Mira's Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac

On Mac, Mira is a tabbed app for video — several videos or sites open side by side, switchable without touching the mouse. The shortcut set is small and deliberately familiar: if your fingers know Safari or Chrome, they already know Mira. Here's the full documented list, and when each one earns its keep.

The full list

Seven chords, all standard Mac fare. Skim the list, then read on for where each one actually earns its place in a watching session.

• ⌘T — New tab
• ⌘W — Close tab
• ⌘R — Reload the page
• ⌘L — Focus the search bar
• ⌘, — Open Settings
• ⌃Tab — Next tab
• ⌃⇧Tab — Previous tab

Tabs: ⌘T, ⌘W, ⌃Tab, ⌃⇧Tab

This quartet is the heart of the set. ⌘T opens a fresh tab when a second video shows up mid-video — a link from a friend, a "watch this next" you don't want to lose. ⌃Tab and ⌃⇧Tab cycle forward and back through open tabs, which is how you bounce between a lecture in one tab and a reference video in another without either losing its place. When a tab has served its purpose, ⌘W closes it.

A practical pattern: keep your main video in tab one, open anything that comes up in new tabs with ⌘T, then sweep through them with ⌃Tab when the main video ends.

⌘L: the fastest way anywhere

⌘L focuses the search bar, and the search bar accepts more than searches — type a query, enter a web address, or paste a video link and Mira takes you straight there. ⌘L then ⌘V is the two-chord way to open any link from your clipboard. If you'd rather not type at all, Mira on Mac also accepts drag and drop: drag a link in from iMessage, Safari, Notes, or Mail and it opens instantly — and links drag out of Mira just as easily when you want to share what you're watching.

Putting it together

Here's what a typical session looks like once the chords are in your fingers. ⌘L, type the lecture's name, Enter — you're watching. A friend messages you a link mid-video: ⌘T for a new tab, ⌘L, ⌘V, Enter — it's queued without interrupting the lecture. ⌃Tab over to check it's the right video, ⌃⇧Tab back. When the lecture ends, ⌃Tab to the friend's video; when that's done, ⌘W and you're back where you started. At no point did you reach for the trackpad.

None of these chords need learning in any real sense — they're the same ones Safari and Chrome use. That's the design: Mira's Mac app keeps the conventions your fingers already know, just built around video.

⌘R: the polite fix

Web players occasionally wedge — a stream that won't start, a page that loaded oddly, a player that lost track of its own controls. ⌘R reloads the current page, which resolves most of these without restarting anything else. It's scoped to the tab you're looking at, so your other tabs keep playing untouched — worth remembering before reaching for anything more drastic.

⌘,: straight to Settings

The standard Mac Settings chord works in Mira too. It's the quick route when you want to flip a toggle mid-session — adjusting which segment categories SponsorBlock skips on your Mac, changing your homepage, or managing custom platforms — without hunting through the toolbar. Settings is where most of Mira's one-time decisions live, so being one chord away matters more than it sounds: you tweak, close, and you're back in the video in a few seconds.

Things to note

• It's a short list. These seven shortcuts are the documented set. Playback tools — speed, Focus Mode, transcript, Watch Together — are toolbar controls you click, not key chords.
• Mac only. On iPhone and iPad there's no shortcut table; controls live in the toolbar and the tool menu instead. If you're new to where everything sits, start with getting started with Mira.
• Tabs are a Mac concept here. ⌘T, ⌘W, and the ⌃Tab pair assume Mira's Mac tabbed layout, which the iPhone and iPad versions don't share.