Hunting down a window while multitasking on your Mac OS X EL Capitan is now just a “4-finger swipe-up” effort on your magic trackpad, and it is all via mission control. It pulls you away from the clutter of your chaotic screen full of multiple open apps -to a panoramically organized comprehensive view aka bird-eye view. The comprehensive view is triggered via mission control. The Mac OS X El Capitan has a whole new redesigned mission control with a cool bunch of features.
Here’s how to use mission control in Mac OS X EL Capitan.
Step 1
Starting Mission Control
‘Swipe Up’ your four fingers on the touch trackpad, or ‘Drag’ a window to the top of the screen. Your screen will split into a spacebar (on the top) and the container (rest of your screen). The spacebar will display your active desktops or any other desktops you have added, and the container will have comprehensive windows of all your open apps aligned to their position on the screen.
Step 2
Switching Between Your Apps
From the organized comprehensive view of your windows, simply select the app you want to use. The app will appear at the top of all your open applications, and you can start using it.
Step 3
Adding a 'New Desktop'
From the organized comprehensive view of your windows, simply ‘Drag’ one of your apps to the top-right corner of your spacebar where you see the ‘Add Desktop’ thumbnail. The app will open in a new desktop.
Step 4
Adding a 'New Standalone Screen'
From the organized comprehensive view of your windows, simply ‘Drag’ one of your apps that can run in full-screen, to the spacebar and then drop it on the ‘Plus’ thumbnail. The app will open in a new standalone full-screen mode without your efforts of finding that little green button on your window. You can also bring that app back to one of your desktops once you’re done with your work.
Step 5
Splitting your Screen
After opening an app in a new standalone screen, just ‘Drag’ one more app to the spacebar and ‘Hover’ it over your standalone screen, you’ll notice a plus thumbnail dividing your current standalone screen into two. ‘Drop’ the app at the position you’d like to and start using both the apps in a split view.
Your MAC OS X just got a bit more handy with mission controls.