How to Customise the Finder’s Toolbar on Your Mac
The toolbar is visible in every Finder window on your Mac. Ensure you’ve tailored it to your liking. Finder is likely a powerful application you use daily on your Mac, but did you know you can make it even more useful? By customizing Finder’s toolbar, you can create shortcuts to your most frequently used applications and folders or add handy buttons to keep everything in one place. And the best part? It’ll take just a few clicks.
The toolbar is a series of buttons that appear at the top of each Finder window. By customizing it, you can tailor Finder to better suit your needs.
How to Add Applications and Folders to Finder’s Toolbar? Once you’ve grasped the basics of Finder, you’ll probably want to start using the application to its full potential. After all, you likely have many applications and folders on your Mac, but you want to keep your favorites close at hand for when you need them. That’s where Finder comes in. You can add different folders or applications to the toolbar whenever you want quick access.
To add an application or folder, first open Finder. You’ll usually find it in your Dock, but you can also use Spotlight Search on your Mac to open it. Then, find the folder or application you want to add to your toolbar and hold down the Command key. Finally, drag the item to the toolbar at the top of the Finder window. Release it when you see a green plus symbol.
How to Change Buttons in Finder’s Toolbar In addition to adding applications and folders to your toolbar, you can also change the action buttons you see at the top of Finder. Here’s how:
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Open Finder on your Mac. Click on ‘View’ at the top of your screen. Go to ‘Customize Toolbar.’ Lastly, drag any items you want to the toolbar in Finder. Similarly, you can drag any item from your toolbar to remove it.
As a final tip, you can also change the appearance of items in Finder’s toolbar. Simply click on the dropdown menu next to ‘Show’ at the bottom of the window and choose between Icon and Text, Icon Only, or Text Only.
How to Rearrange Items in Finder’s Toolbar Adding different items to your toolbar is easy, but you can take it a step further by rearranging them as you like. To rearrange your items, all you need to do is hold down the Command key and drag the item left or right on your toolbar. Drop the application or folder where you want it to be.
That’s it! If you want, you can drag any application, button, or folder out of the toolbar and drop it to get rid of it.
How to Return to the Default Finder Toolbar? If you’re not fond of how your toolbar looks, you can return to the original appearance by opening Finder and going to View > Customize Toolbar. Then, drag the default toolbar to your current toolbar.
Customize Finder as You Please As you can see, there are many ways to customize Finder’s toolbar on your Mac. You can add your favorite applications, most-used folders, or entirely change the appearance of your toolbar.
Of course, this is just the beginning. There are many other ways to fully customize Finder on your Mac.
