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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.

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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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Question: Q: Minimizing and closing windows in MacOS

Hi, I own a MacBook Air 2019 for less than a week, and while i do like the OS, I am having lots of trouble getting used to some things, especially since I’ve always used Windows, such as apps not closing when I press the red cross on the top-left corner, and the fact that I can’t minimize an open app by clicking its dock icon. Are there any workarounds for these problems?

Posted on Sep 18, 2019 7:11 AM

The red «X» on macOS only closes that particular window, but leaves the app open. You either need to click «File —> Quit» or use the hot keys Command + Q. You can also right-click or control-click on the app icon on the dock to access the «Quit» option.

To minimize a window you click the yellow «-» minimize button on the window or click «Window —> Minimize», or use the hotkey Command + M.

If you want to «minimize» the whole app, macOS considers this «hiding» the app. The hot key for this is usually Command + H, or right-click or control-click the dock icon and select «Hide», or select the option by clicking on the app name on the menubar and selecting «Hide «.

FYI, If you click the maximize window option it actually makes the window go full screen with no menubar. To get the Windows maximize option which just enlarges the window to fill the viewing area you can Option-click the green maximize «+» button.

Posted on Sep 18, 2019 12:00 PM

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The red «X» on macOS only closes that particular window, but leaves the app open. You either need to click «File —> Quit» or use the hot keys Command + Q. You can also right-click or control-click on the app icon on the dock to access the «Quit» option.

To minimize a window you click the yellow «-» minimize button on the window or click «Window —> Minimize», or use the hotkey Command + M.

If you want to «minimize» the whole app, macOS considers this «hiding» the app. The hot key for this is usually Command + H, or right-click or control-click the dock icon and select «Hide», or select the option by clicking on the app name on the menubar and selecting «Hide «.

FYI, If you click the maximize window option it actually makes the window go full screen with no menubar. To get the Windows maximize option which just enlarges the window to fill the viewing area you can Option-click the green maximize «+» button.

Sep 18, 2019 12:00 PM

Welcome to the wonderful world of macOS 😉

There are some apps that if you close their window it does indeed quit the application — Disk Utility does this as does System Preferences, but those are the only two I can think of that behave this way (will try and do a little more research and post back any others I find later that do this). I suppose it’s up to the application on what it does if the last/only user interface window closes whether it also quits, but it definitely is the exception, rather than the rule based on my experience. Which apps were you experiencing this behavior with??

HWTech has some good suggestions for keyboard shortcuts dealing with windows — you might want to become familiar with those and some of the other common ones when working on a macOS system. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 for many more and you can look at the System Preferences Keyboard pane then click on the Shortcuts tab for a rather exhaustive list (grouped by categories like Mission Control, Screenshots, etc) and you can even create custom keyboard shortcuts (not sure what happens if you create one that is already defined — maybe someone else can comment on that). I especially like the screenshot oriented shortcuts and the ability to save them in your choice of format (jpeg, pdf, png, tiff among others) as well as have them saved in a specific folder if you choose (the default location is your Desktop).

Anyway, I was in the same boat as you are now a number of years ago, when I decided to start using macOS systems, after using mostly Windows and Unix systems for many years. The learning curve is definitely something you need to climb up, but hope you agree that using Mac systems just seem more fun and there are so many things that seem easier to do or just more intuitive (but of course that is something you will decide for yourself over time) and easier to be more productive (of course there are those who say the same about Windows — but that is of course a very hotly debated topic among some ;-). Be patient and ask lots of questions and try and find a local Mac user group if you can and take advantage of the free classes that Apple stores and other Apple resellers offer, as well as these Apple discussion forums.

Welcome aboard and may you always have smooth sailing and steady breezes while you’re sailing in the sea that is macOS 😉

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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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Quickly Minimize Windows in Mac OS X with a Keyboard Shortcut or Double-Click

Virtually everyone knows you can click the yellow pill button in the upper left corner of a window to minimize a window in Mac OS X, but there are actually a few other ways minimize windows faster than that. The first is my preferred method which is a quick keystroke, and the other lets you double-click anywhere to send a window hiding.

The Minimize Window Keyboard Shortcut: Command+M

By far the fastest way to minimize windows is the Command+M keystroke, which works anywhere with the currently active window. You can modify it by adding an Option+H as well to minimize and hide everything including the currently active window with Command+Option+H+M

Double-Clicking Title Bars to Minimize Windows in OS X

Longtime Mac users should be familiar with this feature which lets you double-click anywhere in the titlebar to minimize a window. To do this in OS X, you’ll have to enable the feature in preferences:

• Open System Preferences and click on “General”
• Look under the scroll bar section and check the box next to “Double-click a window’s title bar to minimize”

This feature has been around in various forms since the early days of Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, long before OS X came along.

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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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