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[@bogxd]

Statistics show that scrolling back up to SMASH the like button increases your Mac's speed by 15.7%

[@CK113th121]

You need to scroll forward to scroll back on Mac

[@bogxd]

@@CK113th121 xddd n1

[@bred.]

@@CK113th121 you can switch that

[@will.gallegos]

Yay free M2 Chip! Thanks for the tip lol

[@pranavsubramaniyan5770]

I shall take your word for it

[@theabyssaldemon]

Bog: *uses macOS for 1 year* Me, a seasoned veteran that has used it for 10+ years: let's see what this guy learned Bog: *teaches me new trick I didn't know about in the first 50 seconds* Me: alright then

[@bogxd]

Haha best comment

[@hprxd]

SAME OMFG

[@inthevault9603]

This is part of the reason idk if I want to bother transitioning over to Mac. 🤷‍♀️

[@nekominorinya2569]

Do it, you wont regret it

[@MTech12990]

that is so true

[@miguelguthridge]

What disappoints me the most about MacOS is how all these awesome features are so difficult to find. There's nothing in the UI to indicate that they exist, which means that you can spend your entire life thinking that they don't.

[@breadone_]

honestly i think this is better than the alternative, which is when something like android gives you a billion popups telling you what gestures/actions you can do. thats the most annoying thing!

[@miguelguthridge]

@@breadone_ there are more than just two ways to do a UI. On Windows and Linux, keyboard shortcuts are shown next to the name of the action in a more dull text colour. Even a few apps that run on MacOS do this (such as VS Code). It's just Apple that hides any hint of complexity, thereby hiding the fact that MacOS is somewhat possible to use efficiently. Of course giving a billion pop-ups is a terrible idea, but to suggest that it's the only alternative to having a woeful lack of affordances is simply not true.

[@fvnnc0r3]

It’s a part of the Mac’s philosophy, that makes you like the device even more every time you discover something new and useful. It’s a feeling of something new every time.

[@breadone_]

@@miguelguthridge no? on macos there are also keyboard shortcuts listed, just in the menu bar, where youd go to look at the available actions anyway

[@GBugggg]

In the top bar you can see each action with the corresponding shortcut on the right side

[@drugaruka]

3:00 It isn't impossible, you can just use your up and down arrow keys to preview everything in the folder, without selecting all of them

[@aozora_2k]

IKR.... I was so confused about what exactly he wanted to say cuz it didn't make sense...

[@X99Zero]

What a noob 😂 only a pc user will complicate something so simple

[@yaseentwati7737]

Essentially in Mac OS, it follows the order of the files in the finder window, so if you go right right right and hit the edge, it cant go any further unless you press down and keep going However, in windows, you can just keep going right and it'll automatically move to the next row and keep going regardless of what view mode you are in ( list or icons ) so in conclusion in windows moving between the previews has nothing to do with the order/distribution of the files in the window, which makes much more sense IMO

[@mrbekong]

Technically!!! If you put them in list mode you can preview them all with just the down arrow. So many options so little time ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[@boobbbers]

Yup, you're using the arrow keys to merely select the item in Finder. Just act like the Preview window isn't there, the arrow keys are focused on the Finder window behind it, and when you highlight the next item, the Preview window will refresh to the new item.

[@GregoryDumont2]

Been using MacOS for years and yet I learned a few things. Thank you!

[@bogxd]

Great to hear! Thanks for watching

[@Daphoid]

I'm just happy to see people try. I used Windows from about 1993 through 2009. I wanted to try something different and switched to Mac at home, stayed there until 2021 and switched back to Windows due to hardware issues (on a 12 year old machine, that's not surprising). Now I will say, I work in IT. Computers have been my thing since I was under 10 years old. I've used most flavors of Windows, MacOS, Linux, BeOS, etc and enjoy it and am good at memorizing layouts/keyboard shortcuts - so I'm not your average user. That said, I definitely recommend exploring OS's. Plus if there's something you don't like, don't blame the OS or say it sucks right away just because its new. Find out how to solve your problem, and you may even discover you can tweak it or do something even more powerful with a utility/shortcut. This is why I love computers, I don't get frustrated by them often, I learn them! As to CTRL+TAB between tabs/windows, this is useful for those that don't use the mouse as much. Once you build up muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts, you'd be amazed what you can do without leaving the keyboard.

