Drag and drop

The process of moving items on your Mac. You can drag and drop items on your Mac to easily do many things; for example, to move files and folders in a Finder window, add a photo to an email message, move a chunk of text in a document or add items to the Dock.

To drag an item, select it, then press and hold the mouse or trackpad while you drag the item to a new location. Release to drop the item into place.