You can then check and uncheck the options here as well.

To adjust these options, click More > Customize. (What you see here, depends on the macOS version you’re using.) For video files, you’ll see the rotate and trim actions. For images, you’ll see the convert image, create PDF, Markup, and rotate actions.

Customize the Quick ActionsĪt the bottom of the Preview pane, you’ll see Quick Actions that are also different per file type.

Along with the basics, you can choose to display city, state, country, performers, directors, producers, copyright, rating, and genre for video files.įor audio files, you can see details like audio channels, sample rate, bits per sample, codecs, recording date, and musical genre. For those working with video and audio files often, these details in the Preview pane can be very useful. Video and audio files currently have the most details available of all file types. Select those that you want to see in the Preview pane for PDF files. With PDF files, you have a few additional options to pick from in the General section, like title, authors, pages, resolution, and description. You can show tags, dates, and more items like keywords and where the document is from. Next, click View > Show Preview Options, and check or uncheck the details as you want them displayed. Customize common document optionsįor documents like Pages, Numbers, Word, Excel, or a text file, you have the same options to choose from for the details you see. When you finish, just close the Preview Options window.

For example, you may want to view the device make and model, ISO speed, and white balance for every image at a glance. You can choose to see the EXIF data for the images or just certain data. And maybe even more helpful if you deal with images a lot. The Preview Options for image files like JPG and PNG are more extensive than the other file types. Customize what you see in the Finder Preview paneįor each of the file types below, you can click View > Show Preview Options from the menu bar to customize the details. If you don’t see the Preview pane on the right side of your Finder window, just open it from the menu bar by clicking View > Show Preview. 4) Finder Preview sidebar on Mac Open the Preview pane

Mac photo preview looks different