[@staskozak8118]

swap to mac and start using WAY more shortcuts just because start using trackpad

[@deadman1030]

I’ve been using macos since 2014 and some of this shortcuts shocked me. Thanks😊

[@bogxd]

Great to hear! Thanks for watching

[@uchithahettiarachchi7906]

Lol agreed! :v

[@kaitek666]

Tip: if you enable "reduced motion" in accessibility settings, switching between workspaces feels way snappier and responsive.

[@bunnybird12]

This. I only learned about this a few weeks ago and I’ve been using a Mac for years. Wish I knew about it earlier.

[@ebubeawachie]

This just makes things feel jerky and janky if you don’t have a top of the line mac. Would not recommend.

[@Warn0]

the downside is that most website (if implemented properly) using animations etc will just be static

[@kaitek666]

@@ebubeawachie it's fair I didn't know that. I got this m1 pro max from work and it works perfectly there

[@theodorlundqvist8174]

@@bunnybird12 its possible to completely remove animations with yabai

[@The-Drone-Hobbyist]

I've used Macs since 2015 but used a Windows laptop for about 1 1/2 years and upgrading to a MacBook Pro in 2022. After watching this brought me back to some stuff I ended up forgetting. Thanks for the video and keep up the great work

[@adfdageba]

To go to the parent directory of the current folder, use Cmd+Up, and to open a directory or file, use Cmd+Down. Combine this with typing the first letters of a file/folder name to select it, and right/left to preview folder contents, and you can navigate a directory tree pretty quickly.

[@marn200]

My favorite is still that when you have an option. Say in the menu bar, and youngish alt. It slightly changes the action. For example. If you hold alt while clicking reboot, sleep or shutdown, it removes the three dots and skips the dialog to make sure you really want to. If you hold alt for ‘about this mac’ it changes to systeminfo. On the right side of the menu bar when you hold alt and click WiFi!p, Bluetooth or sound, you’ll see extra info. For it comes in handy to hold alt and “WiFi settings” changes to “network settings”

[@rainmannoodles]

Here's another trick on the "Get Info" panels. In addition to these: - Cmd+I (open one panel per file) - Ctrl+Cmd+I (open a panel for the group of files) There's one more: - Cmd+Opt+I (*toggle* a panel that *updates dynamically* as you change the selection) This is the one I use most often.

[@arty5906]

What could this be useful for?

[@mikabreto]

@@arty5906 The finder doesn’t automatically show the size of folders (Cmd+J allows you to select the option to show folder sizes, but it only works on the current Finder window, not on all windows) but if you are in the process of selecting folders so you can find out how much space they collectively take up, this dynamic info window becomes useful in that manner.

[@Yeah_Buoy]

This video is great, thank you! I recently switched from Windows to Mac and your video's have helped!

[@AlexAegisOfficial]

2:05 you can access this using a gesture too, mission control is a four finger swipe up, this view you showed is a four finger swipe down, just like ctrl up and down

[@pran_dog8301]

Ty!! So much❤the first one is so useful!

[@paulmark992]

3:00 you can use up and down arrow in list view to preview things.

[@hellnawnaw]

In the touchpad settings you can also enable a 3-finger down gesture to do what cmd+down does and it also works when hovering on the icon in the dock!

[@frankyd701]

Woww i totally missed this option. Thanks!

[@danielsgrunge]

yes!

[@kimeiga]

I have used this for years. Invaluable when you have lots of browser windows

[@iewebdevdes]

You just got a new subscriber. I found a number of the shortcuts useful as I'm new to MacOS.

[@asadulmakki1]

Thank you for making this video It really helps alot

[@EddyGraphic]

0:37 BTW, there’s no need to hard press, when a window from the app is in focus you can swipe down with three fingers on the trackpad and all the windows from that app will appear.

