Amazing Mac Tips You've Never Used!

Snazzy Labs shows you the last Mac Tips video for a while. Experts and noobs alike can learn from this jam-packed video!

Snazzy Labs shows some great tips and tricks for macOS Catalina (and prior versions of Mac OS) in this Mac OS X tips video. Keyboard shortcuts, navigation gestures, window management, assistive browser features, and more! Just because we're out of Mac Tips doesn't mean this isn't going to be the last mac video forever. Expect future videos on my favorite apps and modifications you can make to macOS to meet your workflow needs.

[Ashanmaril]

These videos are always a list of things I would find incredibly useful but will inevitably forget as soon as the video ends

[EricRosenfield]

Me: has a Mac for 30 years
Snazzy: Most Mac users probably know this
Me: did not know that

[MatthiasKleine]

6:55 I drag and drop the file directly on the „choose file“ button instead of opening the dialog first

[AlexEgiyan]

OMG the spotlight Command R is what I've been searching for years

[DryRoastedLemon]

2:01 - In regards to window management: you can also hold down the Option key while hovering over the maximize button. That reveals options that allow you to snap a window to the left or the right without it switching to the iPadOS-esque full screen mode. I much prefer this over the very stiff feeling iPadOS method.

Might be a Catalina thing. I don’t know.

[Trippy-Trains]

7:00 As a new Mac user coming from Windows, you just gave me 5 more years of lifetime with this trick.

[RafaelUnplugged]

Started soft with the first two then went hard. Haha. The file drag for the path is so genius one of my favorite.

If you click a volume on / desktop finder it'll open a new window. If you command-double click another it'll open the volume in a new tab so no new window.

[dane.dagreat]

I’m not going to lie, I have been a Mac user for almost 20 years and 80% of these tips I’m seeing for the first time 🤦🏽‍♂️

[YosiOren]

Hover over the window zoom button to snap left or right but hold the options key will get the same but not full screen ipad mode. Also double click title bar to extend window top to bottom.

[habeebweeb]

2:30 If you hold option you also get the option to resize the window to half the screen instead of it being a pseudo fullscreen type thing. I'm real glad mac finally has this natively but it would be a lot better if it were a lot easier to access like how windows does it.

[wambman]

Snazzy, you are the only youtuber out there that gives actual tips & tricks. Loved all of those videos. The hot corners tip just blew me away.
Here are some of my tips from over the years:
- in every file select prompt, press cmd + D to go to your Desktop. Easy for quickly navigating to that single-purpose screenshot you just made.
- in Terminal, enter defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect -string suck to activate the "Suck" minimize effect.
- in the Dock preferences, set "Prefer tabs when opening documents" to "Always". Work those tabs!
- Spotlight sucks. Download Alfred. Set cmd+space as your Alfred shortcut. Forget about Spotlight forever.
- Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Keyboard and set a shortcut for "Move focus to the menu bar" (i like to use cmd + alt + space). This will allow you to navigate the menu bar with keystrokes, which is wayyyy faster than moving your mouse over there and going over all the menu items. Also, makes you look like a magician.
- Speaking of menus, toggling alt with a menu open will show you alt-ernative shortcuts.
- in Finder, when in List View, press cmd+J. This will allow you to make the icons in your list bigger, which I find to be more orderly.
- you probably knew you can alt-click the green button on any window. Works on the new drop-down menu as well. Full screen sucks, we all know it.
- cmd + Tab for the app switcher. Press Q while still holding down cmd to quit the selected app. Quickly quit apps you dont need.
That's all I can think of right now.

[stefan-xg]

7:06 you can literally drag the file you want into the "choose file" area on windows. Works on most websites.

[craighart]

6:38 Actually if you want to upload something in browser, you can just simply drag the file on "Choose File" button, works both on macOS and Windows.

[warpigroadkill]

I use spectacle for window management. It’s awesome for dual screens and heavy window work. I use hot corners to lock my display.

[DeanHerbertMooCow]

- cmd-enter works in spotlight too for opening in finder!
- you can drag files into the "choose files" button in all browsers on both macOS and windows!

[Contreramanjaro]

These Mac tips videos remind me of my first semester in college where everyone had a new Mac and shared shortcuts like they were secrets.

[sideshowlol]

Great tips, Quinn, Thank you. One thing: Re what you say @ 9:35, I always use command-backspace whenever I need to send files to the trash. Isn't it command-option-backspace to get the warning dialog and option to immediately delete? Also, when you are command-tabbing to switch between apps, changing to command-tilde, without releasing the command key, reverses the direction.

[web_dev_cz]

7:00 you can also drag the file over the "choose file" button and it works. on windows too

[york]

The switching between windows within same application tip is a life-saver! It drove me crazy even after years of using macOS after switching from Windows and Linux that the Dock doesn't show all the windows I opened. Thank you much for this!

[drgabi]

6:48
Snazzy, on Windows you can just CTRL C the file and in the Choose File window (or Open window) you just CTRL V and in the File Name section the full path to the file you copied will be there.