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Tab View

⌘-Tab switches between apps. Tab View switches between windows, and shows them where they are: screen by screen, laid out as they sit on your desktop.

  1. Hold ⌥ Option and press ⇥ Tab. Tab View opens with the window you used before this one picked, so a quick ⌥⇥ switches back, like ⌘-Tab does between apps.
  2. Keep holding ⌥ and press ⇥ again to move along, ⇧⇥ to go back, or use the arrow keys to move to the nearest window that way, across screens too.
  3. Let go of ⌥ to switch to the picked window.

Press Esc to close it without switching. You can also click a window, or press ↩ Return, to switch to it.

Each window as a tile with its app’s icon, the app’s name and the window’s title. Minimized windows sit in a row under their screen; picking one brings it back.

Window titles are read only while Tab View is open, to label the tiles. They’re never saved or sent anywhere. See Privacy and permissions.