Learn how to use a keyboard shortcut to switch between two or more open documents inside Preview, Pages, Word, and other apps on Mac.
How to quickly switch between open documents (or files) on your Mac with a simple keyboard shortcut
Keyboard Shortcuts
Articles about the keyboard shortcuts that are available on Apple devices.
19 useful Mac startup keyboard shortcuts you should know
For those of you who have wondered about the many ways you can start up your Mac, here's a list of the Mac startup keyboard shortcuts you can invoke to access handy macOS features, which are only available at boot time.
Most of the time, your Mac just works—until it refuses to start up properly due to an unforeseen system error, a misbehaving app, a broken system component, and whatnot. Beyond system errors, different people have different needs when it comes to starting up their computers.
For example, you could be a pro user who dual boots between macOS and Windows on a daily basis. Others might wonder about booting a Mac from a disk other than their designated startup disk. Or perhaps you're looking to isolate the cause of a software issue in the macOS Safe Mode or boot straight into Recovery OS as the last option?
How to quickly turn off your Mac’s screen with a keyboard shortcut
Learn how to instantly turn off the display on your Mac and lock the computer without using any apps or waiting for the screen saver to activate.
10 handy keyboard shortcuts to help you navigate Finder on Mac
In this piece, we'll share with you 10 useful Finder keyboard shortcuts that you can use to quickly navigate around the filesystem on macOS.
10 useful keyboard shortcuts for the Preview app
The Preview app comes pre-installed on all Macs and is more useful than a lot of people give it credit for. It's not only used for opening different file types that reside on your Mac but it can also be used to edit those files and extract images from apps.
Regardless, most of you probably use just your mouse or trackpad to get things done in the Preview app. In this piece, we'll show you 10 ways you can use your keyboard to quickly perform actions in Preview by way of these useful individual keyboard shortcuts.
10 useful keyboard shortcuts for the Mail app on Mac
Check out these must-know keyboard shortcuts for the Apple Mail app on Mac so you can streamline your workflow and speed things up.
12 Safari keyboard shortcuts you should know
If you use Safari as your full-time browser on Mac, then you should learn some of the more important keyboard shortcuts to supercharge your workflow. In this post, we tell you about a dozen must-have Safari shortcuts to power up your browsing experience.
How to show hidden files and folders on Mac
Learn how to view hidden files and folders in Finder on your Mac using simple Terminal commands or a keyboard shortcut to access hidden system data.
How to create custom keyboard shortcuts for Mac apps
Have you ever used a specific menu command in an app and wondered to yourself, "Why is there no keyboard shortcut assigned to this command?" Or "why can't I change that shortcut to something else?" I think we've all been there before. Fortunately, fixing the issue requires little more than a few minutes of your time. Inside, we'll show you how easy it is to quickly create a keyboard shortcut for your favorite apps.
Keyboard shortcuts not working on iOS? Here is a quick fix
If there is one jailbreak tweak I particularly miss, it's Xpandr, a tweak that let's you create keyboard shortcuts, just like TextExpander does on your Mac. To me, it's an invaluable tool that has saved be hours of typing.
Keyboard shortcuts aren't a jailbreak-only feature though, as they were introduced with iOS 5 a few years ago. Though not as powerful as Xpandr, they're my fallback solution when there is no jailbreak available for my device.
So one of the first thing I did when I got my new iPhone last Friday was setting up a bunch of shortcuts (Apple calls them Text Replacement) that I use on a daily basis. Everything worked fine for a day, and then, they magically stopped working. Though I was worried I'd have to restore my iPhone to fix the issue, it turns out the solution was much simpler than I thought.
How to add a keyboard shortcut to any Mac app menu command
Don't you just hate it when one of your favorite Mac apps is missing an obvious keyboard shortcut for an often used menu command? I recently ran into that issue with Pixelmator.
I made the switch to Pixelmator, because it is one of the few decent image editing apps that features support for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Normally I'm a CS5 user, but since Adobe's suite lacks Retina support, I felt compelled to make the switch.
Although I don't find Pixelmator to be as intuitive as Photoshop, making the switch hasn't been all that bad. It's snappy, features a bevy of options, and best of all, it looks gorgeous on the Retina Display. If I had to pick a flaw, I'd say that one of the most glaring miscues is the lack of a dedicated keyboard shortcut for exporting your work. Fortunately that can be remedied with a quick trip to System Preferences...