With the Terminal icon in your Dock already, from recently opening it, do the following:ġ) Hold Control and click the Terminal icon in the Dock or right-click it.Ģ) Mouse over Options in the pop-up menu. If you decide to start using Terminal more often, creating a shortcut for it in your Dock is convenient. Thanks to a helpful comment from one of our readers, there is one more super simple way to open Terminal on Mac using Siri:ġ) Click the Siri button from your menu bar or open Siri from your Applications folder.Ģ) Using your microphone, simply say “Open Terminal.” 6. If you have arranged your Launchpad items differently and removed the Other folder, you can still find Terminal easily:Ģ) Type “Terminal” into the search box at the top.ģ) When the Terminal icon displays, click it. By default, Launchpad contains a folder labeled Other that contains Terminal:ġ) Open Launchpad from your Dock with the keyboard shortcut F4, or tap the six-square-icon button on the Touch Bar. You can open Terminal using Launchpad in two ways, depending on if you have organized Launchpad in a different way or not. If you have the Applications folder in your Dock as I do, you can open Terminal from there too:ģ) Choose Terminal. If you have a Finder window open, you can access Terminal from the Applications folder:ġ) Select Applications from the left side.Ģ) Click the arrow to expand the Utilities folder.

Open Terminal using the Applications folder

Open Finder or make sure that your menu bar is using Finder and not another application:ġ) Click Go > Utilities from the menu bar.Ģ) In the Utilities folder that opens, double-click Terminal. Otherwise, you can use the keyboard shortcut Command + Space.ģ) You should see the Terminal application under Top Hit at the top of your results. One of the quickest and easiest ways to open Terminal on Mac is with Spotlight Search:ġ) If you have the Spotlight Search button in your menu bar, click it.

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