Cmd Tilde, Cmd Grave Accent for switching among windows in an app on Mac; like Cmd Tab

September 07, 2017

Cmd Tilde, Cmd Grave Accent for switching among windows in an app on Mac; like Cmd Tab

Most people know about Cmd Tab keyboard shortcut on the Mac (Alt Tab on Windows) which lets you switch among open apps without touching the mouse. Back in my early days as a UX designer, I extended this concept to the key right above Tab—the tilde (technically grave accent, but tilde is easier to say)—to switch between windows in Microsoft Internet Mail and News and Internet Explorer, and eventually to Entourage and the rest of the Mac Office apps.

Someone at Apple liked the idea and baked it into macOS. So now in any app on the Mac, you can use Cmd Tilde and Cmd Shift Tilde to switch among open windows.

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September 07, 2017