[@rostikzubenko]

Four fingers

[@lexnastin9011]

You gotta enable that manually

[@edgarlz]

Yup, if anyone is looking it's on Trackpad gestures > more gestures > App exposé

[@yoyoitsme]

going to get a new macbook soon. since I haven't used a mac for couple of years, I certainly needed this refresher. thanks for that.

[@bogxd]

Ayee thanks for watching

[@KalpeshPatel78]

@3:11 you can use the up and down key to see the images in preview mode if the Finder is in list mode. You can hover your cursor over the green expand button on the top left of any finder / safari window and it will give you an option for split screen view. Very very handy on a larger screen to do multiple tasks.

[@sangeloo]

5:00 You can also right-click (or control click) on the name of the folder in the window bar, it will open up a context menu which shows all parent folders. all in all, great video. as a mac user for a while I was blown away by the first tip already haha

[@bogxd]

Thank you for watching

[@mvelectronique]

I always use cmd + up and down arrow to navigate through folders, which is different from the previous/next icons

[@sangeloo]

@@mvelectronique yup, that's also a thing i think you could also open folders and files with Cmd+O

[@kp_kovilakam]

Thanks for the tips, bro!

[@bogxd]

Cheers! Thx for watching

[@BorislavMitsov]

This is a nice video! Helpful!

[@carlsouthern]

As someone who uses Sidecar every day, the Option+Brightness shortcut is SO HELPFUL!!!

[@icecell]

Been using osx for more than 10 years and I still learned new things here. That remove background part - goddamn!

[@msvc23]

Men your tips have been a lot more useful that other videos that I’ve seen. Since the first one! Thank you

[@bogxd]

Happy to hear that! Thank you for watching

[@amrtuliemat8115]

Man, you are a life saver. I have been using mac for a year and half, yet I did not know most of them THX!

[@bogxd]

Ayeeee, thanks for watching

[@pjotrh]

In the finder, command click on the folder title next to the prev/next, and it will show a dropdown menu to navigate to any of the ancestor folders. This also works in most apple documentbased applications.

[@lukaaass]

"Single Info Menu" the most importing thing I wanted ever to know! Subscribed!!!

[@JulesStoop]

3:09 in list view you can just press arrow up and down to toggle between items in quick view.

[@vibonacci]

Love how they call a File browsing tool the 'FInder'. Apple is really creative with naming. Just like the 'dynamic island'.

[@Ferrichrome]

To be fair, Finder came first, windows explorer came after that

[@rahbor]

your tips are nice, thank you !

[@bogxd]

Cheers! Thanks for watching

[@JTech22]

Thanks for the tips, many of these I never knew.

[@bogxd]

Ayee thanks for watching

[@ajayshub7060]

Thanks for the tips brother, I really liked the video

[@bogxd]

Ayee thanks for watching

[@dilshadmatkulov3318]

00:20 another tip: you can also hard press on the closed apps, it will show all recent files from this app

[@manansharma3889]

As a mac user for more than 2 years now i did not know many tricks u just showed in this vid. Keep up the good work.😄

[@bogxd]

Thanks, will do!

[@nniklask]

for the preview in the list view in finder, you can just select one and press space and then use the up and down arrow key to go through all of them

[@ummtulip]

in settings , gestures u can enable that you tap the trackpad and it responds instead of hard tapping

[@LostProphet900]

OMG. You make the perfect Videos for MacOS Beginners. Thats all we need.

[@bogxd]

I'm glad you like them!

[@ohmygust5120]

3:00 it works for up and down arrows if it's a list view

[@chevon5707]

I’ve been using macs professionally for over 20 years and still learned a bunch of tips for this vid. Good job!

[@bogxd]

Thank you for watching

[@tsalVlog]

I've been a macOS X user for years, but before that I was a mac classic user for OS 6, 7 and 8; I learned a couple of things. well done!

