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See every window of the app you are using

App Exposé spreads out the windows of the current app, including the ones hiding on other desktops.

Swipe down with three or four fingers — it depends on your trackpad settings — and every open window of the app you are in spreads out on screen. Click one and you are in it.

This is App Exposé, and it answers the question ⌘ + Tab cannot. That switcher moves between apps, so four browser windows count as a single entry; App Exposé opens up the app you already have in front of you.

Turn it on in System Settings → Trackpad → More Gestures, right next to Mission Control — one swipe up, the other down.

The two are complements, not rivals. Mission Control is everything you have open; App Exposé is one app at a time. When you are lost inside a browser with a dozen windows, the second one gets you out much faster.


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