Articles about the keyboard shortcuts that are available on Apple devices.
iPadOS and iOS 13.4 brought a bunch of navigation, editing and formatting shortcuts to the Photos app for the first time that help make you more productive while you manage your photographs and videos. Follow along with our step-by-step tutorial to familiarize yourself with all the keyboard shortcuts in Photos for iPad that are available when using a wireless keyboard.
Most people love shortcuts, especially keyboard shortcuts. These give us quicker ways to accomplish tasks and navigate apps and web pages. And if you use the Notes app on your Mac, there’s no better place to use them. When you’re jotting down a note, you want a fast way to do it and move on.
For all of you note-takers, we’ve compiled a list of keyboard shortcuts for the Notes app on your Mac.
We’ve been sharing a lot of iMovie how-tos over the past few months. So now it’s time to help you with something you’re sure to find useful: iMovie keyboard shortcuts.
Taking action any app on your Mac can be much quicker and easier with a keyboard shortcut. And when it comes to iMovie, there are plenty of them. Many you’ll remember and many you won’t, but this helpful guide gives you the most common ones.
If you love keyboard shortcuts for navigating Safari, Mail, or Finder on your Mac, then this list is for you. We’ve compiled handy keyboard shortcuts that help you quickly move through your Dock and the apps that you keep in it.
Here are 13 Mac keyboard shortcuts to make better use of your Dock.
Keyboard shortcuts aren’t things that every computer user takes advantage of. It could be because you don’t think about them, don’t use them often enough, or simply don’t know what they are.
But using keyboard shortcuts can help you do many things much faster on your Mac. You can control your system, work with documents, and navigate quicker and easier than you probably think.
For a nice reference you can bookmark, here are 50 common keyboard shortcuts that all Mac users should know.
One of the first things I looked for when I started using a MacBook Pro for work was how to navigate web pages faster. Being able to move to the top, to the bottom, or both in small increments and without lifting my fingers from the keyboard was essential.
If you’re like me and want to navigate sites you visit quicker, this list is for you. Here are several keyboard shortcuts to move up, down, and sideways on web pages on Mac.
If you use Microsoft Word on your Mac, then you have more customization options than you probably realize. The settings can help make your experience more efficient and productive each time you use the application.
One of the settings that helps you move through your word-processing tasks faster is the keyboard shortcuts. Without lifting your fingers from the keyboard to grab your mouse or use your touchpad, you can accomplish a variety of tasks. And you can customize the shortcuts to suit what you use most and which keys are easiest to remember.
Veteran users are privy to the power of the Mac modifier keys. Those special keys on your Mac's keyboard, like Command (⌘), Option (⌥), Control (⌃), and others, are most commonly used in conjunction with regular keys as feature shortcuts.
Frequently-used macOS commands have their dedicated keyboard shortcuts, many of which are the same across apps like copy/paste and undo/redo. Others are app-specific.
Memorizing regularly used keystrokes boosts your productivity and multitasking prowess, but Apple doesn't provide an easy way to view all the keyboard shortcuts in any given app.
You can, of course, view and customize some of the system and app shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, but wouldn't it be nice if there were a better way?
Thankfully, there actually is.
If you’re going to make the most of Safari as your desktop browser, it might make sense to memorize some of the best keyboard shortcuts to supercharge your browsing workflow.
This is especially true for folks who have dozens of open tabs at any given time. Safari for Mac provides you with many productivity-infused keyboard shortcuts that save time, including a trio of essential keyboard combinations for quickly switching between your open tabs.
TUTORIAL: 11 must-know Safari keyboard shortcuts for Mac
The macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 software update brought out yet another powerful shortcut for quickly getting to the rightmost tab. This is a handy productivity feature for those times when you have more tabs than fit Safari's tab bar.
It's only available on Macs that run macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or higher so be sure to update your copy of macOS to the latest version available by choosing App Store from the Apple menu, then click the Updates tab.
How to jump to rightmost Safari tabTo get to the rightmost open tab in Safari for Mac, press Command (⌘)-9 on the keyboard.
Again, this particular shortcut requires that macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or later be installed on your Mac. If you have an older macOS edition, pressing the same shortcut will select your ninth tab from the left. In case you didn't know, you can jump quickly to any of your first eight tabs by pressing Command (⌘)-1 to Command (⌘)-8.
macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and up allows jumping to the rightmost open tab using Command-9
You can cycle through your open tabs even faster with a trackpad gesture: when there are more tabs than fit in Safari's tab area, use your trackpad to swipe left or right over the tab bar to scroll through your open tabs like a pro.
TUTORIAL: 3 ways to reopen recently closed tabs in Safari for Mac
And if your Mac has the Touch Bar feature, you can touch an icon displayed on the Touch Bar to jump directly to the corresponding tab or scroll through all of your open tabs by swiping left or right over the Touch Bar area.
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When you have several open tabs in Safari, switching among them with your mouse or trackpad can be a chore. This is because it can be tough to click the tiny tab icons at the top of your Safari screen. But with the help of keyboard shortcuts, things can get a bit convenient.
In this tutorial, we show you some handy keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs in Safari on Mac.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up a custom keyboard shortcut on your Mac to export web pages and documents from various apps like Safari, Notes, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, etc., as PDF files.
Your favorite assistant finally made its way to the Mac, starting with the macOS Sierra software update.
If you have used Siri on your iPhone or iPad before, then you'll probably feel right at home with the assistant on your Mac since it works in a similar way. However, unlike your iPhone, you don't have the ability to invoke Siri on your Mac by saying "Hey, Siri." Instead, you will have to click on the Siri icon in the Menu Bar, or in the Dock.
Another way to invoke Siri is by using a keyboard shortcut. Admittedly, this is my preferred way of activating the assistant as it feels faster and more efficient than reaching for the mouse or trackpad and clicking on the Siri icon.