How to quickly minimize application windows on your Mac with a double-click

Did you know that you can quickly minimize application windows on your Mac with a double-click?

By default, double-clicking on an application's title bar (top) will make it bigger (by increasing its height or maximising it) and doing it again, will revert it to its previous size:

If you'd rather minimise your application windows:

  1. Open System Preferences or System Settings

  2. Click on 'Dock & Menu Bar'

  3. Under "Double-click a window's title bar to" select 'minimise' instead of 'zoom'

Here's a screenshot for macOS 13 Ventura:

And another screenshot for macOS 12 Monterey or earlier:

After activating 'Minimise', double-clicking on an application window's title bar will make it disappear from the screen:

And you, how often do you double-click on the title bar of your application windows?


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