| Tip 305 | Know Which Apps Are Hidden in the Dock |
There are two ways to send app windows to the Dock on your Mac: minimizing and hiding.
The biggest difference between the two is that minimized app program windows are visibly shrunk to an icon on the right side of the Dock, while hidden program windows simply disappear from the screen and can be brought back to view by clicking their Dock icon (that is to say, they don’t shrink to an icon on the right side of the Dock).
Additionally, individual app windows can be minimized, but when hiding an app, all its windows are hidden. You can’t hide a single app window.
To minimize a program window, click the button on the program’s title bar, or hit Command+M. To hide an app’s windows, click the Hide option ...
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