Editing Mission Control (macOS) (section)

== Changes in Mission Control ==
{{see also|Apple keyboard#Usage of function keys}}
When Exposé first premiered in 2003, it could be controlled using the F9, F10 and F11 keys.

The Exposé shortcut keys were moved to the F3 key to make room for the "rewind", "play/pause" and "fast forward" keys. On Mac keyboards made after 2004, Exposé can be activated by using the F3 key or in combination with the command key, or on the trackpad of Macbooks supporting multi-touch interface. (However, F9, F10 and F11 can still be used for controlling Exposé with the [[Fn key|function modifier key]], or by enabling the "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" setting.)

On [[OS X Snow Leopard|Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard]], Exposé featured a new organized grid view and allowed users to activate Exposé from the Dock.

In [[Mac OS X 10.7 | Mac OS X 10.7 Lion]], some features of [[Dashboard (macOS)|Dashboard]], Exposé, and [[Spaces (software)|Spaces]] were incorporated into Mission Control. This gave an overview of all running applications just like "All windows" but grouped windows from the same application, and added a display of Spaces. Desktop view and application window view were retained, the latter under the name of App Exposé, and could be accessed through gestures on multi-touch trackpads.

Some users criticised Mission Control in [[Mac OS X 10.7 | Mac OS X 10.7 Lion]] for not offering an unobscured "Exposé" view of all the windows in single workspace: windows of the same application are always hidden in bundles. This issue was fixed in [[OS X 10.8|Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion]], however, with a checkbox in the System Settings pane allowing a user to choose whether to group windows of the same application. Some features of Exposé and Spaces from [[OS X Snow Leopard|OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard]] did not return, however: it does not show the names of the windows displayed, nor does it return the added functionality provided by [[Mac OS X 10.5|Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard]] multiple desktops feature, known as "Spaces," which allowed users to drag and drop windows between desktops with a single click, and also allowed for larger thumbnail previews of each desktop in a 2D grid when in use.<ref name="exposemissionreplace">{{cite web | url=http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/mac-os-x-lion-and-mission-control/ | title=OS X Lion and Mission Control | publisher=[[AOL]] | work=The Unofficial Apple Weblog | date=July 20, 2012 | access-date=April 11, 2012 | author=Caolo, Dave}}</ref>

In [[OS X Mavericks]], the linen-texture background in Mission Control has been changed into a dark-grey background, as a part of moving away from [[Skeuomorph|skeuomorphism]].

In [[OS X Yosemite]], the dark-grey background has been replaced with a translucent background, lightly showing the desktop's background and the desktop no longer zooms out.

In [[OS X El Capitan]], the grouped window by app view has been changed into ungrouped windows view by default and the translucent background has been changed to it being transparent that fully shows the desktop's background.

In [[macOS Catalina]], [[Dashboard (macOS)|Dashboard]] has been discontinued, therefore removing Dashboard from view permanently (if it was previously activated) in Mission Control.