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Not a fan of it? That's understandable, you can turn the feature off in a couple of clicks How to disable the show desktop shortcut in macOS Sonomaġ. The option to show the desktop when clicking on the wallpaper is enabled by default. Sometimes you may have to double-click to trigger the feature. Click again, this time on the home screen, to return to the app's window. To use the gesture, simply click outside an app's window on a wallpaper, and all your open windows will be minimized, leaving the desktop in view. So, the new gesture to show the desktop may have been enabled to promote the use of the desktop widgets. In case you missed it, macOS Sonoma allows you to now drag and drop widgets from the notification panel onto your desktop, or add them from the new Widgets gallery that you may access from the desktop's right-click menu. You may want to quickly access the desktop to view your app icons, access files on it, or to unmount drives.īut there's another reason why the desktop will be more useful than ever. It may also be useful for people who have a large monitor, and have multiple app windows on the screen. not maximized to fit the screen, or in full screen mode. This can be quite handy for people who work with apps that are windowed, i.e. The same "show desktop" feature is now available in macOS Sonoma, even when Stage Manager is not enabled. With the multitasking feature on, you can click anywhere on the wallpaper to view your desktop. To be more specific, if you activate Stage Manager in macOS 13, your app windows will take center stage, leaving the desktop wallpaper visible on all 4 sides. This isn't completely new to the operating system, it existed in a slightly different form in macOS 13 Ventura.
