10 Useful Mac Shortcuts That Save You Vital Time Of Your Work

If you apply them once, you can’t live without.

Nikhil Vemu
Mac O’Clock
Published in
5 min readAug 26, 2021

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Apple Macintosh Plus Keyboard
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16766. The photo is old, but the shortcuts do work for your latest MacBook.

As you clicked on this article, I can safely assume you’re a Mac user, or someone who’s buying a Mac shortly, or you could also be Tim Cook. Why not? Hello sir! Whoever you are, you’ll always need shortcuts for easing petty things in the middle of a project.

We, busy people, are too busy to learn shortcuts. Most of us only know half-a-dozen shortcuts and we only smack them up repeatedly. However, there are a myriad of shortcuts just waiting under our keyboards to be used.

Here are a 10 of them in Mac.

Wait mom! Err… Auto-dictate turned on. My mistake. Let me undo it. ⌘ + Z. <keyboard sounds> Huff…

Anyway, here are 10 of the most productive shortcuts in Mac.

TL;DR
1. Open new tab in Safari
2. Create a copy of file
3. Open iCloud
4. Scroll through document pages
5. Open AirDrop menu
6. Screenshot/Screen Record
7. Open help menu
8. Create new folder
9. Open preferences
10. Force quit application

1. ⌘+T (Opens new tab in Safari)

If you’re like me, who opens dozens tabs at once for research or binge, you need this. You don’t always need to press that…

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