if you're a brand-new Mac Owner you might have wondered what the little red
yellow and green buttons on the top left corner of the screen do so today in this
short tutorial I will be talking about these two dots these dots are pretty
much on every application or window on a Mac and I'm just going to go over what
they mean so let's start off with the first one. So just for demonstration I'm
actually going to open up a Safari window so the first one is the red dot
so on a Mac the red dot is for closing a window not quitting the application
completely so if a close this window notice how on the top left corner it will still
say Safari which means this app is still running in the background and I've only
close the window when I press the red dot it will actually close the window
but not actually quit the application and it will be running in the
background also as you can see like it's a nice animation when I hover my mouse and it becomes a cross
basically in Mac it says cross means close because on a window PC
when you press the cross or the close button you will actually quit them quit the
application not just close the window so on a mac it closes when I press it as
you can see it's says Safari. I can access all the Safari options from
browsing history bookmarks and windows so it shows me safaris open so the only
difference between was closing a window and quitting it completely was right now
as you can see I close the window so Safari still open and I could easily
open a new tab by going in the file new window or I can also press the use one
of these shortcuts such as Command +N and it opens up a new window and I can close
it back again by pressing the dot because i opened it three times,
three windows so the red dot usually means closed however this is an
exception in some apps so one of the app is Photos app of Mac OS so if I just
open photos so if I press the red button instead of actually just closing
the window like it would do on a safari or any other. For Ex messages, pages if
I press the dot it will actually close the window but on photos if a press the dot
it will actually quit the application so as you can see how it shows me finder
instead of photos so it means that actually the application
is closed it's not running in the background now another way to check that
is you can actually head over to your dock and see the photos it there's no
small dot below the photo icon that dot just shows that the application is still
running in the background for example from a messages or pages I know I have
another Pages document open which is just minimized so it shows me a Dot that
it's actually open and running in the background so if photos was running in
the background it would have the it would have the
dot like Safari would have the dots because it's running in the background I
didn't actually quit it using command Q now moving on to the next one this amber
yellow dot is minimized so it's the same as the one you will get on PC pressing
big yellow or the - we'll just minimize the application so once you hit this
button the window will move down over to your dock in the bottom right corner and
you resume a work all you have to do is click on the window and you were like
you want to reopen and it will come right back up form it for Safari so I
will just click once and just comes back the next one is the green dot so
basically that this green dot or you can also call maximize have two
different functions so one of which is to go in full screen or you can also say
maximize as I said before so all you have to do is click on it and everything
melts away enlarging the window to fill in the screen to view what's on the page
now to just get out of this all if you just click the Escape key the ESC key
that's the top left Key on your keyboard or also the key that's right
beside on the left hand side of the F1 key so if I press the ESC key it just
it's not maximized anymore but this is method might not always work for all
applications but there's another way so I will just go back maximize to show you
the other way so if you press the Escape key and it doesn't it doesn't go out of
maximized so the other ways you take your mouse and go on top of the screen
until you see the toolbar and you will see the red and the green maximize
button you press the green dot and it
won't be maximized anymore early in this video I said that the green dot also has
a second purpose so now this feature is only available in
most recent operating systems for the Mac so it might or might not work for
you so I just open reminders and my calendar so which are the two most
likely apps that I will use side by side now to do this all have to do is press
and hold the green dot and you will see it lights up if I drag it to the right
it highlights right and if I drag it to the left it highlights the left side of
the screen so now what I'm going to do is run these applications half screen I
have on my calendar to be on the left side so I will just go on the left side
not on not on the right side on the left side I will leave your mouse and as you
can see it will melt into the half screen divide the screen into half and
my calendar app will actually take the left half of the screen and then if I'm
more than one application open on the right side I will actually have the
option to choose for now I only have one reminder so I will just go there and tap
and go full screen so now it's just 50/50 or you can also call it split screen
the split screen so now if I am working on my calendar and I want more space on
my calendar side the left side not on my reminders so all I can do that is I can
go like in this black vertical bar I can take my mouse in the middle as you can
see the cursor will change and I can press and drag it to the right to
increase the size for them on my left side so for my calendar or I can if or I
can also do the vice versa hold it and drag it to the left to get more side on
the right side like more right app area or view area on the right hand format -
Than my calendars. Hopefully after watching this video you
have an idea of how these three button works feel free to ask any questions in
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