A handy feature of macOS Mojave is Stacks, or ‘stacks’, as Apple calls it in Dutch. With this option, you can clean up any cluttered desktop at once. This is how you use the feature.
macOS Mojave Stacks: This is how it works
You’ve probably experienced it once: you don’t clean up your desktop of your Mac (Book) for a while, and the screen is full of documents, images, screenshots, folders and other files. You can clean them up manually, but with the Stacks function in the new macOS Mojave it is automatic. File types are automatically placed together in folders, so that you get the overview back in one go. This is how it works.
- If you have macOS Mojave installed, minimize your apps and go to the desktop;
- Click on ‘View’ in the menu bar at the top and choose ‘Use stacks’;
- You will see all files are collected and appear in small stacks on the right side of the screen.
Although files are put together, they are not really folders that you see. If you click on a stack, all individual screenshots (or other files) will be displayed again. This makes it easy to find and share something. Your files will be stacked on top of each other again when you click on that Stack again.
Sort and group stacks
You have several options to determine exactly what stacks are selected for. For example, if you do not want all images together, but Stacks are collected based on the date of addition, you can indicate this. Click with your right mouse button on your desktop and choose ‘Sort stacks by’. You also have these options if you want to group stacks in a different way, at ‘Group stacks by’.
Start using macOS Mojave
Although macOS Mojave will not be officially released until later this year, you can already get started with the update. Recently, Apple released the public Mojave beta, which allows anyone to install the latest version. Keep in mind that this is a test version and it still contains bugs and other errors. Also check first if your device supports macOS 10.14 Mojave.
→ Want to know more about the new features? Then read our macOS Mojave preview