If you continue to have trouble with the shortcut, or you’d rather have more general display options visible from anywhere, you can use a free third party utility that adds the Displays menu bar item back to Mac OS X. Unless the Mac supports the same resolution, that’s hard to avoid with those screen types, but old fashioned CRT’s and any projector should be immune from those effects.ĭo note that some Macs and keyboard layouts may require the usage of ALT+Command+F1 to get the Mirror toggle to work. This means that some external displays, typically LED, LCD, and HDTV’s, will often not run at their native resolution, which leads to fuzzy looking images on that external display as it mirrors the native resolution from the Mac. Something to consider with screen Mirroring is the resolution of the external display, which is often different from the resolution set on a MacBook Pro or Air. If the shortcuts below don’t work as you expect, look in the app menus in the menu bar to see the correct shortcuts.
Note: Keyboard shortcuts in apps may vary depending on the language and keyboard layout you’re using on your Mac.
You can press Option + Shift + K to insert Apple logo in Pages, Keynote and Numbers. In app menus, keyboard shortcuts are represented by symbols.
Use this the next time you need to do a presentation, or watch a movie on a bigger screen, it’s super fast. Apple offers a hidden keyboard shortcut in macOS. This command works with quite literally any Mac, whether a MacBook Pro, Air, iMac, whether it’s using a built-in or external keyboard, and with any connected secondary display, from an external monitor, a TV, a projector, Apple TV through AirPlay Mirroring, whatever. You can personalize the appearance of this icon like any other icon on the desktop. An alias is a tiny file with the same icon as the parent file it links to. Apple introduced the alias to serve as a shortcut before Microsoft with the launch of the Mac OS 7 in 1991. In the list on the right, select the checkbox next to the shortcut that you want to change. In the list on the left, select a category, such as Mission Control or Spotlight. On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Shortcuts. In order for this shortcut to work you will need an external display of any sort attached, then once hit hit Command+F1 you will see both displays briefly flicker bright blue and suddenly mirroring will be enabled. The term desktop shortcut is a more familiar term to Windows users. You can customize some keyboard shortcuts by changing the key combinations.