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Mission Control (macOS)

Mission Control (macOS)

Mission Control is a feature of the macOSoperating system. Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces were combined and renamed Mission Control in 2011 with the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Exposé was first previewed on June 23, 2003, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference as a feature of the then forthcoming Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

Mission Control allows a user to do the following:

  • View all open application windows
  • View all open application windows of a specific application
  • Hide all application windows and show the desktop
  • Manage application windows across multiple monitors
  • Manage application windows across multiple virtual desktops