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How to Minimize and Hide all Windows in macOS?

Starting with Mac OS X Yosemite, Apple offered simplified functionality for the buttons for closing, increasing and minimizing program windows. On Mac, these buttons are traditionally located in the upper left corner of the program window. Clicking on the green window scaling button in applications that do not support macOS full-screen mode will result in the window simply increasing to the maximum size. In the programs that support the native full-screen mode, clicking on the button will allow you to deploy the application to full screen.

macOS offers a number of other window management options, for example, reducing the window size to a minimum without, stretching one side of the application window to there minimal size or hiding all windows.

I bring to your attention a few useful tips that allow you to simplify working with application windows on Mac.

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Hiding Application Windows on Mac

In order to hide (almost the same as the minimized) active application, press the “Command” + “H” combination or select the “Hide” parameter in the application menu.

To hide all windows of open applications, except for the one you are working with, use the keyboard shortcut “Command” + “Option” + “H” on the keyboard or select the option “Hide others” in the program menu.

Minimize the Current Application Window

“Command” + “M” The combination minimizes the current window. This is useful when you want to temporarily pause a window.

To restore a minimized window, click the application icon in the Dock. If you have minimized several windows, right-click on the icon to bring up the context menu and open the required window from it.

Hide and Minimize All Mac Windows

“Command” + “Option” + “H” + “M” this effect is instantaneous and immediately clears the display of all application windows, without closing or closing any of the applications.

Resize Application Window to Mac

Changing the window size is quite simple – move the mouse cursor to the edge or corner of the window, click and drag the edge or corner of the window to the right, left, up or down. To resize only parts of the window, double click on one of its edges and the window will automatically turn to the right side of the screen.

Conclusion

With these options, you can easily manage any of the windows on the screen, without having to touch each side or corner separately.

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Hi there! My Name is Vincent Lago! My goal is to share insightful reviews, guides, and manuals for people looking to know more about current solutions for Apple hardware and OS. I have years of technological background knowledge including owning a custom iMacs & PCs which was using for different types of business. And now, I want to share my experience with you.

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Manage windows on Mac

When you open an app or the Finder on your Mac, a window opens on the desktop. Only one app at a time is active; the name of the app (in bold) and the app menus are shown in the menu bar.

Some apps, such as Safari or Mail, let you open multiple windows or different types of windows at the same time. macOS provides several ways to manage open apps and windows.

Move, align and merge windows

On your Mac, do any of the following:

Move a window: Drag the window by its title bar to where you want it. Some windows can’t be moved.

Align windows: Drag a window close to another one — as the window nears the other one, it aligns without overlapping. You can position multiple windows adjacent to each other.

To make adjacent windows the same size, drag the edge you want to resize — as it nears the edge of the adjacent window, it aligns with the edge and stops.

Merge an app’s windows into one tabbed window: In the app, choose Window > Merge All Windows.

To make a tab a separate window again, select the tab, then choose Window > Move Tab to New Window, or just drag the tab out of the window. See Use tabs in windows.

Maximise or minimise windows

On your Mac, do any of the following in a window:

Maximise a window: Press and hold the Option key while you click the green maximise button in the top-left corner of an app window. To return to the previous window size, Option-click the button again.

You can also double-click an app’s title bar to maximise the window (as long as the option to do so is set to “zoom” in Dock & Menu Bar preferences).

Minimise a window: Click the yellow minimise button in the top-left corner of the window or press Command-M.

You can set an option in Dock & Menu Bar preferences to have a window minimise when you double-click its title bar.

Most windows can be manually resized. Drag the window’s edge (top, bottom, or sides) or double-click an edge to expand that side of the window.

Quickly switch between app windows

On your Mac, do any of the following:

Switch to the previous app: Press Command-Tab.

Scroll through all open apps: Press and hold the Command key, press the Tab key, then press the Left or Right arrow key until you get to the app you want. Release the Command key.

If you change your mind while scrolling through the apps and don’t want to switch apps, press Esc (Escape) or the Full Stop key, then release the Command key.

Close windows

On your Mac, do any of the following:

Close a single window: In a window, click the red Close button in the top-left corner of the window, or press Command-W.

Close all open windows for an app: Press Option-Command-W.

Closing one or all windows for an app does not close or quit the app. To do so, press Command-Q, or click the app’s name in the menu bar, then choose Quit [App]. See Quit apps.

You can hide the active app by pressing Command-H.

Use Mission Control to quickly arrange open windows and spaces in a single layer to easily spot the one you need.

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Minimize and Hide All Windows in Mac OS X with Command+Option+H+M

By combining the Hide All windows shortcut with the minimize keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X, you can use a third ‘Minimize and Hide All’ shortcut that both hides and minimizes all windows open on a Mac.

This hide and minimize all trick is accomplished by hitting the Command+Option+H+M keys together.

Hide and Minimize All Mac Windows with Command + Option + H + M

The effect is instantaneous and immediately clears the display of any and all application windows, without closing or quitting any of the apps.

As the title suggests, rather than closing anything, this keyboard shortcut will hide all other applications and windows, in addition to minimizing the currently active application or window into the Dock, effectively clearing the entire screen and giving you a blank view of the desktop on the Mac.

If you have Dock icon translucency enabled as shown in the screenshot, the hidden apps will appear as translucent. Meanwhile, the minimized windows from the foremost app will be in the Dock separately, on the right-hand side of the Dock as minimized windows appear as usual.

This works the same in just about every version of OS X tested, from Lion to Mavericks to Yosemite. Heads up to @sambrowne for the great little keyboard shortcut tip. If you have any little-known yet awesome keystrokes like this for OS X, let us know!

