Now it doesn't say anything here about Safari so this must work in other apps, right? Well, it does but it's pretty limited. So you could basically use these two fingers on the trackpad to do it, use these buttons, or the keyboard shortcut. Forward is Command and the right square bracket.

Under History Back is Command and the left square bracket. So you could basically use the back button instead, if you like. I'm going to use two fingers and go from left to right and you can see it basically goes back to the previous page and loads that in. So, for instance, let's go into Safari here. So what does this do? Well this works in some apps to scroll between pages. So when I change it to three fingers you're going to see a three finger preview there. They'll change if you change the option here. So you can just basically follow along with what's on here. You always get these handy little previews over here that show you exactly what the gesture is like.

If I turn that on I get the option to scroll left or right with two fingers, three fingers, or either two or three fingers. I've turned them all off here so we can go through them one-by-one. More Gestures is where it gets interesting as there is a bunch of extra stuff some of which will be on by default. So you're going to see different things if you're using an older system or trackpad.īut the Point and Click and Scroll and Zoom categories are pretty basic. Now these screens have all changed as trackpads have evolved and Macs have evolved through each operating system. Here you're going to see various categories at the top. All you need to do is go to the Apple Menu and then System Preferences and then Trackpad. So it's really easy to see where gestures are available on your trackpad. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of supporters. It's pretty easy if you look in System Preferences. But have you taken the time to learn what they are. If you're a trackpad user like me, and most MacBook users are by default, then you probably know there's some special gestures you can use to control your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Learning To Use Mac Trackpad Gestures at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

Mac trackpad gestures