Someone asked me what the keyboard shortcut to get to task manager was in macOS was the other day and I couldn’t tell him. Even though I regularly use macOS Sierra, I couldn’t for the life of me remember the shortcut. In fact, I couldn’t remember many shortcuts at all. That’s what this post is about. A list of popular Mac shortcuts that many of you will know but some of you won’t. Also see our article First, let us correct one glaring error.
Mac doesn’t have a Task Manager, it has Activity Monitor. Task Manager is for Windows. Mac uses the very tidy Activity Monitor app and while it does much the same thing, is very different to Task Manager. Many Windows switchers still call it Task Manager, but it isn’t. To answer the initial headline question, what is the shortcut key to access Activity Monitor on a Mac? Command + Spacebar. If you’re new to Mac, Command is the ‘⌘’ key which is only found on Apple keyboards.
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Other common keyboard shortcuts for Mac Keyboard shortcuts in Mac are the same as for Windows. You hold down the first key in the sequence and then hit the second and sometimes third keys to complete the command.
So to access Activity Monitor, you hold down the Command key and hit Spacebar. Some of the more common keyboard shortcuts for Mac are the same in Windows. For example: • Command-X – Cut whatever is selected and copy it to the Clipboard. • Command-C – Copy whatever is selected to the Clipboard.