Command-Space bar is the system default for opening Spotlight, and typing the name of a pane-usually just the first few letters-gives you a list of options, including the preference pane. Use Spotlight to jump directly to specific panes using only the keyboard.(A tip at the end of this article explains how.) Put an icon for a specific pane in your Dock clicking it opens System Preferences to that pane.If the System Preferences icon is in your Dock, press (click-and-hold, rather than just click) it, and choose the pane you want from the menu.This trick also works with the Touch Bar. If an item has a dedicated function key-as do volume control and screen brightness, for instance-press Option and the function key to go to its preference pane.If the item has a status menu on the menu bar, choose Open Preferences from its menu.You can jump directly to a specific pane without first opening System Preferences itself, although the first two options here are limited to only a handful of panes: (System Preferences isn’t on your Dock? See the tip at the end of this article.) Or, use a keyboard shortcut to open it, as described below. To open System Preferences, you can choose Apple > System Preferences or click its icon on the Dock. Open System Preferences and Preference Panes And that Search field is more useful than you might expect. You don’t always have to start with the full window, click a preference pane, and then click a tab to get where you want to be. You don’t, for instance, need 30-plus items displayed when you use only a dozen of them regularly. System Preferences is easy to use: open it, click here, click there-whoops, not there, over here instead… wait, where is that setting? My point is: System Preferences could be easier to use. #1604: Universal Control how-to, show proxy icons in Monterey, Eat Your Books cookbook index.#1605: OS updates with security and bug fixes, April Fools article retrospective, Audio Hijack 4, 5G home Internet.#1606: Apple's self-sabotaging App Store policies, edit Slack messages easily, WWDC 2022 dates.#1607: TidBITS 32nd anniversary, moving from 1Password to KeePass, pasting plain text, Mail fixes anchor links, RIP Eolake.#1608: How to test Internet responsiveness, Wordle takeoffs, understand cryptocurrency.
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