FYI; Hot Corners is in two places

[Rod]

I'm guessing a lot of people already know this but for those of you who don't I recently became aware that there are two places for Hot Corners in System Settings. There is the Accessibility Settings panel:

Which also comes up under Keyboard Settings and this one:



The above is in Desktop and Dock Settings as displayed. If you want to use Mission Control ,as I do in the example directly above, this is the one you want.

The top example is for head or eye tracking and if you didn't bother to read all of the text about this accessibility function first, like me, you may have wondered why it didn't work.

 

[toMACsh]

Well, I just spent about 10 minutes looking for that first panel. I found a button for Keyboard under Accessibility, and there a Keyboard Settings button, which switches you to the "main" Keyboard panel. I do not see the words Hot Corners anywhere in these panels.

I'm using 14.6

 

[Rod]

Try just searching for Hot Corners in Preferences. In the older macOS's it used to be in the energy settings for Screen Saver. There was a button which took you to Hot Corners. The principal is the same for all. I've been using it for Mission Control (at least) for 5 years or more.

 

[toMACsh]

Yeah, on my Mac, it's a button at the bottom of Desktop & Dock. As far as I know, this is the only way to access Hot Corners.

 

[Rod]

Sorry I guess I should have added "currently" to my post heading. There was only one way to access Hot Corners prior to the current macOS, that's why I wrote the post.

 

[toMACsh]

I cannot bring up the Hot Corners panel from the Keyboard panel in 14.6

How do you get there? It's bugging me that you see that and I can't. Unless it was only added in 14.6.1…

 

[Jimmysb]

You need to search "hot corners" I could not see it otherwise.

 

[Rod]

In fact I just put "Hot" in the search bar myself. You should see two instances; one in Desktop & Dock (that's the one you need) the other is for eye or head movement (dwelling) in Accessibility.
The function is not new, it's been around for years, what has changed is the addition of the function for accessibility. I made the mistake of setting it up there and couldn't understand why it didn't work with the track pad which led me to discover it was in two places.

 

[Rod]

In addition; having Mission Control in a Hot Corner is invaluable on a Mac Book of any size, much more so I have found than simply having MC on the Dock because in some cases you may not have access to the Dock eg. in some games that use Apple's new Game Mode or using some emulators.

Either way once you start using it the ease with which you can access multiple open windows and desktops, drag app windows from desktop to desktop and more will I'm sure greatly improve your workflow and enable you to use maximum sized windows for every app, no more reducing the window size to see the Desktop or the open window behind.

There is another benefit that will appeal to some, Quick Notes is allocated a Hot Corner by default. This can be a real annoyance for those who access their Trash bin a lot because dragging your cursor to the bottom right will bring up QN's first. In Hot Corners you can remove this if, like me, you don't use it much.

Obviously there are lots of ways of doing the same things on a Mac and you may be happy with your current setup but I do encourage people to at least try this option, personally I couldn't live without it.

 

[toMACsh]

Ah! Now I see it. Strange that a search is the only way to see the Accessibility Hot Corners pane.