Update: Apple added the ability to create a keyboard shortcut to turn on and off Stage Manager. Go to System Settings, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts (button), and look under Mission Control.

Before this video, I thought the stage manager was useless, but after watching the video, I realized it was a must-have feature for me. Thank you .

No one does tutorials better than you. Your contribution is very much appreciated.

This is the first time I’ve seen Stage Manager properly showcased and for the first time, I can see how useful it would be once you get used to it. Every other tech review I’ve seen has simply given it a “meh” rating and not bothered to explore it in detail like you have, Gary. Thanks again for an insightful and valuable video! 😊

By the way: Nobody explains like you do. You are amazing. Thank you.

So many tech reviewers seem to have overlooked Stage Manager, but honestly your tutorial has made this feature a real game changer when I'm working on my 13" MacBook Air - such a great way to optimise screen space! Thanks so much for this in-depth video!

You are amazing, Gary! Thank you for putting in countless hours every day to help us with our Apple products. Your tutelage has proven to be invaluable!

Once again, Apple should just link to your video for explanation of stage manager! Thank you Sir!

A wonderful, clear, comprehensive tutorial on a complex innovation in Ventura OS. Massive thanks for that, Gary. As always, you've knocked it out of the park.

Thanks bunches. I updated the version late last night so I did not get much of a chance to use stage manager. All day a work today I was writing down questions which I was going to send to you...and as always you came through with the necessary answers. A super great video which I will need to watch several times. Your knowledge and willingness to help others is greatly appreciated.

WOW! Tremendous video tutorial on a new feature that looks waaaaay more complex than ANYTHING we've seen in an OS! I really am going to have to use this tutorial for a long time til I get it straight. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH. Very comprehensive, only seen other reviewers brush through this new feature - you've done a masterful job...........

Super helpful - there's no way I could make a video like that without having to divide it into bits - you're amazing. Thanks for your hard work.

When they first announced Stage Manager, I was a bit sceptical about it's usefulness, but seeing this video with all the inner workings, all I can say is... WOW. Can't wait until I update to Ventura.

Great video! Thank you for explaining Stage Manager in such a clear way! I also discovered that if you want to bring an item back onto the Stage where another app already is present, all you need to do is hold down the "shift key". The Shift key will add your minimized app onto your currently visible Stage.

Thank you Gary. I signed up for the new Ventura coarse on Macmost and so glad I did. I learned a lot more and learning from you is a bonus. Thanks for all that you do for the lay people whose lives you touch.

Excellent video... really helpful and well done! I like your clear and concise explanations, delivery pace and keyboard symbols illustrated. You got a new subscriber, looking forward to more videos.

I cannot believe I only just found your channel - I have learnt more about our iMac in a week than I have in the five years of owning Macs...! Bravo Gary, you rock!

Wonderfully explained, and I am so happy the "one window at a time" setting exists! Thanks for sharing

Been loving stage manager since release, you introduced me to somethings I didnt know and made my workflow so much better. Thank you! We appreciate you

Wow, thank you for this video. Very comprehensive and easy to follow and understand and seemingly quite thorough and complete. I only have an iPad Pro 12.9” but have just switched this on because I got tired of how the multitasking worked prior to this where switching to another app would basically “reset” and relaunch another app like KZfaq unless I used split screen, which was annoying. This is not only a huge improvement for the iPad, but seeing how fully fleshed out this is, this looks like a real game changing feature! I’m getting more and more sold on the Mac every day and will get one eventually, but wow are Apple really digging deep into how to improve usability and productivity! Microsoft has some great stuff, too, but they just don’t have Apple’s knack for hitting home runs or filling the bases very often. This is exciting!

Thanks for the updated indepth video on Stage Manager. Your video was what made me try out the Beta and I REALLY loved the new window manager. Video was a good review of the setting itself as well as it’s benefits.

Great overview. I was struggling with this this morning and now you cleared up so much. Thx.

It's all those little tips and tricks which many overlook that makes your videos so helpful! Thanks, man.

thank you so much for breaking this down! Every other video/article i read about this only confused me more

Best and most thorough overview of Stage Manager I've seen. You sold me!

Thanks for another great video Gary! Your videos have really helped me a lot to become extremely productive on my Mac. I recently switched to Mac after working on many other computers for the past 40 years.

Absolutely brilliant illustration, thank you so much, I’m gonna spend countless hours playing and pausing your videos whilst trying them out on my Mac 🤩

Dude.. this tutorial is FANTASTIC! I almost never take the time to comment on videos, but this is well deserved. Keep up the great work!

This is the best explanation of the Stage Manager I found, comprehensive, insightful. I was struggling with it, this video will make me love Stage Manager again. And yeah, I subscribed! 😊

Thank you for the video. This helped to a clear understanding on how to use it.

