🎓 Mac Keycodes 101 The Shortcuts You Need to Know ⌨️

[@TheMacWhisperer]

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[@davemoore7417]

I thought I knew all the key codes from using Windows for years but yet again you blew me out of the water with your power tips. Thanks again Dylan. Amazing videos. 👍

[@TheMacWhisperer]

That's really just the bare basics of what I use. I have a four page sheet of all the short cuts I have... Glad I was able to help you out. Stay tuned for more lessons.

[@agermoune]

Hey Dylan - Glad I found your channel, can't get enough as a new comer from PC world, going thru your videos with a smile on my face answering all my questions in a such eloquent and direct presentation. Subscribed immediately and always waiting for the tip of the day. all I can say is THANK YOU and keep them coming please!

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Thank you for the kind words! I make these videos for people just like you! Also, make sure to tune in for my Thursday live broadcasts to get even more interaction and have your questions answered. Let me know what you need to learn, and I'll be happy to help you out!

[@fidoalca9]

Thanks!

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Thank you for the generous tip! 😊 And thanks for watching! 🎉

[@davidthorpe9492]

As new to Mac I’m loving the help Dillon keep up good work

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Welcome aboard! Glad you are finding them helpful. Make sure to let me know if there’s anything else you want to know. Also, my name is spelled Dylan…

[@CarlosSiu-p8j]

Thanks Dylan! Very good and helpful presentation.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Glad it was helpful! 😊 Thanks for watching! 📺

[@patrickpolen724]

Well done! Another great video!

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Thanks for watching! 😊 I'm glad you found it valuable. 💡 Any specific takeaway you'd like to share? 🤔

[@earlcox5896]

Thank you I am new to mac you’re the best teacher on the net. Blessings

[@TheMacWhisperer]

That's great to hear! Let me know what other Mac tips and tricks you want to learn next.

[@earlcox5896]

@@TheMacWhispererThanks again I lost my wife several months ago I bought this Mac to keep my mind going in the right direction and to write and to put our pictures together for my children and grand children. Feeling a bit lost. Blessings my friend.

[@surinderbhat6741]

Good info. Thanks.

[@brianguy937]

Great video succinct and useful

[@tonysilva2654]

Very useful info. And appreciate your brief, concise for format. The power tip was great!!!! Thanks👍🏽.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Awesome! Glad you got good value from it! Thanks for watching!

[@RonnieGreher]

Great review. I knew most, but not, all of these. The idea of holding a key then pressing the other is what I needed to hear. When using 3 keys simultaneously, I always try to hit all at the same time. Now I can relax. Thanks Dylan. As to the power tip, I recently learned that you can use the mouse to directly select an app rather than having to cycle through the list.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Yeah, learning NOT to try and hit them all together is a BIG lesson. And I like the mouse trick also... but I figured for the average user 3 levels of the Power Tip was plenty. It has also been mentioned that you can quit apps right from the App Switcher (which I also use frequently). Thanks for watching! I love it when POWER USERS check out my videos!!!

[@perrysrc]

Excellent video as you make it so easy to understand, thanks

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ramonagaibor1898]

Going forward I will use these techniques to make my PC experience easier, thank you for your help.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Glad to help!!!

[@simatbirch]

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[@EddyFreddyful]

Thanks. Power tip level 4 - command - SHIFT - tab will select the next app on the overlay going right to left. Same with command - SHIFT - tilde will cycle through the open windows in the opposite direction. Both are helpful if you overshoot where you want to go, you can just back up instead of going through them all again.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Absolutely true! Great addition… Thanks for watching.

[@rolfoehen5435]

Hi Dylan, I have to admit I have a huge pile in Notes and in Photos and I would love to clean it up. In the notes, I have x-1000 thoughts and essays or screenshots which I would like to tidy up, sort - but also delete unnecessary stuff. What is the best way to do this? 2. over the last 12 years I have stored well over 250,000 photos on my Apple iCloud (6TB)!!!! And this is simply getting too expensive. How can I download all the photos efficiently - even over a weekend or two - and store them on an external SSD? So keep collecting them locally...? Thank you for your lessons - they are absolutely great and as a Swiss, not knowing perfect English, I very much appreciate your top class and clear explanations! (You became my best English teacher!!!) ;-). Simply fantastic!!

[@rosgr63]

Great review, lots of useful info, nice to be reminded. Thank you!

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Thanks for watching!

