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How to use Glass Power Tools on Vision Pro, Mac, iPad and iPhone. Press ⌘K or / to search every page.

Your machines

Browse your machines

How the library is laid out on each device, how to search it, and what a host's details and this device's host show.

Add a machine and its services

Add a host with a Terminal, Database or Desktop service, add more services, edit them, and remove services or hosts.

Connect and switch between sessions

Use the Connect controls and the Mac's Command Palette, switch to or close open sessions from Active and the lightning button, see everything open with Show All Windows, and shrink windows into orbs on Vision Pro.

Widgets

The Machines, Machine and Active widgets on iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro and Mac: where they go, what they show, and what choosing them does.

Siri, Shortcuts and the rest of the system

Siri phrases and Shortcuts actions, sending files to a machine, Spotlight, Controls, Handoff, dragging a service into its own window, ssh:// links, and on the Mac the Finder's Services, toolbar button and Quick Action, Open With and the Dock menu.

Favorites, collections and other names

Mark favorites, find recent hosts, group hosts into collections, and give a host other names that search and matching use.

Manage SSH keys

Import keys or generate them in the Secure Enclave, see which services use a key, and copy, export, rename or delete keys.

Your library on all your devices

What iCloud syncs and what stays on one device, when syncing happens, how to check its status, and how conflicts resolve.

Settings and window appearance

Open Settings on each device, choose Light or Dark, set window opacity and glass, and read the General, Privacy and About pages.

Terminal

Connect to a machine over SSH

Set up a Terminal service, connect, enter passwords, route through jump hosts, allow legacy algorithms, and recover from dropped connections.

Sign in with keys and trust host keys

Work in a terminal

Terminal windows, tabs and splits, the layout toggle and the plus menu, the Mac window's sidebar, moving tabs between windows, what comes back after a relaunch, the tools menu, text size, scaling the text with the window, search, paste review, links and paths, previewing a printed path's file, selecting on Vision Pro, dropping files, snippets, recording and the Mac's local shell.

Keep terminals running with tmux

Keep each terminal in its own tmux session, reconnect to it, pick it up from Active on another device or add it to a window as a tab, end it, open a basic terminal outside tmux, and keep the Mac's local terminals running in the background.

Browse and transfer files over SFTP

Open the file browser, upload and download, create, rename, move and delete items, and edit remote files in the Editor.

Forward ports through an SSH session

Add local, remote and SOCKS5 port forwards to a live SSH session, start and stop them, and fix common failures.

Save and open terminal Workgroups

Create Workgroups of terminal tabs with startup commands, open them on each platform, and swap in SSH for Mac-only local tabs.

Terminal settings, themes and snippets

The Connections, Terminal and Snippets settings pages, resizing and previews, theme editing, a terminal window's own settings, SSH config import and Tailscale.

Databases

Add a database service

Add a MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite database to a host, fill in its fields, and make it read-only.

Encryption and the SSH tunnel

Turn on TLS, choose how the certificate is verified, understand the unencrypted warning, and connect through the host's SSH service.

The database workspace

Connect, browse databases and schemas, read the overview and charts, use schema commands and the Mutation Log, reconnect, and give a window its own settings.

Browse table data

Switch table views, sort, filter and page rows, manage columns, analyze, follow foreign keys and export.

See a database's diagram

Every table, column and foreign key as a live diagram, in three dimensions on Vision Pro.

Edit rows and structure

Edit, add, delete and paste rows with a review before every write, and change columns, indexes and foreign keys.

Write and run SQL

Run statements, use Explain Plan, cancel and format, save .sql files, use query history with literal redaction, and keep saved queries.

The on-device assistant

Generate SQL, get suggested fixes and automatic tab titles from the on-device model, and see exactly what it is given.

Remote desktops

Add a remote desktop

Add an RDP or VNC Desktop service to a host, what each field means, and how to edit or remove it.

Import an RDP file

Turn a .rdp file into a host with a Desktop service, what the import keeps, and which files it refuses.

Sign in and trust a remote computer

NLA and TLS fallback, VNC password or Mac account sign-in, verifying RDP certificates, and what is not supported.

Connect to and leave a remote desktop

Open a desktop, enter a password when asked, read status and failures, reconnect, give a desktop window its own settings, and close a session.

Remote desktops on Apple Vision Pro

The desktop window's controls and shape, headset input, glass opacity and strength, and removing the remote background.

Resolution, scaling and zoom

Match Window Size, Detail, fixed resolutions, several displays and a window for each, a Mac's displays and pointer, Screen Sharing quality, Retina displays at 1x, a smaller picture from a Mac and what the network carries, High Performance from a Mac, keeping a window in its display's shape, and zooming the image in the window.

Keyboard, pointer, clipboard and audio

Typing, the Keys menu and arrow pad, pointer modes and gestures, sharing the clipboard, and remote audio.