How to Use Hot Corner on Mac

This updated guide examines How to Use Hot Corner on Mac and organizes the essential facts, background, and practical takeaways in clear American English.

How to set up hot corner to enable screen saver

1. From the Apple menu, select System Preferences.

2. Click Desktop and Screen Saver.

3. Click the Screen Saver tab .

4. Click Hot Corners.

5. In the page that appears, click on any menu that appears and select Start Screen Saver .

Now, when you move the cursor to the selected corner, the screen saver you select will quickly and easily begin. This is quite handy, as it can help prevent screen image retention.

As you can see from the hot corner pop-up menu, there's more to do than just activate the screen saver with a hot corner. In fact, you can even set the same action in many hot corners. So if you want to enable the screen saver when you move the cursor to any of the 4 hot corners, feel free to do what you want.

How to request a password to unlock screen saver

If you set the security system option to require a password to unlock the screen saver, you can turn on the screen saver when you leave the Mac, to ensure that the content in it is protected from prying eyes. Here's how:

1. From the Apple menu, select System Preferences.

2. Click Security and Privacy.

3. Click the General tab .

4. Check the Require password box and set the time from the pop-up menu.

Hot tips with hot corner

Let's say you're trying to click on a menu or press an icon near one of the corners of the screen, but the usual accuracy disappoints you. You accidentally touched a hot corner with your cursor and suddenly, the screen saver started working, requiring you to unlock to get back to work.

Fortunately, there's a hidden feature in hot corners that helps solve this common problem.

While opening one of the hot corner pop-up menus, hold downCommand,Options,ControlorShift(or even use many of these) to request that key (s) (plus the scrolling action). cursor to the corner of the screen) activates the screen saver. This pop-up menu will change to reflect the additional key you selected.

And now, instead of just a quick mouse movement, the action will be performed more intentionally, by pressing a key on the keyboard to activate the screen saver.