Essential Apple User Magazine

For the Mac – macOS Ventura

Stage Manager

When working on your Mac, you often have a lot of open windows. This can lead to a messy, confusing and sometimes overwhelming desktop. Stage Manager is a new way to organise and access these open windows.

Stage Manager lets you focus on the app you’re currently using without being distracted by open windows from apps you’re not. Activated from the Control Centre, it groups windows initially on a per-app basis and sends open windows as bundles to the side of the screen. Opening a new app brings it to the centre of the desktop, and the one you were previously using joins those on the side of the screen. Clicking on an already-open app that sits aside the screen also brings it to the fore, with the previously centred app moved to the side. If an app has more than one open window, the top one in the side pile is centred. You can toggle through them by clicking on the app’s pile again.

You can group apps in Stage Manager, so if (for example) you want a map

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