[@EvertLoevering]

Dylan, Thanks for that Tab command. I always used the yellow button, because I dit not know that.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Yes, the Yellow (Minimize) button is frequently used to get things out of the way because most people don't know how to manage their windows properly... The Cmd+Tab sequence will save a billion hours a day.

[@vaidy2000]

Excellent explanation on key shortcuts. Very well asthetically explained. I learnt how to invoke Siri using keyboard shortcuts from your video. Thank you

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Glad it was helpful!

[@KenLee-v9b]

COMMAND-H is a big one--way to hide windows while keeping them open

[@mvraman9394]

Superb sir ❤

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Awesome, glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!

[@maryperry573]

Hi, I love the way you teach. I've just tried using the command +and- but it enlarges the whole thing not just the highlighted bit, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong?

[@TheMacWhisperer]

⌘ + works differently in different apps. Which app are you currently in? If you select something in Notes and use ⌘ +, it'll make things bigger or smaller. But if you are in Mail or Safari and use ⌘ +, it will increase the entire screen.

[@pattrson]

How about command +space bar+ the number 4 screen shot

[@AlignToDeliver]

Command + Tilde was a game changer

[@TheMacWhisperer]

I know... so helpful, right?

[@gAlbert23500]

Thanks for the review; didn't know that the [cmd+N] and [cmd + ~] were global keyboard commans - I was a little confused on [cmd + ~] vs [cmd + `] ... so I had a brief conversation with OpenAI and this was their response... On a Mac keyboard: Cmd + ~ : This shortcut triggers the Spotlight search [⌘ + Space bar according to [2]. The tilde (~) key is located next to the number 1 key. **Cmd + ** : This shortcut invokes the “Show Previous Window” function [2]. The backtick key (), also called the grave accent key, is located above the Tab key on your keyboard.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Glad the review helped! 😊 It’s easy to get confused with the tilde (~) and backtick () shortcuts. On a Mac, **Cmd + ~** is used to switch between open windows of the same app, while **Cmd + ** (the backtick) is for cycling through apps. If you’re into shortcuts, we cover a lot of them during our live broadcasts-join us sometime and bring any questions you have! 😊

[@mackellar829]

The mnemonic I use for PASTE is "V" for "VOILA" I'm so happy I can add ANYTHING to your plethora of knowledge.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Haha, I love that! "V" for VOILA-brilliant mnemonic! 😄 I’m always happy to learn from the community, so thanks for sharing that! If you have more tips or want to dive deeper into Mac shortcuts, feel free to join one of our weekly live broadcasts. We’d love to have you there! 🎉

[@rolfoehen5435]

A propos “instead of running through all windows again and close them individually...”. Is there a hot key to close all the apps together so that the Mac shuts down? Thank you! Rolf

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Sure, go to the Apple menu in the upper left-hand corner and click shut down or restart. It will close everything for you. Unless you leave the box check that says open windows back up when you restart… But don’t do that.

[@donbiagio1]

Hi Dylan. 👕🇮🇹😎 here. I really loved this one. Only you could present the “key codes” this way. So easy and beautifully explained. I really enjoyed that. Great job again. P. S. : Would you know of or recommend an easy and not expensive College App for pictures? Thank you. Stay safe Sincerely your 👕😎🇮🇹❤️ ( Winnipeg is currently in a heatwave) Love it. 😎👕

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Turbo Collage is a great app. Simple and affordable. Get it on the Mac App Store. There's a free lite version and a full version. The full version is a one-time price!

[@AlanLarkin5063]

Are there any shortcuts for shutdown or restarting the computer?

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Pressing the power button will prompt a shutdown or restart... holding the power button down will turn it off.

[@rrosen179]

Is there an equivalent key on the iPad keyboard for the command key?

[@cifrancgx]

If you are just using an iPad by itself (and not an accessory keyboard like a Magic Keyboard) there is no Command Key. You don't need one on the iPad because the iPad uses a touch interface. So if you want to cut, copy, paste text for example, you just double tap the first word of the text you want and drag to highlight the text, and when you release your finger from the screen you will get a menu with cut, copy, paste and other options. Also, when you select text from the screen on the top left of the iPad's virtual keyboard you will see icons for cut, copy and paste that you can also use. If you were to buy the Apple Magic keyboard those do have the Command, Option, Ctrl and Globe modifier keys which allows you to cut copy and paste just like on a Mac.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

All of this is true and completely accurate. ✅ Thank you for posting it! 😊 If you are using a keyboard case or even a Bluetooth keyboard, you can utilize the command key on the iPad. However, you cannot use the command key on the iPad natively if you don't have a keyboard. ⌨️

