10 macOS Features I Use Daily - For Beginners and Beyond

10 macOS features that I use daily for macOS beginners or even intermediate users. If you are trying to learn macOS, and want to know of some of the most useful hidden features inside of it, then this video showcases 10 small tips and tricks built into macOS that you can use daily.

In the video we talk about the following macOS features:

0:55 - Open Launchpad with Hot Corners
1:45 - Quickly Shut Down Mac Computer
2:26 - Quickest Way To Copy Files in macOS
3:05 - Screenshot of a Specific Window
4:07 - Open Recent Document Quickly
4:50 - Super Quick Force Quit App
5:31 - Enable Status Bar in Safari
6:21 - Quickly Expand and Collapse Windows
6:53 - Reduce File Sizes in macOS
7:44 - Copy Subject Using macOS Photos
8:29 - Type Apple Symbol in Documents

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[shooKnFrst]

The one about showing the link is really nice to know! Thanks!

[teacherlutz]

Great Craig, and I thought I already knew everything. Huge thanks

[digitalmarketinghumans]

That Option + Click on App and then Force Quit is clutch! Never knew that! I always did it only keyboard way. Thank you, Craig!

[bryans]

Thanks Craig. I didn't know any of those Option key tricks and they're really handy.

[Shabbir-A.]

I am new to Mac and this video helped me a lot to do my work.

[Pablito]

would be great if you showed also the keyboard while you're using the commands.

[anandmalkari]

Thanks a lot to you for the video of inexpensive nvme. I bought an Acasis case 40gbps with WD black nvme recently. That's really awesome. Thanks again.

[ArthurPJohnson]

Thanks! I like to think I’m a Mac Maven, AND YET—all but one of your tips were new to me, and I know I’ll be using them.

[joelkomieter]

Thanks to your videos, I was able to get a 2020 MacBook Pro from Isellimac. It came clean and better than I even expected. Thank you again

[sewtritionistrdn]

I have the Apple Air M2 . Not all the features seem to work on the laptop like the shutdown.

[williameverets]

My 2013 iMac, when I click on  symbol System Pref and my screen does not have the same options and Thank you  but you see what you tough me

[LordAlucar]

option key tips are great especially when i never use them although i never find use for it atleast yet if i want to force close app just command q and if i want to close multiple ones with shift, as for copy or dublicating i usually just drag them if you hold the mice you can navigate though multiple folders and paste it where you want you can even go back if you went in wrong place, and another hold motion i love is click and hold by doing this you do one click 2 actions, first is open menu for links or w/e you look up to and second is when your mice is over lets say open new link just release mice all in one motion for me so i love it, screenshot tip is amazing i didn't knew thats, as for sefari tip i love it i had no clue about it, why is your apple loggo black xd? my is white , rest options are useless for me because i never use them or help my flow, what i could love to know is a shortcut to make full screen apps every time i need to press that button manually which is a pain or if i can make apps run full screen allways atleast specific apps, one more thing i could love to use is repeated view for video, to make a video play in a app in rotation when it ends to resume playing it again, now it just plays and when it ends it stays like that, i tried with vlc also and still the same im out of ideeas, and an photo view to see gifs also could help, what i do now to see gifs i look in previous and zoom it by pressing option and scrolling in, tips are allways welcome especially when im struggling to figure out the sistem. it is simple yes but very deep and detailed with hidden options, one more thing i forgot, is there no easy way to see in folder all pics without selecting and opening app? for example on windows you just had to open one pic even if the folder had multiple types it could see all, images, gifs, videos any just my using arrow key its not that i mind it but it is still abit frustrating having to select all of the content inside folder by mice or command a and then right click select open all with preview in my case if i do this then i can open all in one app, if i select open all it opens all of them individually, so what i do i separe all images gifs videos and if i have folder and image in same folder and select all i can not open preview, i need deselect folders to use preview same if it has a random gif or video or any data that preview does not run, all i do usually is select pictures that can be opened and i make new folder with them so i can next time open them somehow easyer not easy though alot of steps and prep to use and each time it needs to use 3 motions, select all, right click select specific open, what i want if posible is open one and i can see all inside that folder by arrow or moving scroll, if posible with different types of data inside folder, thanks.

[urdecisionisurs]

I am used to windows; what is the option key?