At the moment, they’re mostly the built-in Apple apps like Notes, Mail, Messages, Preview, Pages, Keynote, and TextEdit. Open one of the programs that offers this feature. It’s so buried, though, I’ll bet not one person in a thousand will even know it’s there: If you right-click inside an email, message, or document (top), you can take and insert a photo from your iPhone (bottom). An Options menu lets you choose whether or not the cursor should be included, whether or not you need a timer (a few seconds to get the screen set up properly), and where you want the resulting screenshot sent. It offers buttons for capturing still images of your screen (whole screen or a portion) and also for capturing videos of your screen activity (whole screen or a portion). You’re spared the whole business of finding and editing and sending the shot after creating it.Įven better: The new keystroke Shift-Command-5 opens a new, master screen-capture utility panel. If you click it before it disappears, you can open it up, edit it, crop it, mark it up, delete it, or share it. When you capture the screen image using the age-old keystroke Shift-Command-3 (whole screen) or Shift-Command-4 (portion of the screen), it now works as it does on iOS: It shrinks down into a thumbnail in the corner of the screen. And I do find the Preview panel especially useful when plowing through a list of photos, trying to find a certain one. The Quick Action part is all new, though, and occasionally quite welcome.
The Preview pane is basically the Mac’s existing Get Info panel, but glued onto the side of the window instead of floating loose.
Here again, this feature is just a repackaging of existing features. If you’re handy with Apple’s Automator app, you can make your own Quick Action buttons, too.
PREVIEW MAC OS SLOW MOJAVE PDF
For a PDF document, it’s Mark Up or Add Password. For a photo, the buttons include Rotate and Mark Up.
PREVIEW MAC OS SLOW MOJAVE WINDOWS
(It’s almost identical to the Preview panel in Windows 10.) Now, though, it shows much more of the file’s metadata-your choice of data bits like size, date, camera model, number of pages, and so on.Īnd now it has Quick Action buttons at the bottom, relevant to the kind of file you’ve clicked. Using the View menu, macOS has had the option to turn on a sidebar that shows an icon preview of any icon you select: a thumbnail of a photo, for example, or the first page of a Word document. Only difference I can see is that you no longer get to see the names of the icons.
And now it’s called Gallery View (shown in the first illustration above).
But now, the icons themselves appear in a horizontal row, instead of in a list view (shown in the first illustration above). It still displays a large thumbnail of each icon as you arrow-key your way through the items in a folder. The old Cover Flow view has received a weird, minor tweak. But it’s all about the details, right? Because these stacks are created automatically, they really do create more order on your screen without costing you any effort or time. When you get right down to it, this invention isn’t really so different from the stacks feature on the Dock that the Mac has had for years, or even from regular desktop folders. “Desktop stacks” are little piles of related icons (right) that make your messy desktop (left) neater.