Finder keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 50 Finder 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.
All shortcuts
- Meta+D — Duplicate the selected files
- Meta+E — Eject the selected disk or volume
- Meta+F — Start a Spotlight search in the Finder window
- Meta+I — Show the get info window for a selected file
- Meta+R — When an alias is selected in the Finder, show original file for the selected alias
- Shift+Meta+C — Open the Computer window
- Shift+Meta+D — Open the desktop folder
- Shift+Meta+F — Open the Recents window, showing all files you viewed or changed recently
- Shift+Meta+G — Open a Go to Folder window
- Shift+Meta+H — Open the Home folder of the current MacOS user account
- Shift+Meta+I — Open the iCloud drive
- Shift+Meta+K — Open the Network window
- Alt+Meta+L — Open the Downloads folder
- Shift+Meta+N — Create a new folder
- Shift+Meta+O — Open the Documents folder
- Shift+Meta+P — Show or hide the Preview pane in Finder windows
- Shift+Meta+R — Open the AirDrop window
- Shift+Meta+T — Show or hide the tab bar in Finder windows
- Ctrl+Shift+Meta+T — Add selected Finder items to the Dock
- Shift+Meta+U — Open the Utilities folder
- Alt+Meta+D — Show or hide the Dock
- Ctrl+Meta+T — Add the selected item to the sidebar
- Alt+Meta+P — Hide or show the path bar in Finder windows
- Alt+Meta+S — Hide or show the Sidebar in Finder windows
- Meta+Slash — Hide or show the status bar in Finder windows
- Meta+J — Show view options
- Meta+K — Open the Connect to Server window
- Ctrl+Meta+A — Make an alias of the selected item
- Meta+N — Open a new Finder window
- Alt+Meta+N — Create a new Smart Folder
- Meta+T — Show or hide the tab bar when a single tab is open in the current Finder window
- Alt+Meta+T — Show or hide the toolbar when a single tab is open in the current Finder window
- Alt+Meta+V — Move the files in the Clipboard from their original location to the current location
- Meta+Y — Use Quick Look to preview the selected files
- Alt+Meta+Y — View a Quick Look slideshow of the selected files
- Meta+1 — View the items in the Finder window as icons
- Meta+2 — View the items in a Finder window as a list
- Meta+3 — View the items in a Finder window in columns
- Meta+4 — View the items in a Finder window in a gallery
- Meta+BracketLeft — Go to the previous folder
- Meta+BracketRight — Go to the next folder
- Meta+ArrowUp — Open the folder that contains the current folder
- Ctrl+Meta+ArrowUp — Open the folder that contains the current folder, in a new window
- Meta+ArrowDown — Open the selected item
- ArrowRight — Open the selected folder, this only works when in list view
- ArrowLeft — Close the selected folder, this only works when in list view
- Meta+Delete — Move the selected item to the trash
- Shift+Meta+Delete — Empty the trash
- Shift+Alt+Meta+Delete — Empty the trash without the confirmation dialogue
- Ctrl+ArrowDown — Show all windows of the front app
- MouseLeft — Open Item
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