5 Basic Mac Techniques Every Mac User Should Know

macmost.com/e-2333 To get the most from your Mac, every Mac user should know about context menus, the app switcher, mission control and more. Even if you already know these basic techniques, there are some tips for using each one.
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[@geebee2276]

I use all of these on a daily basis. For productivity, these add so much speed to my workflow. I take all these for granted and it’s not until watching this, do I realise the value these simple, yet effective features have. Nice video. You have a very calm, clear and concise why of explaining. Thank you!

[@remingtonnathaniel6730]

i guess im asking the wrong place but does anybody know of a tool to log back into an instagram account..? I somehow lost my password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me!

[@MrLuigi-oi7gm]

Hi Gary! I teach physics for a living. Due to the pandemic, all that teaching has been online. As much as all my students are quite bright, some are being held back simply because of relatively weak computer skills. For these students, I have started to share your videos and I want you to know how much it has helped them. Happy Holidays and continue the great work!!!

[@wellspj2002]

I'm new to Apple and am really enjoying your video clips. Thank You.

[@binface9]

I've had a Mac for 5 years and I didn't understand the utility of mission control, until know. Gamechanger. Thank you

[@ralphhenson3192]

Thank you for all your info. I've used Macs since the 1980's and I still learn stuff from you each time.

[@justinodelvalle6142]

I don't have enough words to say Thanks. Your videos are simple and easy to understand. I feel very comfortable using my iMac because of your videos. Thanks Gary. MacMost University. 🎓

[@gregodify]

Thank you for saying "control click" not "right click". So many Mac people still us Windows terminology. Also, I didn't know that you could bring up the context menu with a two-finger click. Thanks.

[@karenbailey1475]

Your video have been crucial for my ability to use my Mac as a new Mac user.

[@leej8070]

I learn so very much from you Gary! Thank you!

[@reederang]

Wow Gary, you are a wonderful teacher and thank you for doing what you’re doing... I’m a new Mac user and your videos have helped me immensely!

[@TJDawgs72]

I am a brand new Mac OS user…I finally made the jump after all of these years. This was extremely helpful. Looking forward to some of your other videos to learn these cool little shortcuts and tricks.

[@PeteJohnsMusic]

New to MacOS and this was recommended to me by one of my viewers. Excellent stuff!

[@daw1st]

Thanks to your efforts, it's up to you a became a professional in Mac in no time

[@The-Perfect1]

Simply the best. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@The-Perfect1]

🏆

[@peerlessboilers7492]

Gary my friend, you’re awesome. No bs. Just pure information in a simple straightforward way. You’re one of my favorite Tubers.

[@vaidy2000]

Have been watching all your tutorials for a long time. Great job. congrats.

[@sriramprakashravichandran5248]

Amazing tips Gary. As always I want to thank you for helping us.

[@invcark]

Marvelous! It’s going to help me enormously. You are a Genius! 🎉

[@globalvisionlive3604]

Gary, over the last year, I've found myself coming back to your Channel often. I'm a 30+ year Apple fan, using almost every Device they make, and I'm ALWAYS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED, at the simplest things to do, that you've so EASILY DISPLAYED...THANKS

[@Ahmedkhan8802]

Your videos are HIGHLY informative and useful, particularly to this novice. You know your stuff, at a level I won't ever be able to achieve. Please keep these videos coming!

[@megapangolin1093]

Help, Gary, I have been using two Macs for 7 years and I am still learning all sorts of useful stuff from your videos. THanks a lot for this, never underestimate what we dont know about how a Mac works!!

[@GC987]

Excellent ! Thanks.

[@pressrepeat2000]

Super useful as always.

[@normaholmes1618]

Thanks Gary. Your videos are excellent.

[@Mudge07]

Straight to the point advice and demonstrations means this Channel will greatly assist me in enjoying my desktop and what I want to achieve with it as tool for productivity, enjoyment and fulfilment. As a long time Win user I came here to get the necessary knowledge to boost my new Mac skills; which includes moving away from right-clicking and F3 shift keystrokes.

[@andykhouloussy]

Your videos always help me alot. Keep it up!

[@Oldnose63]

Again learned a lot. I need this so much and you’re such a great tutor. Keep them coming 😊

[@peterbaader334]

Extremely useful tips and tricks! Well done!!

[@eloquill3187]

sober and no-nonsense approach to familiarizing ourselves with our tools. thank you.

[@aim.1]

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!

[@mandihaase2744]

Your videos are amazing. Thank you so much for this content!

[@Heartford]

Very helpful!

[@andypitz1]

Very useful and well-presented as usual. Thanks for the info!

[@DaveDewald]

Thanks again, Gary. Learn something new with every video you give us. And, you are a PHOTOGRAPHER - nice shots!

[@macmost]

Thanks. Just amateur. Those are two nice shots that can be glimpsed in this video. One from a recent local backpacking trip, and the other was from my visit to Hawaii last year.

