Mac hot corners is a feature that lets you perform certain actions just by moving your cursor to one of four corners on the screen. Since all it takes is moving the cursor over, sometimes we accidentally activate this feature. But no more, because there’s a better way.
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Enhanced Hot Corners
You can find this feature by going to System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver > Hot Corners. Or, just search for hot corners. You can use hot corners for actions like starting/disabling your screen saver, opening Mission Control, going to the Desktop, putting your Mac to sleep, and more.
A feature of hot corners that isn’t obvious in the drop-down menu is that you can hold down a key, or a combination of keys, when you select an item. These keys can be command, option, shift, and control. It means that next time you want to use a hot corner you have to move your cursor and hold that key down. This will help stop you from hot corner accidents.
The article says you can use Hot Corners to “put your Mac to sleep”. How does that work? When I select “Put Display to Sleep” it will only turn off the display and never enter the full sleep mode.
Hello Peanut and sorry for the delayed reply. Good catch! You can only put your Display to sleep, not the Mac.
Nice tip. Thanks! On the other hand:
To admins: it is hard to type in this message field, since the cursor does not show when using Dark Mode 3.3.0 (Safari extension from App Store) in Safari 14.1.1 (16611.2.7.1.4) on macOS 11.4 (20F71) Big Sur (latest versions for all) with “Apple – System Preferences – General – Appearance – Dark” selected. I have reported that several times to no avail, so I am including it here in case that you could forward it to the appropriate person at MacObserver. Thanks!
Hi Macsee,
Thanks for letting us know, I went ahead and shared your message with the team.
Great! Thanks!
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