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Keyboard shortcuts

A complete reference for everything you can do from the keyboard.

Windows and tabs

Shortcut Action
⌘N New Window
⌘T New Tab
⌘W Close Window
⌘M Minimize
⌘Q Quit Iris
⌘H Hide Iris
⌘⌥H Hide Others
⌘⌃F Enter / Exit Full Screen

Layout

Shortcut Action
⌘0 Show / Hide Sidebar
⌘⌥0 Show / Hide Inspector
⌘⌥T Show / Hide Toolbar
⌘L Toggle Lights Out
Shortcut Action
⌘[ Back in history
⌘] Forward in history
⌘K Jump (Quick Open) dialog
⇧⌘9 Surprise Me!
⌃D Go to selected item's date
⌃N Go to nearby items
⌃⇧1 Focus the sidebar. (Or press the left arrow when the left most grid item is selected.)
⌃⇧2 Focus the content area (Or press the right arrow when a leaf sidebar item is selected.)
⌘F Focus the search field

Views

Shortcut Action
⌘1 Grid view
⌘2 Map view
⌘3 List view
⌥⌘R Toggle Square / Aspect Ratio grid
⌘= Zoom in (larger thumbnails)
⌘- Zoom out (smaller thumbnails)
⌥⌘F Show / Hide Filter Bar

Inspector

Shortcut Action
⌥⌘1 Inspector → Summary tab
⌥⌘2 Inspector → Details tab
⌥⌘3 Inspector → People tab
⌥⌘4 Inspector → Magic tab
⌥⌘5 Inspector → Metadata tab

Inline viewer

Shortcut Action
Space Open / close inline viewer
← → Previous / next item
Escape Close the viewer
⌥Space Start playback (video)

Items

Shortcut Action
⌘. Toggle favorite
⌘E Set Approximate Date…
^⌘R Show in Finder
⇧⌘X Copy Item URL
⇧⌘C Copy Text From Image (OCR)

Window

Shortcut Action
⇧⌘1 Open Pipeline Status window

Standard editing

Shortcut Action
⌘, Open Settings
⌘? Iris Help