Macos – How to switch back to previous window on OS X

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As a long time Windows users I'm used to switch between two windows using keyboard. Now at Mac I just can't figure out how to do that!

Command-Tab works nicely between apps, but how to do the same within one application having several windows open? Especially when using XCode? For example within Firefox you can do control-tab and control-shift-tab to navigate between tabs. Doesn't work with XCode, not between two different open projects.

Doing 4-fingers-down, looking at screen, finding the previous window and clicking on it with mouse takes waaaay too long time. It interrupts whatever I was doing, distracts from whatever I was thinking about and starts annoying me – enough to write this desperate call for help in StackOverflow 🙂

There's got to be a secret handsha… keyboard combination!

Best Answer

Before this is moved to superuser, the shortcut you're looking for is command-`

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