# Look to focus for Mac (beta): Look at a screen. Start typing.

> Look to focus for Mac: your camera sees which screen you're facing and moves keyboard focus there before your first keystroke. On-device, frames never saved.

On a Mac with two screens, focus stays behind until you click. You turn to the other monitor, start typing, and your words land in the window you just left. So you reach for the mouse, click, and start again, dozens of times a day.

Look to focus uses your Mac's camera to see which screen you're facing. Once you settle on one, the window you were last using there comes forward, ready for your keystrokes. It's in beta: it's good at telling screens apart, and we're still tuning it.

## What you get

- **Focus follows your head.** Turn to a screen and the window you last used there comes forward, through macOS Accessibility. There's no synthetic click, so the split pane you were in keeps focus.
- **The pointer comes along.** The pointer moves to that screen too, back to where you left it, so new windows, Spaces and Mission Control follow you. You can turn this off.
- **Never mid-sentence.** It waits for a pause in your typing, ignores quick glances, and needs a slightly bigger turn to cross a screen edge, so looking at a bezel doesn't ping-pong.
- **The mouse stays in charge.** While you use the mouse or trackpad, and for 1.5 seconds after, it never moves focus.
- **Learns as you work.** You look where you click, so every click sharpens the calibration. If clicks start landing on a screen it didn't expect, it suggests recalibrating.
- **Private by design.** Up to 15 frames a second, read into a head and eye pose by Apple's Vision framework, then thrown away. Nothing is recorded, saved or uploaded.

## How it works

1. Open the Displays tab in the notch and turn on Look to focus.
2. Allow the camera and Accessibility when asked.
3. Calibrate: follow a dot around each screen, about 20 seconds a screen.
4. Turn to a screen and type. ⌃⌥L, or the power tool, turns it on and off.

Shortcut: ⌃⌥L

## FAQ

### Why is it in beta?

Telling screens apart works well with an ordinary webcam. How well depends on your camera, your light and where you sit, and we're still tuning it. Turn on Show where I'm looking in its menu to see a dot where ctrlhq thinks you're looking.

### Is it really tracking my eyes?

Mostly your head. Which screen you're facing comes from how your head is turned. Where your eyes sit is measured too, and helps more as calibration and your clicks refine it.

### Do I need more than one display?

Yes, for now. It switches focus between screens. Focusing windows and split panes on the same screen is next.

### Does it record or upload video?

No. Frames are processed in memory on your Mac with Apple's Vision framework and discarded straight away. Nothing is written to disk or sent anywhere.

### Does it use the camera all the time?

Only while it's on and calibrated, and the camera light shows it. It pauses when your Mac locks or sleeps, and while Quick snap or the recording bubble needs the camera.

### What if I move my laptop or monitors?

Recalibrate from its menu in the Displays tab. If you forget, ctrlhq notices that focus keeps missing and offers to.

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