

Hide all applications and minimize the active applicationĪnother useful keyboard shortcut is “Command + Option + H + M”. Click the desktop first and press “Command + Option + H”. Clicking the desktop will usually do the trick. To hide all applications, you just have to make sure that no application window is active.

To hide all applications except for the active one, press “Command + Option + H”. To hide the active application, simply press “Command + H”. Minimizing an application will bring it to the dock and require you to manually reactivate it from the dock (the “Command + Tab” selection won’t work). Hiding the application just make it disappear on the screen, and it will reappear when you do a “Command + Tab” selection. Hiding an application is different from minimizing it. Hide all applications, except for the active one They are moved to the corner temporary and they will restore to their original position when you open another application. Note that this function does not minimize or hide the application windows. Pressing F11 again will restore the windows. If you just want to quickly access the files in the desktop, simply press F11 (Fn + F11 for laptop) to move all the windows to the corner and reveal the desktop.
