Now I'm going to go back to desktop one and launch it again and Calendar is now going to launch now on desktop one. I'm going to click on Calendar to make that the front most app. So let's go back over to desktop three where I have two apps running Safari and Calendar. Now I can go into any of these and move between them with Control right arrow, Control left arrow to go between those three different desktops. I'll leave Notes running here on this first desktop. I'll put Calendar and also Safari on this one.

Then I'm going to add additional desktops. I'm going to initiate Mission Control with the keyboard shortcut Control up arrow. So let's start off with a crowded desktop with a bunch of apps running. Not only that but you could also have an application appear across all your desktops. But you can specifically assign an application to a desktop so that even if you quit it and relaunch it it appears where you want it to. Video Transcript: If you use Mission Control one of the frustrations you may run into is that if you quit an app and then you launch it again instead of returning to the desktop it was on it's on your current desktop or a new one. Check out Assign Apps To Desktops at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

Mac os 10.12 assign apps to desktop