Anyone who owns a MacBook should be aware that the touchpad, that is the surface on which to move the finger to move the mouse cursor, and also the Apple Magic Mouse support many of the typical features of a touchscreen, to perform actions quickly, with the multi-touch Depending on how you move two or even three fingers on the trackpad or mouse, you can move windows, switch from one program to another or from one page to another, call the notification center, enlarge images and move around the system, saving a lot time and more simply.
Learning to use the Touchpad on Macbook or the Magic Mouse on any Mac computer and knowing all or most of these gestures saves a lot of time in daily activities and brings out all the potential of Apple computers.
1) Open the notification center by swiping two fingers from the right
The notification center became much more useful after updating the MacBook with the MacOS Sierra version.
To open it quickly, you can swipe two fingers together on the touchpad or mouse starting from the far right, almost from outside the surface, as you would on a tablet screen.
2) Open the Launchpad with three fingers and your thumb
The Launchpad is the tool to access a list of all installed applications, very useful if you don't keep the Applications folder on the dock.
To quickly launch the Launchpad, you need to pinch the touchpad using three fingers and your thumb.
Pinching means touching the pad with one hand, placing three fingers above and the thumb below, and then closing the fingers until the three fingers touch the thumb.
3) Show the desktop with three fingers and a thumb
The inverse movement compared to that of the Launchpad, returns to the desktop hiding all open windows.
In this case, touch the mat with the tips of three fingers and with your thumb and instead of closing them, open them by increasing the distance between the three fingers and the thumb.
4) Call up Mission Control by swiping three fingers up
Mission Control is the tool to view all open applications together.
To quickly open it from the trackpad, just swipe from the bottom to the top with three fingers.
5) See all open windows of the same application
Swiping three fingers from top to bottom opens a screen similar to that of Mission Control, only that only the open windows of the same app appear (Exposè).
6) Switch from one desktop to another
If you use the virtual multi-desktop function, to keep different work environments in order, you can switch from one desktop to another by swiping on the trackpad or magic mouse with three fingers left or right.
7) Go back and forth in the Safari browser, in the calendar or even in QuickTime with two fingers
One of the most useful touchpad gestures is that which allows you to scroll through the web pages open on Safari by swiping two fingers left or right.
For example, if you do a search on Google and open a result, you can go back to the results page by swiping two fingers from left to right which is the movement to go back to the previous page.
In QuickTime with this gesture you can quickly go forward or backward in a video. You can use the two-finger swipe to scrub a video forward or backward.
8) Touch with three fingers
With a three-finger tap on a link in Safari, its preview opens for a quick look.
Touching any word with three fingers will open a box to find its definition.
Touching any file or image with three fingers will open the quick look for a quick preview.
9) Zoom in Preview and in Safari
As you zoom in touchscreens, so you can zoom in on the MacBook by pinching the touchpad with two fingers.
Above an image or web page, touch the pad with a finger above and your thumb below and then move them by squeezing or moving them apart to zoom in or out.
10) Rotate an image
Although it can be uncomfortable, you can use the trackpad to rotate an image, when previewed, by touching a finger and thumb and then turning them as if opening the cap of a bottle.
Like zoom, this also works in most versions of Photoshop.
To see pictures of how to use the Macbook mouse gestures you can go directly to the instructions page on the Apple website.
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