Window Jump and previews

With BoxView Helper paired, BoxView's window list and Quick switcher use the helper. It lists the Mac's windows with their titles, includes minimised windows and windows on other Spaces, and brings forward the exact window you pick. How to use them: Find a window.

The helper works as soon as it's paired, but macOS only lets it see some of this with two permissions. You give them on the Mac, in System Settings › Privacy & Security. BoxView Helper never asks for them by itself, and BoxView's window list says which one is missing.

#Accessibility

For window titles, minimised windows, and raising one exact window or bringing a minimised one back:

1. Choose Window Jump: Allow Accessibility… from BoxView Helper's menu. System Settings opens at Accessibility.
2. Add BoxView Helper with + and turn it on.

The menu then reads Window Jump: window titles and exact raising on.

#Screen Recording

For the titles of windows on other Spaces, and window previews in the Quick switcher:

1. Choose Window Jump: Previews and Other Spaces' Titles (Screen Recording)… from BoxView Helper's menu.
2. Add BoxView Helper with + to the top list, Screen & System Audio Recording, and turn it on.
3. macOS offers Quit & Reopen. If BoxView Helper doesn't come back, open it again.

BoxView Helper may already be listed lower down, in System Audio Recording Only, for Mac sound. That list doesn't give previews.

Window previews need macOS 14 or later.

#Good to know

• Window lists belong to one Mac account. Each account you log in to from BoxView needs BoxView Helper running in that account.
• When you're connected to a Mac account that isn't the one on the Mac's own screen, macOS gives no window details even with Accessibility on. The list shows app names, and picking a window brings its whole app forward.
• Minimised windows have no preview; BoxView shows the app's icon.