[@gregstory5784]

Command t opens new Chrome tab … Command w closes the current Chrome tab … Command < navs to previous browser page in Chrome … Command > forwards to page you just went back from. Hope I got this right.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

I don't use Chrome; I use Safari. However, I believe the same (or similar) shortcuts work on Chrome. I avoid Chrome unless absolutely necessary. 🚫💻

[@davidgeren8252]

I know this will sound pedantic, but ... key codes are numerical representations of the pressed key used by the OS to determine what you typed and in scripts to send key presses to the OS. For example, 49 is the space key and 39 is the double quote. Better terms are keyboard shortcuts (Apple's preferred term), key combo, combinations, hotkey, and similar. This might be important for some because any search for more shortcuts using "keycodes" may not yield desired results. Just sayin'.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Thank you... You are right on the money.

[@Yegor.Shuvayev]

that’s the reason i clicked it

[@JasonJosephPhotographyNewYork]

Opt+CMD+Space (on either side of the keyboard) opens Finder.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Great tip! Thanks for that! 🎉

[@davidchafin4028]

In Word, what is the Mac keyboard command to jump to the beginning or end of a document?

[@TheMacWhisperer]

⌘+fn + ← (left arrow) = Beginning of document ⌘+fn + → (right arrow) = End of document

[@davidgeren8252]

A little easier: ⌘↑ | ⌘↓

[@chao.m]

Is there a keyboard shortcut equivalent to the Windows V in Windows to bring up all the items in my clipboard?

[@TheMacWhisperer]

So, unfortunately, on Mac the clipboard only holds one item at a time. I use a third-party app called Paste to give it greater functionality... but it's not built-in on the Mac.

[@chao.m]

@@TheMacWhisperer Thank you very much for your answer

[@mjbono-3361]

Where is the key code chart. I want to print. Thanks.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Hey @mjbono-3361! Thanks for watching the video. 😊 If you’d like the Mac Keycode Chart to print, just shoot an email to [e-mail], and we’ll send it right over to you! If you have any other questions or want more tips, feel free to join us during one of our weekly live broadcasts. Hope that helps!

[@gareyford9071]

One last thing with your power tip that you didn't mention. When you bring up the programs, you can toggle "Q" and close multiple programs one after another.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

So true... but I thought 3 separate tips on top of each other was enough... I use the ⌘ + Q all the time from the app switcher! Thanks for mentioning it fellow POWER USER!!

[@gareyford9071]

@@TheMacWhisperer you're really becoming my favorite mac guy

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Thanks!

[@vaidy2000]

Hi. Command + Tilder not working on my Mac

[@TheMacWhisperer]

What are you trying to do? Remember you have to have the other windows open. cmd + tilde will not work if there are not additional windows open, and it will not work if they are minimized or hidden. Let me know the specifics and I am sure we can figure it out...

[@indigorobin]

I am curious why you called them “key codes” in the video, but used the more common term “shortcuts” is in the video title.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Yeah, that was a difficult choice. Shortcuts mean many different things, from Siri Shortcuts to text shortcuts and more. Keycodes only mean one thing, key combinations. I didn't want to use both in the video, so I rolled the dice and decided to use the proper term keycodes, but then hedged my bet, adding the word shortcuts to the title. I went back and forth on that a lot. I may have made the wrong choice, and may adjust the thumbnail to use the other name to see if it improves the video's traction. Thanks for asking, great question!

[@MullyShaves]

Your pneumonic for copy and paste, seriously, dude. Cmnd + C = Copy/Cmnd + V = Paste ……it’s next to C. Jesus.That’s much easier than trying to remember some horse shit about a dog.

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Different strokes for different folks. 🤷‍♂️ The shock to me is how few people recognize that Z, X, C, and V are all right next to each other. 😲 They're constantly struggling to remember which one means what... mostly because they expect paste to be Command P, which it isn't. It's great that you have an easy way to remember it, but the reality is that many people forget that V is paste. Knowing that it is just like a caret that you use to append something you've written by hand has helped many of them. It's great that you don't need that... but some people do.

[@MullyShaves]

@@TheMacWhisperer Apologies for being so rude in my comment. Just that the dog thing confused me more than just remembering that V is next to C. hahaha!! I remember when I learned that I was like "Why V?" and my friend said "Because it's next to C". Made sense. hehe!! Once again, apologies for being so aggressive before. That was quite assholish of me.

[@fidoalca9]

Thanks!

[@TheMacWhisperer]

Thank you so much for the generous tip! 💰 I really appreciate it! 🙏