![]() You still need to know the password for the login utility Siri can’t help you with that. If it is, your login credentials will be displayed using the appropriate password utility. The ever-faithful assistant will check to see if the forgotten password is in your Keychain, iCloud Keychain, or Safari password list. ![]() Just say something like, “Hey Siri, what’s my Netflix Password?” If you’ve forgotten a password, say to a website, you can ask Siri for help. Missing in the public beta, but likely to show up in the release version is an option to specify the sort order within a desktop stack. It will be interesting to see how long Mess Up Desktop stays in the beta, and if it makes it to the release version of macOS Mojave. (Tired of a well-organized desktop? Use the hidden Mess Up Desktop menu item to create chaos on your desktop.) Want a bigger mess? Select the Mess Up Desktop menu item multiple times. Selecting this menu item will scatter the desktop files all around, making a mess. A new menu item will appear, labeled Mess Up Desktop. Right-click on the desktop and once the popup menu appears, hold down the option key. If you’ve disabled Stacks, there’s another hidden trick related to cleaning up your desktop, or in this case, not cleaning up your desktop. Once the checkmark is gone, the stacks are removed, and all of their content is flung back onto your desktop. To disable Stacks: You can remove the checkmark from the Use Stacks menu by repeating the above steps. Or, you can right-click on the desktop, and select Use Stacks from the popup menu. To enable Stacks: From the Finder menu, select View, Use Stacks. Simply place your cursor on top of the stack, then, with a trackpad, slide two fingers side to side to scrub through the content, or with a Magic Mouse, use a single finger to perform the scrubbing. Stacks also support scrubbing through their content without opening them. You can then select an item to open or work on. ![]() The desktop stacks work much like stacks that reside in your dock clicking or tapping on a desktop stack causes the stack to open and display its content. No matter which way you get there, the sorting choices are: You can control how stacks are created, and the sorting order they use, by either selecting View, Group Stacks By from the Finder menu, or right-clicking on the desktop and selecting Group Stacks By from the popup menu. (Selecting Use Stacks will quickly clean up your desktop, sorting files into like kind stacks on your desktop). The stacks are usually organized by kind, placing all your image files into one stack, all your PDFs into another, etc. Nevertheless, there are a few features that didn’t get shown.ĭesktop stacks allow you to clean up your desktop, organizing all the items scattered about the desktop into stacks. It may be pressing the issue to call this feature hidden since Stacks on the desktop was shown off at WWDC. Place a checkmark in the box labeled, “Show recent applications in Dock to enable the feature or remove the checkmark to turn off the feature and reclaim the Dock space.” (The Dock preference pane includes a checkbox to enable or disable the option to Show recent applications in Dock.)Ĭurrently, the recent apps Dock section is limited to three apps it would be nice to have the ability to set how many can be seen. Launch System Preferences by clicking its icon in the Dock, or by selecting System Preferences from the Apple menu. The recent apps section of the Dock has very basic controls you can set: This prevents duplicate apps from showing up in your Dock. Second, only apps that don’t already have a home in the Dock are displayed. First, the recent apps aren’t displayed in a stack but as individual icons in the Dock. If this seems similar to the Recent Applications Stack that you can create in the Dock, it is, but with a few differences. (A new section of the Dock is reserved for displaying up to three recently used apps.) This new feature is located after the Apps section of the Dock, and before the Documents and Trash section of the Dock. The Dock gets a new organizational tool it can show three of the most recent apps you’ve used in a special area of the Dock. Let us know in the comments if you see any changes in the features. Note: Some features in this article were tested with the beta version of macOS Mojave. What we found were some nifty capabilities hiding, for the most part, in plain sight.Įven more features are expected to show up over time as more users work with the macOS Mojave, but for now, here are our top 6 hidden features of macOS Mojave. With the release of macOS Mojave, we went hunting for features that might be hiding amongst all the changes to the OS.
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