You can shrink all sorts of windows into the Dock from different apps. You can click on it and it brings it back. Now what this does when I click it by default is it seems to shrink the window into the Dock and you can see a little icon version of the window in the Dock here. As a matter of fact if you use Minimize you'll see this yellow button flash. You know it's called that because if we go to the window menu the command Minimize is equivalent to this. This little yellow button here is what I'm talking about. There are better ways to do it.So first let's look at what this button does. But it really is an antiquated technique to hide a window. I still see Mac users doing this all the time. The one thing I never do is click the little yellow button at the top left hand corner of a window. I do all sorts of things with all sorts of different apps.

I write, I make videos, I develop apps, I develop websites. Join us and get exclusive content at /patreon.So I use my Macs 60+ hours a week. On this episode I'm going to show you why you never need to use the yellow minimize button to hide windows.MacMost is brought to you thanks to a fantastic group of supporters. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Today using tabs in windows and autosave to easily quit and relaunch apps means you should rarely need the minimize button.

Hidden apps can be quickly and easy brough back and you won't clutter your Dock with minimized windows. In most cases, it is more efficient to use the Hide command to simply hide the app. Many people overuse the minimize button to get applications and windows out of the way.

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