[@flottenheimer]

I've used MacOS for 25 years. And I learned (and rediscovered) some nice stuff from this. Control+Down arrow - can't believe I didn't know that. Thanks a lot Bog.

[@bogxd]

Cheers! Happy to hear that

[@ryankov]

Excellent tips, good job

[@bogxd]

Thank you for watching

[@GreeKing83]

You can also use the track pad if you have multiple windows open, and this works on both Apple and Windows laptops. Take your three fingers and swipe up. At the same time, (not sure if this works on Apple) if you leave your three fingers on the trackpad and swipe left to right, you can select what window you want to use.

[@abhishtsingh6073]

This was super helpful!!

[@bogxd]

Nice! Thank you for watching

[@Buildermaster07]

Great video thanks !

[@damirusiriwardana3609]

I liked the video for the tips. I subscribed for the humour. Love the content!

[@bogxd]

Awesome, thank you!

[@nikabhallu]

some of the trick i know but i loved this video 🥰 very creative presentation buddy

[@bogxd]

Ayee thanks! 👍

[@jaimeoviedo]

So helpful. Thanks.

[@bogxd]

Glad u think so! Thx for watching

[@gilbster]

That hard press trick is cool, I never knew about it

[@CorentinHarbelot]

Most useful video I’ve seen for a while 🎉

[@bogxd]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching

[@JR-mk6ow]

I've been using MacOS for work for 2 years. The large amount of shortcuts is nice but you can redefine most of them to your liking. I thought would talk about the Keychain and other helpful stuff

[@nasseralsharif]

Very useful tips. thxx❤

[@AdamHansen95]

@4:25 you might not be able to hold shift and select all those images until they're in list view. However, when they are in thumbnail view (or whatever mode they're in right now), you can hold shift while drawing multiple boxes over several items and it'll stay selected

[@MrNicePotato]

cmd+A will select everything. Works for text too.

[@inThis964]

0:58 this was eye-opening for me. I've been an avid Mac-user for 10 years and I didn't know. I've even used this feature accidentally with Mission Control but didn't get behind this. This way you can also open the settings of keyboard and sound with the respective keys. By the way also try clicking items in the menu bar while holding option/alt. For some it shows more information/options.

[@wackyp]

You learned a lot in one year!

[@Itswiwo]

You're funny! Grazie for all tips I love them

[@ronny-andrebendiksen4137]

Been using Mac for 17 years, I actually learned a couple of tricks I didn't know about! Thanks :)

[@bogxd]

Ayee thank you for watching

[@eduardwarkentinart]

This is the big issue with MacOS. A lot of great functions are hidden behind shortcuts. Which is great if you know them. But for most people it's inaccessible for 17 years. ;)

[@tsuriranpu]

At 5:20 you could also just drag the disk to the bin. It automatically ejects the disk.

[@GameoverUK-YouTube]

Great video. I feel that its a bit stupid from Apple that they don't allow you to do right click properties on a selection of files to see all the size at once and instead have to use a shortcut.

[@kroechtersau]

Awesome Tipps!!!!

[@bogxd]

Thank you ❤️

[@TimelyAdventure]

Thanks for the tips

[@bogxd]

Thank you for watching

[@theweirdsquid]

Note that command shift 5 has much more precise screenshot controls, and also allows you to do screen recording

[@basseyotudor]

Thinking of getting the M2 MB Air and this is definitely helpful since I will be switching from a Windows laptop.

[@bogxd]

Cheers! thanks for watching

[@janam.5856]

Dude, this is the best and most useful MacOS video I have ever seen. I’m using macOS since 2015, and literally just new a single one. Bless you

[@Damjes]

You don't need to select images in list view. Just use up/down. Preview follows focused icon, so if You have grid, You can use four arrows to go on grid and preview will follow along.

[@Damjes]

Also, learn, how Command+Shift+3 and +5 works

[@mcmudkipp]

These are some pretty good tips for just about any desktop OS. Many of these features are found on Windows and on Linux Mint respectively. (Tho different shortcuts ofc)

[@andrebrait]

On many of those OSes, they aren't even shortcuts, or are promptly displayed to the user. The point of the video is exactly how many of those things are extremely cryptic on macOS.