[@loisskiathitis8926]

Thank you!

[@nitramluap]

I love using the trackpad gesture (3 finger swipe) for viewing different desktops as you can partially swipe to 'peak' and then go back.

[@LetsTravelThisYear]

Very helpful.. Thanks.

[@busterj11776]

Many thanks...much needed

[@ramonagaibor1898]

Wow tha was easy to understand thank you for your help!

[@ak49mitchell]

Been using mac almost 10 years - wow, learned space bar function is awesome!!

[@bikeman5]

as an old mac user it is a little harder to break old habits, so many cool features in our macs, some i wish i learned long ago, and then i could have learned thru the changes and OS's for a smoother transition, school teacher comment was the coolest i think, these videos i can see helping them lots. i am creating another you tube folder for saved videos to break down my learning into smaller segments and categories.

[@albeerahman]

Man I feel stupid. I have been using a Mac for over 2 years and then this man comes and teaches me a whole world of quality of life techniques I never knew. Keep up the good work.

[@LishaArlene]

Thank you 👍🏼

[@hollyhamilton2560]

I just discovered your KZbin channel and find it so useful. Thank you!

[@real45x63]

I appreciate your knowledge, I've watched you for many years.

[@gpellmind]

Hi Gary. Another one I think should be on this list is "Show Desktop". It's the quick solution to the frustrating situation with lots of apps/windows open when you need to reach for something on the desktop.

[@KJ99otis]

I’d like to know how to do this!

[@gpellmind]

@@KJ99otis In System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control, select a key for Show Desktop, usually one of the "F" keys.

[@psoon04286]

I’ve been using Mac for 10 years and never knew what Mission Control was for. Thanks for the enlightenment 👍😊

[@AppFanUAE]

Amazing thanks

[@ranadas9914]

Great job sir

[@FLYBOY123456789]

Great tips - much thanks...straight forward and to the point...thanks. How about Mail organization and calendar?

[@Win-Naing]

Hi Gary, nice info even for a mac user for 20+ years. wish your channel grow soon.

[@FinVentures_n_Journeys]

very useful video 🤠

[@calvinwalker4654]

The first one is basically what most Windows users would call a right click. I guess some new users might not know about this. I've used Macs for a long time and I knew about mission control but didn't really know how to use it or what it was for. Thanks for the tip and I definitely will be using this in the future.

[@oakandiron_]

The Legend! 🤝👏

[@56Spookdog]

I do most of my things on an iPad would love to see things like this for them.

[@RamMohammadJosephKaur]

I've used my Macbook for 4 years and didn’t know Cmd H and Control Right/left for switching desktops . Thanks!

[@fmphotooffice5513]

Cmd/Ctl tab goes waaaay back to the earliest GUIs... Essential to know and use...

[@hollyhamilton2560]

I like the tips about desktops

[@blademanu7]

Cool 😎👍

[@ADayInAGirlsHead]

Wow! THANK you! LOL, I’ve been going crazy thinking why didn’t apple do this stuff! Awesome!

[@earlcox5896]

Hi Gary I was wondering if you could point me to a way to transfer files from my pc windows 7 to my new mac air m1. I am new to the mac os running Big Sur. Thanks be safe

[@psoon04286]

I have a question which you may have already touched on in another video. When adding a markup text, I sometimes have difficulty re-positioning the text. It’s seems to work differently on an IOS device. Have you covered this in another video?

[@JESK55]

Gary the Great!!!

[@AaronAbstract]

Gold

[@bigislerebroker6800]

great tips...I couldn't get the space bar to do anything (quick look vs. preview?) I'm confused : doesn't do anything watching your video except pause/play....Mission Control & multiple desktops I knew about via trackpad(3 fingers), but I guess I need some practice to get these all to work, or perhaps they don't work all the time?? depending on what app Im in? why are multiple desktops important? if memory use isn't an issue, is it not OK to have everything we're working on all on the same desktop?

[@duanewilson3941]

Hey Gary, just got my new Mac mini m1 up and running. I have this display with it, LG 32UN880-B 32" UltraFine Display Ergo UHD 4K IPS Display. I am able to connect with the hdmi cable and port but not the thunderbolt ports ? The cable that came with the mini doesn't work and neither does the cable that came with the LG display. Any ideas?

[@nitramluap]

Also, Command-Shift-Tab will go backwards in the list of apps if it's faster than cycling through the whole list.

[@rruni9828]

If only I could remember HALF of things I learn from you Gary. Do you have a shortcuts chart available?

[@macmost]

I do. It I right on the front page of MacMost.com

[@rruni9828]

@@macmost - thank you so much, I never go to the website because I watch your videos daily on KZbin.

[@juneuhlig2685]

Thanks. This was helpful. I have a huge fear of clicking too much. years ago before Apple, I deleted a very important document, so I am very fearful of tool much clicking. Is there always a "savior" to mistakes?

[@HighwayRamos]

Buy an external drive and use it for Time Machine backups.