Great tutorial. As a new user transferred from window, I straight up using stage manager at the beginning, so it becomes muscle memory to use stage manager. I put the dock to the left, and hide the recent app from the stage manager. When I need switching between apps, I just put the mouse to the left side of the screen, and show the recents app from stage manager, or I could just laugh the app from the dock instead. Using spotlight to launch app is also convenient. The best thing from stage manager is that it let me to return to homepage by clicking an empty space. In window, I used to swipe three fingers down to minimise all app, and now stage manager help me to achieve the same function. The most frustrating thing is that closing an app in Mac took a few more steps, or need to use command Q short cut. After a week of using the Mac, I understand that quitting apps actually slow down the computer, as launching an app is uses more resources than keeping it in the background, at least for Mac OS. Now, I put my Mac to sleep and never shut it down, except for system update.Ans on the next day, everything just work. No loading, no crashing, just work. Now, my swap memory usage is about 700MB, and my daily write on ssd is about 24-30GB, so my 225GB ssd will still last for very long time. I am very impress with the Mac computer. Looking back, I think my i7 16GB ram window laptop works faster than the M1 Mac in opening apps, and there are more gesture to use in window, and personally, I think window gesture are more intuitive to use. However, switching between app in Mac, feels so good, and snappy, and is a completely new experience for me. May be I have used the computer wrong the whole time, that I need to close an application and shut down the window pc every time. To conclude, the stage manager is surprisingly great, and as a new Mac user, it makes Mac OS a snappier, quicker, more user friendly experience than pc in terms of switching between application.

This is the video that made it all make sense. I went back to the dock and then this video got me using stagemanager and it really has made me more productive! Thanks Gary!

hey just wanted to pop in and say this is an amazing video. i didn’t get how stage manager worked, so i kinda gave up on it. felt like spaces was enough for my workflow. your video showed me how to use stage manager, so i’m def gonna use it asap. thanks!

Best Stage Manager overview I have found on the internet. Gary you are the MAC GOD!

I love watching your tutorials. Great work, man!

5:40 was the exact nugget of info that I was looking for. When you drag an app out of a minimized app set, the last top-most window is the one you get. Thank you!

Excellent. I often have multiple apps and windows open at the same time. Stage Manager helps me navigate more effectively. Thanks.

Your videos are so well explained ....Always prefer to see yours first than maybe others.

Very detailed and useful for my usage. Thanks man

You and your channel is essential in this universe. We honestly can't do without. Thank ya, bud.

I really enjoy your videos Gary! keep up the goodwork, and thanks for this in depth guide

Very good and helpful video! Thank you for that!

I learned so many things, I am trying stage manager for a while on my mac and iPad. This helps bridge the gap between PC and mac for handling lots of open windows

This is a fantastic tour of all the features of stage manager. Thanks!

Indeed useful video. All the SM details got cleared. Thanks a lot, Gary!

I only just switched on stage manager and wasn’t sure what the point was until realised could group windows. Still not sold on it when working with 3 screens but it does solve a lot of problems and has been well thought out. Thanks for a great video / tutorial

Great overview of stage manager. It doesnt seem to meet my workflows/needs but great to see all of the capabilities and to know its available.

I just switched from Windows (20 years) to Macbook (2 weeks ago) and I was scared of all the changes especially Stage Manager so I turned it off, today I am more comfortable with mac so I turned Stage Manager on and watched this video. Looks like a great feature and I cant wait to code from a cafe LOL

Fantastic vid gary, really great to know this for Ventura 👍

Great job. I even learnt other little tips along the way.

Thanks for the thorough explanation of stage manager especially using stage manager with 2 active open apps at the same time. I couldn't find this option.

Great video, thank you. For what it's worth, Stage manager could be a lot better with a few tweaks. For instance, I've noticed that if you drag a window from the stage manager stack to the right, it stays persistent. This is handy, I sometimes like to have "Reminders" static between desktops, which you could do in previous OS versions. Having some apps persistent overall ALL desktops would be welcome though. "Options > assign to This Desktop, All etc" doesn't really do anything when Stage Manager is enabled. This could be pilot error of course.

Thanks very much, Gary, for this excellent and extremely useful guide to Stage Manager!

Thank you! This was really helpful.

You explained this very well. I knew this would be super useful and you proved it to be so! Thank you!

I REALLY love stage manager. It allows me to have many windows open yet still have a clean look. Just absolutely amazing 👏👏👏

Great Video, Thank you so much for this guide.

Helpful walkthrough (as usual 😉). Having the AppSets showing is like having another Docklike structure along the left side of the screen. I noticed that if I move the actual Dock to the left side then the AppSet 'Dock' moves to the right side of the screen. They may add the Stage Manager functionality as an option in the actual Dock though having the AppSets hidden is pretty much the same.

Very good video. Nicely describes Stage Manager. Thanks.

I thought I'd found all the facilities in Stage Manager until I watched your video and realised I had missed some functions, so thank you for your thorough and clearly communicated analysis.

