The app and nothing but the app.
For the first time, support for full-screen apps is built into OS X. So you can take apps full screen with a click and navigate between them with a gesture.
Make it big.
Systemwide support for full-screen apps means you can work and play without distractions, using every inch of your display. Everything looks great full screen, from Mail to iPhoto to Safari. And since full-screen apps use every available pixel, they make working on smaller screens more practical than ever.
Go full screen. And back again.
Say you like to work with Pages documents in full-screen view. But you prefer to keep iCal in a desktop window. You can have it both ways. Any app with full-screen capability has a full-screen button in the top right of the app window. Just click it and the app fills the screen. Click the button again to bring the app back to the desktop.
Go full screen.
Click the full-screen button at the top right of the app window to go full screen.
Work full screen.
Your app expands to give you a completely immersive experience.
Go back.
Click the full-screen button again to return to the standard-size window.
Navigation made simple.
When your apps take up the entire screen — and you have multiple full-screen apps open at the same time — you need a quick and easy way to move between them. Lion does it with a swipe. Switch from one full-screen app to another by swiping three fingers left or right on the trackpad. Want to see all open full-screen apps at once? Access Mission Control with a three-finger swipe up on the trackpad or by clicking the Mission Control icon in the Dock.
Three-finger swipe
Swipe to the left or right to move from one full-screen app to the next.
More of the apps you love.
OS X Lion turns Dashboard into a full-screen app that’s easy to get to and a pleasure to view. Mail, iCal, Safari, Photo Booth, FaceTime, Preview, and other built-in apps come with full-screen capability. And apps like iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers were designed to work even better in full-screen view. So you can go big with just about everything on your Mac.
