macOS Tip: Set Up and Control Hot Corners With Modifier Keys

[MacRumors]

In macOS, the Hot Corners feature turns each of the four corners of your screen into a designated action, allowing you to quickly access certain functions built into the system, such as Mission Control, Notification Center, the Screen Saver, QuickNote, and more. Many Mac users would agree, there's something satisfying about bringing up these commonly used functions with a simple, swift cursor movement.

What isn't so satisfying, however, is accidentally triggering a Hot Corner, which can lead to all kinds of unintended desktop behavior - like application windows flying all over the place. This can happen when you lose track of the mouse cursor, or when you're working within the confines of a smaller MacBook screen. Thankfully, there's a way to tame wayward Hot Corners using modifier keys. Here's how.
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[TheDailyApple]

If I’m gonna use a modifier key, I might as well just use keyboard shortcuts.

 

[slffl]

If you accidentally trigger a hot corner just trigger it again to go back to the way it was.

 

[ifxf]

One of the first things I do with a new Mac is to turn off the hot corners. I just repurpose the function keys since the only default ones I leave are volume.

 

[sleeptodream]

Hot corners is one of my favorite parts about macOS 💕

These days I keep the bottom corners both set to show the desktop, makes it super fast and easy to get to from most places on the screen, and works great in combination with either the middle mouse button or trackpad gesture set to Mission Control

Then top right with a modifier key puts just the display to sleep, for when I want to keep playing a video or music with the screen off

 

[tweaknmod]

Love this type of content!
MacOS is absolutely full of little tricks and tweaks… 🤓👍

 

[knuta]

like Linux 15 years ago

 

[FloatingBones]

Can we get a Hot Corner for post a snarky Mark Gurman comment, please?

 

[sleeptodream]

PS - I like your use of the Applications folder in the dock, I do that too. I can’t believe it doesn’t come that way by default honestly

 

[SoldOnApple]

Bottom left sleeps the display and locks the MacBook for me. If I'm looking at something I shouldn't be and someone walks up I can quickly lock the Mac without closing the lid or hurriedly clicking around.

 

[montuori]

like Linux 15 years ago

Also like MacOS 15 years ago.

 

[nostradumbass]

It should be renamed Haute Corners because it’s some haute couture level stuff that makes Windows look like it is being designed by an outsource company in a poor country with no design culture.

20 years later and Windows only has one hot corner and bad keyboard shortcuts. I still have to google fricken number codes to type some characters in Windows.

 

[swm]

use keyboard shortcuts. faster, more predictable and in many cases it just requires a single hand. overly relying on mouse slows you down.

 

[lovehateapple]

Really wish apple would bring back DashBoard. The single month calendar in the current notification center is a real bummer, among other things.

 

[Southshore]

Having missed the last few iterations of OS ( I was on a late 2015 iMac until last week when I went M4 Mac Mini), this key+corner is very welcome addition. I never liked stand-alone hot corners, but to assign one key to rule them all? Pretty great.

 

[Slix]

I've been using a Hot Corner for starting the screensaver for over 15 years now. Bottom right! I use the trackpad for everything else (Mission Control, Launchpad, swiping through full screen apps).

Having missed the last few iterations of OS ( I was on a late 2015 iMac until last week when I went M4 Mac Mini), this key+corner is very welcome addition. I never liked stand-alone hot corners, but to assign one key to rule them all? Pretty great.

I just tested it out on a Mac running Snow Leopard and this works as far back as that too (probably older, honestly). Good to know about the modifiers though!

 

[n-evo]

like Linux 15 years ago

Not sure what point you’re trying to make. Hot corners (called active screen corners in the past) have been part of the Mac operating system for at least 22 years. Maybe 25 years or longer as the feature might even date back to Mac OS 9 or the Mac OS X DP at the minimum.

 

[kirky29]

I always use the bottom left corner to turn off the display, nice and easy when I leave my desk unattended

 

[rikki_t]

ALT+CMD+EJECT, very old command for sleeping the machine, hot corners are fine, I have them turned on, handy for showing all windows or hiding all windows, but that's about it

 

[funkright]

Too bad the moderator key wouldn't add an additional functionality to the hot corner (e.g. without modifier it does X, with modifier it does Y, etc.). That would be useful.

 

[jecowa]

On my 2008 iMac, I used the top-right corner to activate the screensaver / password lock it.

 

[chiltonwebb3]

This was a feature you could activate in System 6 (the old school MacOS) with an extension. So, 36 years ago. I had it on my MacSE / 30

 

[blodyholy]

I realize this shouldn’t need a 3rd party app to utilize this functionality on Windows, but there is a free utility out there called ‘WinXCorners’ that accomplishes this. I find it appalling that there’s no built-in functionality to turn off your screen on demand, so this does the trick.

 

[Adora]

What is new about Hot Corners? They had been there since I use Macs (2013). Or am I confusing something?

But here one is always turned on by preset and I have to disable it to not trigger it several times a day.

 

[steve333]

How can I stop the page from automatically enlarging when I drag it close to right side of the screen? I don't know why Apple thinks this is helpful, it is annoying!