[@mcmudkipp]

@@andrebrait What's your point? That all OSes have cryptic things? All I'm saying is I tried a few of em out and turns out they aren't all MacOS specific

[@vandamme211]

You actually can go between images and quick look in the folder if you youbuse down and up keys. Which is logical where files are stacked vertically

[@ali.almahbashi]

best video ever .. thank you so much

[@bogxd]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching

[@pe_w]

that remove background trick... dawg ur a real one. i've been using macOS since 2021 and i've never knew any of these things

[@bogxd]

Thanks dawg

[@christophaigner8260]

I came across your video by chance and after watching it, I was reminded why I never really enjoyed using Mac OS - it's just too complicated for my liking. I appreciate your honest review and the tips you shared, but I also had a similar experience with the mouse vs. trackpad use. It can be frustrating to have to switch back and forth between the two and I wish there was a more seamless experience.

[@Eeveewashere]

Indescribable is how I'd describe MacOS. A command button, a control button and an option button. I know they're not buttons, they're keys. Coming from Windows, it's Greek to me. And then there's ChromeOS. I'm definitely a novice but why do we need a launcher button? I just want my CAPS Lock button back.

[@mikabreto]

Like, I don’t know, maybe if you could *_touch_* the screen, like you can on most other computing devices nowadays. I don’t get what you mean by complicated. Red button in top left corner of window closes window. Green button expands window to full screen. Anything more useful requires learning a few shortcuts, or just print them , cut them out and attach the clipping to the top of your keyboard. I’ve done this for years to help me remember my keyboard shortcuts. There are plenty of them for each app you use, and plenty of folks who have made cheat sheets for them that you can print.

[@musiccer7446]

It’s not complicated, only if you want specific shortcuts. MacOS works much smoother than windows in my experience

[@Samzter1925]

COOL VIDEO! THESE LITTLE LEARNINGS IS A I ABSOLUTELY NEED AS A WINDOWS POWER USER TRANSITIONING INTO MAC OS! THANKS! GOTTA KEEP MY MUSCLE MEMORY RENEWED LOL!

[@itsTiagoSilva]

I really like this video and there are some interesting tips here

[@bogxd]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching

[@mrx6555]

This is the first Video with REAL Tips and Tricks. Thanks!

[@bogxd]

Glad it was helpful! Ty for watching

[@karmaduq]

Some things are a bit off here. Right click dock items to access other windows because not everyone has a 3d trackpad. Ctrl-[shift-]tab cycles tabs the same as a web browser. What they're calling mission control here is just one of the exposé behaviors, one of which shows you all windows and another shows only the active application's. Mission control proper is an everything thing, virtual desktops, widgets, and all. Forward delete is incredibly useful. Quick look is a floating layer that doesn't steal focus, and when using it in a vertical list view you're still just moving your selection, not paging, and pressing left or right isn't expected to do anything. If you're wanting aggregate info use the inspector with option, which also lets you avoid having to open and close info windows when checking many individual files, it will just update. Command-right/left will also expand/collapse, and adding option will expand/collapse nested items. Back and forward shortcuts aren't "useless" because acquiring a small target with the mouse almost always takes longer, and the square brackets are reminiscent of tool size control in Adobe software. Control is said instead of command in at least one spot. Command-shift-3 will take the whole screen, -4 is crosshair selection, and pressing space in crosshair mode will highlight only one window that you can capture by clicking it, shadow transparency intact. Command-down will open something, -up will open its parent, adding option will do the same in separate window processes, opening a new one and closing where you came from (a holdover from Classic's "spatial" Finder where every folder's window is its own space that remembers how it was left, there was no back/forward). Many of these things are learnable by paying attention to menu items, and holding modifiers will update them live. Get familiar with column view. Give it another year and quit riding control, sit the side of that thumb on command/option.

