How do I keep an app out of Flick?

Ignore an app

1. Open the actions menu on one of its rows

   Open Flick and right-click or Control-click one of the app's rows. From the keyboard, select the row and press ⌥⇧K (⇧⌘K with the ⌘Tab trigger, or ⌘K once you've let go in a list that stays open).

2. Choose Ignore and the app's name

   It's the last item, such as Ignore Safari. In a menu you opened from the keyboard, press I. The app's rows disappear and Flick stays open, so you can carry on switching.

3. Or add it in Settings

   Open Settings › Exceptions and click Add App. A window opens in Applications and asks you to choose apps to hide from Flick. Select one or more apps (⌘-click to pick several) and click Ignore. This way works for apps that aren't running too.

The actions menu has more than Ignore: close, minimize, hide, quit and force quit. See Close, minimize, hide or quit from Flick.

Stop ignoring it

Open Settings › Exceptions. The Ignored Apps group lists each app with its icon and name. Click the minus button next to an app to remove it, and its windows come straight back to the list. Right-click an app there and choose Show in Finder to see where it's installed. An app you've since deleted stays in the list, dimmed, until you remove it.

What changes

• Its windows leave the list and search, on every Space, minimized ones included.
• Its tabs leave search too, if it's a browser you turned on in Settings › Browser Tabs.
• The front app's windows skip it. With the ⌘Tab trigger, ⌘` does nothing while an ignored app is in front. With the ⌥Tab trigger, the same goes for ⌥` if you turned it on, and macOS's own ⌘` works as usual.
• It can still appear under Apps. Type its name in search and the Apps section can still offer the app, so you can open it from Flick. More in the Apps section.
• In the free version, an ignored app's windows don't use any of your 5 places, so the 5 go to windows you want.
• The app itself doesn't change. It runs as before, and macOS's own switchers still show it.

What you can't ignore

• Flick itself. It can't be added, and its own windows are never in the list anyway.
• A single window, or windows by title. Ignoring works per app only. To thin out the list another way, turn off Show minimized windows or turn on Show only the active Space; see Change what Flick's list shows.
• Other editions with the same entry. Flick matches an app by the identifier macOS uses to tell apps apart, so every copy of the app, and its updates, stay ignored. A separate edition, such as Google Chrome Beta next to Google Chrome, has its own identifier and needs its own entry.
• An app without an identifier. A few apps don't have one. The actions menu then has no Ignore item, and Add App skips them.

Menu bar apps, floating palettes and Picture in Picture are never listed in the first place. If a window is missing and you didn't ignore its app, see Find a missing window.

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