![]() Press and hold Control, Option, and Shift for seven seconds, then hold the power button to turn off the MacBook. If you own an Intel MacBook, a special keyboard combination is required. On Apple Silicon Macs, simply plug it into power and restart the Mac to reset the SMC. Since Hot Corners are related to the Screen Saver and Sleep, the SMC might be preventing normal operation of this feature. Step 2: If multiple monitors are not causing the problem, you might need to reset the system management controller (SMC), which controls how your Mac manages power. That means when you move the pointer to the other display, it might appear to jump instead of transitioning smoothly. The trade-off is that the extra monitor's physical location might not match where MacOS thinks it is. If a corner of the main screen extends beyond the corner of the other display, you'll be able to use that Hot Corner on both the primary and secondary screen. Step 1: Open the Displays pane of MacOS' System Preferences and drag the position of the secondary display so it isn't exactly aligned with the primary display. In other cases, the power management system needs to be reset to clear the problem. For example the left Hot Corners might behave normally but when you move to the right corner or edge, the pointer appears on the extended second screen. In this mode, MacOS treats the two screens as a single large display and that means some Hot Corners might be located on the secondary monitor. In most cases, this is because one or more extra monitors are connected and setup as an Extended display. Sometimes your Mac's Hot Corners might not work as expected. What if your Mac's Hot Corners don't work? It's like being able to reach behind other windows to drop almost anywhere. If a Hot Corner is set to Desktop, Mission Control, or Application Windows, dragging to that corner shows those locations as a drop zone. This makes MacOS’ drag and drop much more powerful. Rather than rearranging to place the source and destination side by side, you can use Hot Corners. This saves a huge amount of time and effort if you often have several overlapping windows open. You can use Hot Corners when dragging text, files, or images to another window. Use MacOS' Hot Corners for easier drag and drop You have to push all the way into the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, or bottom-right corners to trigger the action. Don't worry about this interfering with normal usage since getting close isn't enough. You can activate any of the actions assigned to a Hot Corner by moving the pointer into a corner. I don’t want a touchscreen MacBook, but this feature could convince me ![]() Here’s why Apple’s M3 MacBook chip could destroy its rivals There are also two app launch options, one that opens Launchpad to see a list of all apps, and Quick Note, which opens a small window for notes. You might want to instantly put the display to sleep or lock the screen of your Mac with a Hot Corner. You can set a Mac's Hot Corner to control the screen saver, starting it without waiting several minutes for it to come on or disabling it when you're reading. Any corner can be set to open Mission Control, which shows all open apps Application Windows, the windows of the current app the Notification Center or the Desktop. Step 2: Choose one of MacOS' Hot Corner menus to show a list of actions. If any Hot Corners are already assigned, the currently selected actions will appear beside the corner that activates them. If Hot Corners are disabled, you will see four menus with hyphens surrounding a tiny Mac display and positioned beside each corner. ![]() Step 1: To enable Hot Corners, open System Preferences and type "Hot Corners" in the search box at the upper right or open the Desktop & Screen Saver pane, select Screen Saver, and open Hot Corners options by using the button at the lower-right. Opening Launchpad, creating a Quick Note, putting the display to sleep, and more can be done simply by using a Mac's mouse or MacBook's trackpad to slide the pointer to a corner. There are four Hot Corners and 10 possible actions for each corner along with the option to disable a corner. On a Mac, the term Hot Corners means something special happens when moving the pointer into a corner of the screen.
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