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This article will show you how to use Hot Corners on iPhone, iPad and Mac. When you use Hot Corners on Apple device for the first time, you might wonder why you didn’t use them sooner. For those who don’t know about Hot Corners, when you move your mouse to a spot on your screen, different things happen. This will help you get more done. Most of us use the same few tools on our iPhones most of the time.
We’ll chat and call our friends on WhatsApp, or we might look at Instagram and other social media sites. We could also watch whole movies on our phones or tablets if we wanted to. But if we only use the functions we know how to use, we might not be getting the most out of our gadgets.
If you want to know more information about this Visit Official Apple Support site. Hot Corners is a feature that you should check out. It makes many parts of our iPhones easier to get to. There is a way for iPad users who want to use Hot Corners to do so. This can make your work easy and help you get the most out of your device.
How to use Hot Corners on iPhone, iPad
Set up Hot Corners
- Open the Settings app and go to Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch.
- Enable AssistiveTouch.
- Scroll down and enable Dwell Control.
- Tap Hot Corners and select one of the four corners – Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right.
- You’ll see many options, from opening your Dock to restarting your iPhone or iPad to accessing Spotlight. Choose the actions you want for the selected corner.
Use Hot Corners
After you set up the Hot Corners, just move the mouse or trackpad pointer to the corner of the screen where you want to do the action you chose. Keep the pointer in that corner, and your iPad’s set Hot Corner motion will start right away.
You can change the amount of time you have to keep your cursor in place for the Hot Corners if you don’t like Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch. Right below that setting, change the Dwell Control time using the plus and minus buttons for the number of seconds.
How to use Hot Corners on Mac
Hot Corners has moved to the “Desktop and Dock” area for a change. Even though the move makes sense, it will likely cause some uncertainty.
- On your Mac running macOS Ventura, open the System Settings app. Or, hit the Apple menu icon at the upper left corner of the screen and choose System Settings in the contextual menu.
- In the System Settings menu, choose the Desktop & Dock section.
- Scroll all the way to the bottom of the screen and choose Hot Corners at the bottom right corner of the screen.
- Now, click on each corner and choose the function you want to use. For example, you can turn on Launchpad by dragging the mouse pointer to the bottom left corner, and you can turn on the screen saver by dragging the mouse pointer to the top right corner. Here’s a list of the things you can do with the Hot Corners:
- Mission Control
- Application Windows
- Desktop
- Notification Centre
- Launchpad
- Quick Note
- Lock Screen
- Start Screen Saver
- Disable Screen Saver
- Put Display to Sleep
- Once you’re happy with how the hot corners look, click “Done” to confirm the changes. Your changes to this feature will take action as soon as you save them. So, you can start using it to turn on your favorite features.
- Later, if you want to make changes to Hot Corners, head into the same Desktop & Dock section and tweak everything in line with your preference.
FAQs
A common way to fix problems is to close and restart the app or feature that isn’t working right. Since Hot Corners aren’t working well, you can turn them off, restart your Mac, and then turn them back on using the steps below: Go to Apple > System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver from the menu. Hot Corners is the link.
If your iPhone’s Hot Corners don’t work, your Movement Tolerance radius may be too small. You can make changes pretty quickly if you find that this is the case. To change your Movement Tolerance, follow the steps below.