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How to Start the Screen Saver with a Keyboard Shortcut on Mac
With Supercharge
- Open the settings of Supercharge, and click “Shortcuts”.
- Click the field next to “Start screen saver”, and press the keyboard shortcut that you want.
- Press the shortcut. The screen saver of macOS starts.
Supercharge starts the screen saver that you chose in System Settings.
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- Platform
- macOS
- Requires
- macOS 26.4 or later
- Released
- September 2024
- Privacy
- No personal data collected
- Updated
- September 2026
- Version
- 1.30.1
- Size
- 16 MB
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Without an app
- Hot corner: In “System Settings › Desktop & Dock”, click “Hot Corners…”, and choose “Start Screen Saver” for a corner. Then move the pointer into that corner.
- Terminal: Run
open -a ScreenSaverEngine.
The hot corner is enough if you like to use the mouse. Supercharge is for when you want to start the screen saver from the keyboard.