![]() ![]() Run an experiment on a regular user and see if they can discover how to get back this second minimised window. The only way to get back to this secret minimised window is to activate App Expose or right-click the dock icon to bring up the list of windows. Only the most recently minimised window will be re-activated after clicking the dock icon for that application, any subsequent clicks on the icon do nothing, and there is no feedback to the user that there are other minimised windows. Sounds great, however, this option provides much worse functionality: Within System Settings, the ‘Minimise windows into application icon’ is the more pleasing option that stops your dock filling up with successively smaller previews of minimised windows. ![]() Let’s also briefly discuss minimising to the dock. Windows 7 solved this in 2009 by showing taskbar window previews when hovering over an icon. Most people would prefer a simple visual preview hover of open windows as opposed to reading titles or performing trackpad gestures. You can induce App Expose from a dock icon by using a trackpad gesture, but as mentioned earlier, this more advanced technique should not be acceptable as the only solution to this. More so, this only shows a list of windows with no visual preview. ![]() There is still no way to easily see open application windows from the dock without first right-clicking or long pressing an icon. Since the introduction of OS X, the dock has stayed relatively unchanged in functionality. macOS feels slower than the competition, such as Windows 11 or various distributions of Linux. Unfortunately, these tools have not been easily discoverable or intuitive to non-technical or new users. New productivity functionality on macOS has historically been introduced behind increasingly undiscoverable or complex tools like multi-finger gestures, holding modifier keys to access alternatives, or relying on hot corners.
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