[@KiRealSEO]

Mate you gave me another step in joining the MacOs (and Apple ecosystem) army. Thank you! the video is really cool

[@simulcop]

try option click the list of resolutions after option+brightness... you can then show all resolutions and take full advantage of the 14" MBP screen.

[@jathinpandit9353]

When I used to use the Mac OS 9 they had that small tab up top next to the clock in the taskbar (I used to call that the finder). You could have seen what windows were open by clicking that tab

[@imtotallyjustin]

Wow, Mac user for over a year and I didn't know the majority of these! Thanks!

[@bogxd]

Ayee thank you for watching

[@PythonPlusPlus]

I’ve been using Mac OS since it was still named after Cats. I didn’t know most of the things in this list. Thank You

[@bogxd]

Uu nice, thank you for watching

[@joecan]

all of this seems really intuitive

[@alessiasimonne2631]

Wow, awesome video!

[@bogxd]

Thanks!

[@vincentsd79]

been using a mac for over 4+ years and I didn't know the first 2 tricks. tysm

[@bogxd]

Cheers! Thank you for watching

[@cdbaxul4726]

Great video, learned a bunch of new shortcuts, thanks! Also what is that skin on the lid of your Macbook please?

[@bogxd]

Thanks! That's the Solstice skin from Dbrand

[@SebastianD334]

two things: 1. you didn’t mention cmd+space (spotlight search) it’s super useful and can even be used to calculate stuff 2. my favorite view in finder is the columns, as it gives you a good understanding of the folder structure

[@NOTONtechsx]

Why use Spotlight when you have Raycast/Alfred?

[@thedavidj1996]

I endorse both of these. I use spotlight to launch apps, find files, and search the web. And I’ve always used column view in finder. Way more intuitive than a standard page view.

[@whengrapespop5728]

Yeah, but everybody knows about those. Not everybody knows about the things he showed in the video.

[@BloodyHaemorrhoids83]

Pro-er tip for #1, Raycast is to Spotlight like Spotlight is to Windows Search. Amazing app.

[@Mainyehc]

This has since become redundant because new Apple keyboards now come with a dedicated Spotlight key, but using it as a calculator is a nifty trick I’ve been using since 2004 and obviously still works. ;) Also, much like in the iPhone Search box, you can also use it to convert units (measurement units, temperature, currency, etc.) in the same fashion. Type whatever value and abbreviation, and boom, the Spotlight results box just spits out a few equivalent values in other popular units.

[@Schatzie301]

I’ve been a Mac user all my adult life and did not know some of these commands so thanks very much for this video.

[@bogxd]

Cheers! Thx for watching!

[@OtavioFesoares]

Been a Windows user since 1999. Moved to MacOS in 2024, and this video’s helped me a lot.

[@floral1474]

For the screenshotting, hold CTRL while taking the screenshot so it automatically gets saved to the clipboard

[@ion4798]

3:09 On windows if u open an image it will auto detect all pictures in that folder, and you can use arrow keys to navigate trought all them... easy

[@danielsgrunge]

Cmd + shift + 3 takes a screenshot of the whole page, useful as well, I use either that or the full tool (cmd + shift + 5 when I want some espefic part of it) The touchpad settings hides so many macOS gems Literally lifechanging Like Exposé (that ctrl + down thing) is just the reverse of mission control gesture

[@GDoggProductions]

great stuff!!! learned a thing or two that's for sure 😅

[@ihaveacoolhat1]

Now my Dell XPS 13 has got me used to modern hardware stuff like premium build materials, usb-c everything, great screen and backlit keyboard, I'd be interested in going back to a macbook again.

[@OrdinaryCritic]

Still learning new things about MacOS everyday. I just gotta never gonna give up. ❤

[@donaldolan]

To Select different items together not in a row, use Command Click in Finder NOT Shift Click! 4:23 And to select All you use Command A

[@danieloyegade7744]

When you're looking at images in the list view you cycle through them with the up and down arrows, not left to right

[@telagraf]

i've only used MacOS and didn't know many of these things, thank you!

[@deypritam]

Savage tips💥

[@bogxd]

Thanks! 👌