- [Instructor] In this video, we will see
the full screen feature which lets you set one window
to fill the entire screen.
Then we'll see the split view
where you can have two windows side by side
filling the screen.
I have lots of windows open and I want to focus
on one without being distracted by the others.
In most cases, you can click the gear button near
the top left corner of a window
and that puts that window into the full screen view,
so you can focus on it without any distractions.
I don't see the menu and I don't see the Dock.
If you do need the Dock, you can move the mouse cursor
to the bottom of the screen and the Dock will pop-up,
or if you need the menus,
you can point your mouse cursor at the top edge
of the screen and the menus will become visible.
And this is important because that's also how
you can make that green button visible again.
If you click that green button from here,
it takes you out of the full screen view.
But before I do that, I want you to understand
that the full screen view
is considered a separate desktop space
using the spaces feature of mission control.
I can use the keyboard shortcut for mission control.
That's where I hold the control key and tap the up arrow.
And then I can look at the panel at the top
of the screen where I can see this full screen window
is a separate desktop space,
and I can click on that to go back to that space.
And I can also jump between spaces
using the keyboard shortcut where I hold the control key
and tap the left or right arrow keys.
Okay, so now let's take this out of the full screen view.
So I'll move my mouse cursor up to the top edge
so I can see the menus and I can see the green button,
I can click that,
and it takes that out of the full screen view.
And now, we can talk about the split view,
which is just an extension of the full screen view.
I want Safari and the photos applications
to be side by side in split screen.
So instead of clicking the green button on one of those,
I can click and hold the green button
which opens this menu where I can choose
to either set it to full screen
or I can make it fill just half of the screen,
either the left side or the right side.
So I'll set this to fill the right side of the screen.
Then over on the left side of the screen, I can see all
of the other windows that I have open,
and I can choose the one
that I want to fill that other half.
So I'll click on that
and now we have this split screen view.
You'll see there is this dividing line between them
and you can drag that left or right
to change the percentage of that split.
And of course, these work as separate desktop spaces.
So if I hold the control key
and tap the left or right arrow keys,
I can jump between my other desktop space
and this split view space.
And naturally, when I want to get out of this split view,
I can move my mouse cursor up to the top edge
so the menus will appear,
and I can click the green button on one of these,
it will exit the split view
and go back to a standard window.
Now, I still have that other window in the full screen view.
So using the keyboard shortcut control and right arrow,
I'll jump back over to that other space.
Once again, I'll move my mouse cursor
to the top edge of the screen.
I'll click the green button.
And now that's set back to a floating window.
So now, we're back to our normal workspace.
But now you know how to get into the full screen
or split view whenever you need them.