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

Given I'm a lifelong Mac user I knew all these, thought this could be useful for newcomers.

[@word67]

I don't know if I'm happy ( to learn vital techniques) or embarrassed (that I didn't know them for the last ten years.) Thanks either way.

[@PrKJTECH]

How to o move copy operation... bro

[@bobh9526]

When you have a bunch of apps open, control/tab goes through the icons left to right. If, after going partway to the right, you want to go back to the left again, click control/tilde (immediately above the tab key). I call it the tilde key, but I guess technically it is the reverse apostrophe key or whatever that tiny little thing my eyes can't see and I never use is. :-)

[@macmost]

Actually, Shift+Tab goes backwards in the App Switcher. Command+` will go through open windows for that app -- an in-app Window Switcher.

[@bobh9526]

​@@macmost My bad. I meant command/tilde will go backwards. At least it does on my machine. Shift+tab does nothing to change windows on my M1 mini. What am I doing wrong? It does move the cursor from link to link on a web page in Safari, or move the cursor highlight around in a Finder window. But it doesn't go through open windows.

[@macmost]

@@bobh9526 Yes, Command+Tab forward, Command+Shift+Tab backward, also Command+Tab followed by Command+` backward, as long as you don't lift up on the Command key.

[@lorensims4846]

I don't use the app switcher out of spite because that was a feature brought over from Windows the same way cmd-c, cmd-v, cmd-x, cmd-z, cmd-b, cmd-i and cmd-a went to Windows from Mac. I've been hiding apps ever since the feature was available in System 7 thirty years ago. Multiple desktops are something I first learned to appreciate in Linux and was delighted the functionality was included in Mac OS X.

[@michaelmurphy5444]

while using Safari and viewing some Yahoo selections, sometimes there iare many selections and.you have to click on many arrows to view all the selections. Is there any way to quickly go thru this document by a short cut by hitting only "like the right arrow ( doesn't work)" to quickly scan the document ? Thanks Mike

[@macmost]

Not sure what you mean. What part of Yahoo? Likely it would have to be Yahoo that would make their site easier to use.

[@michaelmurphy5444]

@@macmostThank you for responding, for instance I go to Yahoo and under a "stories for you" heading I'll open a story and instead of a fully readable story it turns into a slide show and instead of using my right arrow to bypass quickly I have to click on the arrow to get to the next slide it would be a lot quicker to just be able to make a keybd selection to get to the next slide but the slides make you go thru every slide one at a time! Thank for your quick answer ! There may be no answer but at least I tried I just want quickly peruse the show

[@kennethtalley4131]

Good to see u Garry do u still play basketball been year

[@macmost]

I think you have me mistaken for someone else.

[@KJ99otis]

Newbee question: why would I need multiple desktops? Thank you

[@Anickelsworth]

As Gary shared, you could consider them as different monitors. I use them to declutter my immediate window. Rather than closing or hiding apps, I can just switch desktops and all is like I left it. At work, I also set up different desktops for functional reasons: email on one, word processing or spreadsheet on another, code work on a third. My brain appreciates knowing the specific focus rather than having it all clustered in one desktop.

[@sergeya]

What technique would you suggest for dealing with multiple windows of the app?

[@macmost]

"Dealing" in what way? What are you trying to do?

[@sergeya]

​@@macmost switching between multiple windows of the app. F.e. Safari. F.e. I have several of them on one workspace and couple more on another. I have some other programs running as well. If I switch to and app on second workspace using Cmd-Tab then I am unable to switch back to Safari window on first workspace. Next Cmd-Tab switches me to the Safari window on current workspace. Right now I use program HyperSwitch which alleviates this a little bit. But I was always wondering what is the right way to handle this without using external apps.

[@DirectorWD40]

For some reason after all these years I still not use to using Mission Control.

[@juneuhlig2685]

Do you know why I can no longer drag a photo from my desktop to FB messenger?

[@randyranson84]

How do you utilize gifs, to see them and adjust sizes?

[@macmost]

In what context? Utilize them how?

[@randyranson84]

@@macmost When I use my spacebar to view, the gif does not operate, when I go to preview all it does is show the in-between steps, it doesn't run it, how can I run a gif easily within my Mac Pro?

[@macmost]

@@randyranson84 Drag and drop on to a web browser(Safari, etc)

[@randyranson84]

@@macmost Thanks!

[@tech-vf9ow]

is closing a window (x button) as good as hiding

[@macmost]

Two very different things. Hiding leaves the document/window open exactly as-is so you can get back to it easily. Closing will close the document/window and you'd need to open it again. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2esgJurr9Fpbs0

[@BURGO1979]

👏👍👍👍

[@williamconnell6541]

I have no idea what happened but all my contacts on my iPhone 6 have gone after i plugged it into my iMac Big Sur upgrade ..WTF !

[@thesunshinehome]

can you use time stamps please

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[@RickJones222]

Gary is perfect just as he is.