Comments on: Toggle Full Screen Mode with a Keyboard Shortcut in Mac OS X

By: 9 Tricks to Ease a Cluttered Mac Desktop & Maintain Focus

9 Tricks to Ease a Cluttered Mac Desktop & Maintain Focus — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:32:15 +0000

[...] If all you need to do is work in a single app, make use of the newer Full Screen feature of OS X. Send whatever app deserves your unrestrained focus into Full Screen mode by clicking the arrow icons in the corner of the app window or by assigning the feature it’s very own keyboard shortcut. [...]

By: 7 Simple Window Management Keyboard Shortcuts to Improve Workflow in Mac OS X

7 Simple Window Management Keyboard Shortcuts to Improve Workflow in Mac OS X — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:12:05 +0000

[...] this one isn’t working for you, you may need to set the Full Screen toggle shortcut manually [...]

By: mia

mia — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:53:23 +0000

control+comman+f = full screen mode.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:11:15 +0000

This was very helpful. You are a life saver.

By: zack

zack — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:53:40 +0000

just as an FYI, if you use the wording “Toggle Full Screen” it will do the same thing without having to put in an entry for Enter and Exit.

By: Sumit Gupta

Sumit Gupta — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:10:22 +0000

Great tutorial, command plus escape works. Thanks for sharing

By: Go Full Screen with Safari on iPhone & iPod touch to See More While Browsing the Web

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:26:41 +0000

[...] Mac users, you’ll find Safari’s full screen mode is a lot like taking apps full screen in OS X Lion onward, which can be a great way to maximize the screen real estate on portable Macs with [...]

By: me

me — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 07:31:27 +0000

It seems in Mountain Lion the default shortcut to toggle fullscreen mode is [control] + [command] + F, no need to setup anything to have it working.

By: [anonymous]

[anonymous] — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:14:54 +0000

I like to use Command+X because I always want everything in full screen, and to me it seems like the easiest shortcut known because the keys are right above one another. I am surprised Apple did not set this as the X button shortcut.

By: Jimpithecus

Jimpithecus — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:10:37 +0000

Firefox 14 will not do this and the “fix” listed above does not work nohow on my 10.7.4 machine.

By: aj

aj — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:32:00 +0000

+1 for awesomeness. I had to use the [control]+[command]+F keyboard combo to get it to work.

By: jbald

jbald — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:38:36 +0000

A good one to use with newer apple keyboards is F5 or F6 as these have no assigned function unlike the other function keys ex. F3= Mission Control. IMO apple should have included the fullscreen function here stock

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:35:43 +0000

Control + Escape also works on MacBook Pro 2012.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:38:32 +0000

Command-Control-Return worked fine for me. Thanks for the tip – clicking that icon to do this is time-consuming and, well, requires the mouse.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:43:55 +0000

Command + control + f worked for me but Command + Escape did not. MacBook Pro 13″ new in Jan 2012.