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Hide All Windows on a Mac with Keyboard Shortcuts

We’re going to share several approaches to hide app windows in Mac OS X by using keyboard shortcuts. This is a great collection of tips that will undoubtedly speed up your Mac workflow once you remember the keystrokes and understand how they work.

To be completely clear, hiding a window does just what it sounds like, it hides the app window(s) but does not close them. All of the hidden windows can be made visible again by choosing the application again.

How to Hide ALL Windows in the Active Mac OS X App Instantly

If you need to quickly hide all windows within an active Mac OS X application, just hit Command+H and all the apps windows will become hidden. You can then manually retrieve the windows of the app by clicking through onto the applications Dock icon.

How to Hide All Windows *Except* the Currently Active App / Window

Another great alternative is to hide all the windows on screen except for the currently active window or application. To do this, hit Command+Option+H at any time. This is a great trick to help focus on the task at hand, as literally everything but the most forefront app will be hidden instantly on the Mac screen. Again you can resurface those hidden windows by clicking on the apps Dock icon.

I would recommend combining both of these tips with the ability to make hidden application icons translucent within the Dock, which is activated through a simple Terminal command and it helps to determine which apps are hidden by a visual indicator that is quite obvious. It works great with the use of the aforementioned commands.

Hiding Apps & Windows from the Application Menu in OS X

Any active application menu item can also be used to either hide the current app, or to hide other apps. Just pull down the currently active apps menu bar item (for example, in Safari you would click the Safari menu) and choose either “Hide Appname” or “Hide Others”.

Those menu options are what the keyboard shortcuts are linked to.

Hide away from active apps by Option + Clicking elsewhere

You can also hold down the Option key and click away from a Mac application and it will hide the application or windows being clicked away from.

Remember, hiding windows is not the same as closing windows, though there is a keystroke to close all windows in Mac OS X too. Equally useful to know, just different!

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Question: Q: Short cut key to minimize all the windows

Is there a short cut key in mountain lion to minimize all the windows at the same time?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 9, 2012 10:54 PM

Posted on Aug 9, 2012 11:06 PM

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You can combine the Hide All keyboard shortcut (Command+Option+H) which hides all windows except the currently active window with the Minimize Active Window keyboard shortcut (Command+Option+M) referenced above.

To invoke this third ‘Minimize and Hide All’ shortcut press the Command+Option+H+M keys in Lion and Mountain Lion.

But it is just as easy to double-click Mission Control on the Dock to the “Show Desktop” option and then restore the entire window layouts by double-clicking Mission Control on the Dock a second time.

Oct 23, 2012 8:22 PM

Oct 22, 2013 1:22 PM

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Aug 9, 2012 11:06 PM

This functionality stopped working in mountain lion. Only the active window get minized.

Sep 26, 2012 6:30 AM

It works for all windows of the active application, not all windows for all applications. You didn’t make that distiction in your original post.

The command has been the same in all versions of OSX.

Sep 26, 2012 12:52 PM

You can combine the Hide All keyboard shortcut (Command+Option+H) which hides all windows except the currently active window with the Minimize Active Window keyboard shortcut (Command+Option+M) referenced above.

To invoke this third ‘Minimize and Hide All’ shortcut press the Command+Option+H+M keys in Lion and Mountain Lion.

But it is just as easy to double-click Mission Control on the Dock to the “Show Desktop” option and then restore the entire window layouts by double-clicking Mission Control on the Dock a second time.

Oct 23, 2012 8:22 PM

Does anyone happen to know any application that could minimize all windows (meaning all windows from all applications from all developers etc) on one single hotkey?

Something as simple as Win-D in Windows?

Oct 22, 2013 1:10 PM

Oct 22, 2013 1:22 PM

Like mentioned many times, F11 moves all open windows sideways so you can see the desktop, but it doesn’t perform neither «Minimize» nor «Hide» operations on any of the windows.

The difference is: whatever you do next, all the open windows come back to the screen. When they are minimized/hidden, they stay that way. This, and only this is the desired behavior that this question is about.

Somebody please correct me if I got it wrong.

Oct 23, 2013 1:07 PM

Thanks for sharing, your information solved my problem.

Jan 1, 2014 8:04 PM

Just found this thread and was playing around with mission control based on the above post, and then thought «gesture» . so if you have a mac trackpad, just take your five fingers bunched up and do a «spread» gesture — all windows fly to the top and right of the screen and become narrow silver bars. You guessed it, do the opposite gesture to immediately restore the windows. Since I’m on a big bad iMac, and just created a wickedly cool switchfoot desktop image with multiple layers, this is just a thing of beauty . 😎

Mar 31, 2014 8:15 PM

I think most people came here want quick access to their desktop and do not care if the operation is «hide» or «minimize».

The bad news is I never found a satisfying build-in solution — and I searched a lot. Most shortcuts hide/minimize the current window, all windows of the current application or all other windows. None of them hides/minimizes all the windows of all applications (if you found one, let me know).

The good news is there is a workaround.

1. Save this AppleScript using AppleScript-Editor in /Users/#you#/Library/Scripts (e.g. «ShowDesktop.scpt»)

2. In Quicksilver (don’t have it? Go: http://qsapp.com/ ) and add a hotkey-trigger (‘Triggers. ‘ -> ‘+’ -> ‘HotKey’ -> ‘Select an item = #your-script#’ -> ‘Action = Run’). (To set the actual hotkey double-click the Trigger-column)

Step 2 may also be done with other Hotkey-Apps like «Shortcuts», but Quicksilver is free.

«Can’t I just put this AppleScript into a service for every application via Automator and set a shortcut in System Preferences?»

Yes, you could. But than you would have to allow every application to control your computer in Privacy-settings (not a good idea).

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