Apple latest feature for their desktop operating system was announced in the early days of June 2018. This new feature was announced at the WWDC and is named MacOS Mojave. MacOS Mojave has some amazing features like Dark mode and desktop stacks amongst others. They are just awesome and gives a different kind of charm and mystery to the Apple laptops/PCs.
Now, if you don’t have a Mac don’t fret, in this article, we will talk about some ways through which we can get these amazing iterations to our Windows 10 operating system. Now, not all the features will work on Windows obviously but some of the best MacOS Mojave’s will do.
So, read on to find out How to get MacOS Mojave features on Windows 10. It is not a very daunting task to get these features on Windows as most of these are built-in while others can be downloaded easily with apps that are easy and free to use.
Let’s check out the ways to get MacOS Mojave features on Windows
1. Dark Mode
MacOS Mojave finally brings the most awaited feature of dark mode, and unlike the previous time, the current dark mode is useful and mesmerizing.
If you want this amazing dark shade on your Windows, you will just have to adjust enable it on as it already has this feature.
Here’s how you can do this:
- Open the Windows setting by pressing the windows button on the keyboard plus ‘I’.
- This will take you to settings, now select personalization
- Head over to colors and select the dark mode to enable it
- Now, all the apps will be in dark mode but not the start menu and taskbar, but you can just select the darkest color to match the mode
2. Stacks
If your desktop is always a mess with every type of file just stacked up there, then you will just love this feature. When you enable stack, all the files of one nature are sorted and stacked up in one folder like all PDF documents in one folder. It is better and easy as you just have to click on the stack to see all the files and click again for collapsing it into one folder.
Here’s how you can get this feature on Windows:
- Firstly, you will have to download a third-party app ‘Fences’ which is free for 30 days and paid for afterward. Get it from here.
- Once done with the installation and other formalities, it will sort the similar files in one folder.
Note: – It won’t look exactly as the stack feature of MacOS Mojave, but it does the clean the desktop up space nicely.
3. Quick Look
This is easily my favorite feature as it lets me have a quick look at a video or document and go through its content without opening it in particular software.
Here’s how you can get this for Windows 10:
- Download the free app “quick look” from the stores of Microsoft. Click here to download the app
- Once downloaded, just click on the image, file or video that you want to get a quick look at and press ‘Space’.
- This will open it in quick look for you to check it at flash speed.
4. Finder Features
Apple has updated its finder’s feature that includes gallery view, quick action etc. but most of are unaware that these features are already there in Windows.
Here’s how you can get this for Windows 10
- Go to the view tab on the explorer and enable the ‘preview pane’ to get a gallery view of things.
- If you want the sidebar to check out the metadata, just enable the ‘Details pane’ on the view tab.
- The quick action mode is a bit difficult for every item, but you can get the rotate on/off or set as a desktop background option the explorer.
5. Screenshot feature
Apple latest update has brought a screenshot tool that lets people take a screenshot and edit it right there. Before users used keyboard shortcuts to take a screenshot, but now you can do it with screenshot hub.
Here’s how you can get this for Windows 10:
- Download a free app called TinyTake and it will let you take screenshot and edit them easily. Click here to download the app.
With just some tweaks in the settings and installing some free apps (except for stacks), we can easily use the amazing features of MacOS Mojave in Windows 10 and make our PC better and easy to work with.
So, try these features out and let us know your favorite in the comments section below.