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How to Use Mission Control (a.k.a. Multidesktop Wizard Mode) on Mac

🎮 How It Works

🧃 Step 1: Open Mission Control

You can summon it like a wizard in 3 ways:

Swipe up with 3 or 4 fingers on your trackpad

Press F3 (that key with 3 squares stacked like pancakes, seen on a Mac with no touch bar, or new model - past 2021)

Control + ↑ arrow

Boom 💥 Your Mac will zoom out into multidesktop mode, also known as Mission Control

🧃 Step 2: Meet The Desktop Universe

Once you’re in Mission Control:

Your open apps are laid out nicely. Clean. Feng shui.

At the top, you’ll see your current desktop(s) — probably just “Desktop 1”

That’s about to change 😏

🧃 Step 3: Add More Desktops (a.k.a. New Realities)

Move your mouse to the top bar → hover near the right corner

→ Click the ➕ button

Boom. Another desktop just got born.

🧃 Step 4: Use It Like a Boss

- Open different apps in different desktops.

- Example:

Desktop 1 = Work stuff 🧾

Desktop 2 = Netflix (I mean, break time) 🎬

Desktop 3 = Spotify & memes 🎶

Swipe left/right with 4 fingers to switch between them like a ninja

Or use Control + ← / → arrows to do the same with keyboard swagger

🧃 Closing Desktops

Back in Mission Control → hover over a desktop → click the ❌

Don’t worry, apps will just go to Desktop 1. They’re not dead, just... relocated 😌

🎉 Outro:

Congrats, space traveller 🪐

You now know how to live multiple desktop lives like a true multitasking Mac wizard.

🎖️ Achievement Unlocked:

“Didn’t accidentally launch Launchpad instead of Mission Control” 👏

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