Organise your Mac desktop with Stage Manager
On your Mac, use Stage Manager to keep the app you’re working with front and centre, and your desktop clutter-free. Your recently used apps are neatly arranged along the left side of the screen for quick access, while the window you’re working with is positioned in the centre of the screen.
Arrange, resize and overlap windows in your ideal layout. You can also arrange multiple apps on the screen to work together as a group in Stage Manager. When you switch to a group, all apps in the group open in the centre of the screen.
Turn Stage Manager on or off
You can quickly move back and forth between Stage Manager and traditional windows to use the method that’s best suited for the work you need to do.
On your Mac, do one of the following:
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) Go to Windows & Apps on the right, then turn Stage Manager on or off.Click Control Centre
in the menu bar, then click Stage Manager 
to turn it on or off.
Use Stage Manager
On your Mac, do any of the following:
Switch apps: Click an app on the left side of the screen.
Arrange windows: Reposition, resize and overlap windows to suit your workflow.
Group apps: Drag an app from the left side of the screen to add it to a group of apps in the centre of the screen.
Ungroup apps: Drag an app to the left side of the screen to remove it from the group.
If you turned off “Recent applications” in Stage Manager settings, the list of apps on the left is hidden. Move the pointer to the left edge of the screen to show it.
Show or hide Stage Manager in the menu bar
Stage Manager is always available in Control Centre. You can choose to also show it in the menu bar.
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Click the pop-up menu next to Stage Manager on the right, then choose Show in Menu Bar or Don’t Show in Menu Bar.
Change Stage Manager settings
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
Go to Windows & Apps on the right, click Customise next to Stage Manager, then turn the following settings on or off:
Recent applications: Show recently used apps on the left side of your screen.
If this option is turned off, recently used apps are hidden — move the pointer to the left edge of the screen to briefly show them.
Desktop items: Show items on the desktop.
If this option is turned off, items on the desktop are hidden — click the desktop to show the items when you want to access them.
Click the “Show windows from an application” pop-up menu, then choose an option:
All at Once: Show all available windows for an app when you switch to it.
One at a Time: Show only the most recently used window for an app when you switch to it.
To switch to a different window when this option is turned off, click the app on the left again to open the next available window.
Click Done.