Done with full screen? Hit Command+Power again to toggle out of it. When you really need to focus or make the most of limited screen real estate on a laptop, go Full Screen. This keystroke is best paired with a defaults command that makes hidden app icons transparent in the Dock, giving you a simple visual indicator of what’s hidden and what’s not.

Much less clutter, much less to distract. In a mess of window clutter from a million applications? Just hit Command+Option+H and you will hide all other applications and their windows instantly, leaving you with only the current application and it’s windows visible. Heads up to SimpleSynthesis for the maximize shortcut idea 4: Hide All Other Apps Windows – Command+Option+H Now you can hit Control+Command+= (or whatever else) to instantly zoom and maximize the current window, nice!

Enter “Zoom” into the “Menu Title” section and then click into the Keyboard Shortcut box to define your keyboard shortcut (Control+Command+= is set in the example).

Choose “Keyboard Shortcuts”, then go to “Application Shortcuts” and click + to create a new shortcut.

Go to System Preferences and “Keyboard”.

Tired of clicking the green button to increase the size of the current window? Set a keyboard shortcut for that instead! You’ll be making your own keyboard shortcut for this one since it isn’t set by default, but what a handy keystroke it becomes once you configure it:

2: Minimize Current Window – Command+Mĭone with the current window for now but don’t want to close it out? Quickly minimize it instead with Command+M, it’ll be sent down into the Dock where you can retrieve it later. To be clear, we’re talking about the `/~ key, which is alongside the 1 key on a standard US qwerty keyboard.

Just flip through them all like a deck of cards and stop on the window you want. Considered a “ must know trick“, the next time you’re buried in a bunch of windows use this keystroke, it is so much faster than pulling down the Window menu and hunting around.

Much like you can Command+Tab your way through active applications, you can Command+Tilde your way through active windows in the current application. 1: Flip Between Windows in Current Application – Command+`

Mac maximize window shortcut