Learn about the hidden power in the Messages app for macOS

It is clear that the more you know about the Mac system, the more you realize that it is a system that is not only worth what it does but also because of what it potentially has hidden under the blue sky and can do. In this article, I want to talk a little about a feature of the Messages app in macOS that you may not know about.

When we open the Messages application, we are shown a window in which on the left side are the people with whom we have an open conversation and on the right side the window itself where we write and share any type of file that we deem appropriate. 

However, having many conversations and at any given time having to talk to more than one at a time can be cumbersome and we would have to be selecting each conversation in the sidebar to enter one or the other and maintain the conversations. It becomes more complicated if what we want is to share a file that sheaths us in a conversation with other conversations and is that that way we must first save the file and then insert it into the new conversations. 

Well, you can simplify all this if you quickly double-click on a conversation, because automatically you will see how Messages opens a new individual chat window for that conversation. You can repeat this process with as many conversations as you want and thus have several windows visible on the screen to be able to read all the conversations at the same time. 

In addition, if in a conversation they send you a file, for example a pdf file, if you want to share it from one conversation to another, just click and drag it to the conversation you want. Without having to save it, you could share it very quickly. 


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