“By default, there are several menu bar applications preloaded on the Mac, most of them giving you quick access to the most commonly tweaked settings, such as volume, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth,” Taylor Martin reports for CNET.
“Clicking on any of these will provide a list of quick access settings,” Martin reports. “However, if you hold the option key while clicking some of the icons, it unveils an entirely different menu.”
“Specifically, with volume settings, holding the option key will reveal a menu that will allow you to quickly change the input source and output device,” Martin reports. “For Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, the option key reveals more in-depth information on your device or devices you’re connected to. ”
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MacDailyNews Take: Another little volume-related trick: Hold down Option-Shift while using the volume up and down keys on your keyboard and you’ll get finer output volume control; by holding Option-Shift, each step is one quarter that of the normal volume up and down keys.