single layer, with nothing stacked or hidden. Mission Control places your windows in the same relative location, so you can spot the one you’re looking for more quickly. *From Apple Website*
Why Use Mission Control?
Below are directions to show how I had Chrome, Firefox and Photos open and added each to a virtual desktop. Then I could easily go back and forth between each application in full screen mode without minimizing and maximizing anything.
Open Mission Control
Add a Space (Virtual Desktop) & Move Windows to a Space
Move a window to a desktop space: Drag the window to that space in the Spaces bar.
Moving from one virtual desktop space to another: there are several ways to do this.
- Use 3 fingers to swipe left.
- Go back to Mission Control by swiping up with 3 fingers or use F3. Then click on the desktop you want to open.