On your windows
It settles where it lands.
Snow gathers on the tops of your windows and the Dock, following their rounded corners. Drag a window and its snow slides off; close or minimize it and the snow falls to the drift below.
What the snow does
- Falls
- Every flake keeps its own pace and sways in a slow breeze. Variable lets the snowfall rise and ease on its own over the day.
- Settles
- It piles up and slumps to a natural slope along the bottom of the screen, on any window with room above it, and on the Dock.
- Moves
- Push the cursor through a drift and it parts and sprays. Drag or shake a window and its snow slides off and lands below.
- Drops
- Close or minimize a window and its snow drops at once, in lumps that burst into powder where they land. Switch Spaces and the snow rides along with the window.
- Melts
- With Melt Snow on, the drift thaws slowly, so it never takes over your screen.
- Hides
- Screenshots and screen sharing show your desktop without it, unless you turn on Show in Screenshots.
- Rests
- About 6% of one processor core and 65 MB of memory, and less on battery or in Low Power Mode. It pauses while your screen sleeps, locks or is covered.