Great tutorial! I learned a lot.

Very useful video! Thank you!

Thank you sm! So comprehensive!

Very useful, thank you. I switched to Mac a year ago and have found 'spaces' very unsatisfactory, especially when. have to restart my machine or just update my browser, and it forgets all the ones that are two apps side-by-side-maximised. Looking forward to trying Stage Manager, which might solve some problems.

Stage Manger looks like a great utility. Thanks for your explanation. I love your narration & coverage of contents ..

Hi Gary, thanks for this video. Like you say, this might not work for everyone - but for me as a disability it is a real time saver if you struggle to hold two keys at once. (for some reason, you can't have accessible keyboard and sticky keys at same time.). you did a tutorial on panel editor this time last year, I couldn't not have accessible keyboard off even if I wanted to because I’m too lazy to type when there’s a button!!

Thanks. I've been using stage manager for some time now, but this video brought some more clarity.

Great video, Gary. I've only been using SM since yesterday. You're right, it will take a while to adjust. Not sure if/how it can help me, but I'll give it time. Adding this atop Mission Control and other app/window/task management features gets to feeling a bit much. But flexible options are nice to have. I bet Apple refines SM over time. So hopefully it only gets better.

Really nice and comprehensive explanation of stage manager. Thanks

Very informative and masterly as ever. Thanks Gary.

Amazing tutorial! Stage Manager is exactly what I've needed for ADHD. A way of thinking of this disorder is the phrase "Out of sight, out of mind", which means if it's not physically in front of someone, it might as well not exist. When I'm multitasking, it's difficult to keep track of different virtual desktops, windows, and multiple monitors, so being able to group apps into spaces that stay within view on the left side of the screen (which is the key here) helps a ton. Mission control helped and still does, but I much prefer this method. I will add, restricting the ability to drag and drop windows between spaces sucks. It means the user must strategically open the desired windows onto a new screen to create spaces. Really unintuitive because the user *does* have the ability to drag windows to the Stage Manager view, and this same concept exists across Mission Control and the entirety of macOS... Lastly, this concept is a bit cumbersome on iPadOS (especially 11" models), and its integration with existing multitasking concepts there feels poorly done.

Thanks Gary, this clears up a lot of question!

Outstanding tutorial! Thank you SO much!

You video is so clear. Thank you very much.

I just updated to Ventura (yes, I waited), mostly for Stage Manager, and after 20 minutes I already love it.

Thank you for making this! I didn’t use the beta and wasn’t sure how to use it ! Thanks again!

Thanks for the terrific video. You answered the question I had indirectly. I've encountered a glitch where if I try to transfer an app window form one space to another by clicking and holding on it and then using Control - # to switch it to the corresponding space, it works, but then I can't actually use the window. I can't type in it. I can't move it around (it will drag but then return to its initial screen location after I let go). Your technique of using mission control works flawlessly. I'm not sure if this is just an oversight from Apple or if it is a bug they are aware of... either way, I'm glad I watched your video.

Amazing video!

Super, super helpful. Thank you!

Others videos weren’t very useful for me, but I’m glad I didn’t unsubscribe. Great introduction of stage manager, very useful. Thanks a lot.

Thank you so much. Someone finally explained how to use this properly. My hat goes off to you!

Coming from an older Mac I was hating this feature. But after watching your video I now have a better appreciation for it and use it quite often. Thank you for the explanation and this video +++

Nice job, I learned a lot! 🙏

Bit late to the show on this but wanted to thank you for exploring app-sets properly! I can understand how superficial reviews would dismiss it, as the functionality is not immediately grasped. But your video has convinced me to try it for a few weeks at least - I can't see why it shouldn't be a winner for someone who's struggled with organising multiple open windows!

Thank you! That is one video that actually makes it seem useful.

Very informative, thank you Gary !

Very thorough. Thanks!

Excellent tutorial. Thanks Gary.

Another excellent tutorial! Thanks!

Great review as always Gary, thank you.

Great video. This makes me multitask like in Windows

Just a quick note that wasn't mentioned here: If like me, you're someone who has the dock along the left side of your screen, Stage Manager app groups appear to the right of the screen. This causes some challenges pulling up control centre, etc. But it works mostly the same. EDIT: I meant to write that stage manager icons appear to the right, not left as originally written. Thank you for pointing out my error Alexander.

Thank you very much. I really appreciate your work and explanations.

Thank you so much for sharing this guide! 🙏🙏🙏

This really helped with having three monitors and having to only see one screen at a time. Now, I could just drag the window to another open app. Great information.

Soooooooo Helpful !! yet again .

Thank you, this video was very informative and helpful

I finally understand how Stage Manager works!! Thanks for sharing this tutorial.

I've been waiting for something like this for a long time! I'm so happy with stage manager!

Superb explanation and far more comprehensive than the video on the Apple Support channel. Thank you