How to use Stage Manager on a Mac in macOS Ventura

Setting the stage for your apps

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Stage Manager is a new way of organizing your Mac’s open windows inmacOS Ventura. With it active, one window stays prominently in the center of your screen, while your other apps are shuffled into an organized sidebar on the left-hand side of your display.

You can also group apps together so you have everything right where you need it. Put it to use and it can help you declutter your desktop for improved productivity.

With macOS Ventura available for certain Macs, you can try out Stage Manager right now and see if it benefits your workflow.

Stage Manager also comes with a bunch of nifty features and clever tricks, and by the end of this tutorial, you should be able to use the feature like a pro to ramp up your macOS workflow for good.

Tools and requirements

Steps

Final Thoughts

While macOS Ventura hasn’t been out for long so far, Stage Manager has a few odd quirks. For one thing, you can’t rearrange the apps in the sidebar on the left, nor can you right-click them to close them or access other options.

Still, Stage Manager is an excellent addition to macOS, and gives you another option when it comes to managing your Mac windows. We’re looking forward to seeing whetherApplerefines it further in the next few months.

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Alex Blake has been fooling around with computers since the early 1990s, and since that time he’s learned a thing or two about tech. No more than two things, though. That’s all his brain can hold. As well as TechRadar, Alex writes for iMore, Digital Trends and Creative Bloq, among others. He was previously commissioning editor at MacFormat magazine. That means he mostly covers the world of Apple and its latest products, but also Windows, computer peripherals, mobile apps, and much more beyond. When not writing, you can find him hiking the English countryside and gaming on his PC.

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