A few days ago, while the country was getting ready for the labor year, I became the proud owner of a brand new 2022 MacBook Air with an M2 chip. Impressions and experience of use will be later, and below I want to talk about a surprisingly convenient macOS add-on, for some reason, many do not meet.

About some and unknown about her.

So, as attention to active areas develops, when observing coverage, cover various applications? You need to set up the “Hot Corners” function!

Four turns – four actions

Where to find “Hot Corners”: Settings – Desktop & Dock – Hot Corners.

The persistent menu has four drop-down lists with actions that you can select to activate when you hover over one of the corners of the screen.

Sadly, it’s a shame to admit that I never used this feature in my evaluation of the 2020 MacBook Pro with M1 and touchbar. But when I switched to the new Air without the touch strip, I found myself with a shortcut problem with the icons of the found applications, which by default is detected when it is found on the Launchpad icon in the dock.

Ok, the icon is clear. This menu can be opened with the touch button and I get used to the specific version. There is no such button on the MacBook Air, nor is there a touch bar. You can customize the keyboard shortcut, but I will definitely forget them.

So we started looking for other options for calling the application menu and discovered Active calls. Now on my macbook, the application menu opens automatically when I move the cursor over the selection of the left corner of the area.


On the remaining three options, you can configure the launch to choose from:

🔹 Mission Control – Show thumbnails of all open applications and desktops.
🔹 Application windows – show all open windows of one application.
🔹 Desktop – show desktop, minimize all open applications
🔹 Arrival Center – Show all events from social networks, mail and nearby applications.
🔹 Short Note – Write a text note without opening the app
🔹 Lock screen – go to the welcome screen with a password
🔹 Start or send screensaver – start or stop the screensaver
🔹 Put monitor to sleep – screen off

Unfortunately, you cannot configure the launch of external programs. But in the next versions of macOS this will be confirmed, because the chip with active particles turns into big products.

So, if you do not use this useful feature yet, or did not know about it, set it up and enjoy it. Really convenient.






Source: Iphones RU

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