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# How to switch the keyboard shortcut for Spotlight to Alfred
- URL: https://jasontucker.blog/how-to-switch-the-keyboard-shortcut-for-spotlight-to-alfred/
- Published: 2015-02-10T10:02:46.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-19T23:20:53.000Z
- Author: Jason Tucker
- Tags: apple

My friend [Brandon Dove](http://brandondove.com/?ref=jasontucker.blog) did a bad thing last night he showed me something awesome, you see at my local [WordPress meetup](http://ocwp.org/?ref=jasontucker.blog) he reintroduced me to Alfred and after watching his set of workflows I’m hooked… again. I’ve jumped around between [LaunchBar](http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html?ref=jasontucker.blog), the new Spotlight and [Alfred](http://www.alfredapp.com/?ref=jasontucker.blog) over the years (I even used [Quicksilver](http://qsapp.com/?ref=jasontucker.blog) when that was a big thing). In a later post I’ll circle back around to some of the cool workflow things that Brandon is using and how I’m incorporating it into my daily computer life. But before I can do that I need to work with my existing muscle memory of ⌘ and ␣ so that I don’t need to retrain myself to use Alfred using another key command.

## How to disable the keyboard shortcut for Spotlight

This is short and sweet. To make the change go into  and then Preferences. From there select Keyboard

[![System_Preferences_and_Add_New_Post_‹_Jason_Tucker_—_WordPress](https://jasontucker.blog/content/images/2015/02/System_Preferences_and_Add_New_Post_%E2%80%B9_Jason_Tucker_%E2%80%94_WordPress-150x150.jpg)](https://jasontucker.blog/content/images/2015/02/System%5FPreferences%5Fand%5FAdd%5FNew%5FPost%5F%E2%80%B9%5FJason%5FTucker%5F%E2%80%94%5FWordPress.jpg)

Once you have done that you’ll want to click on Shortcuts on the top then Spotlight on the left and uncheck Show Spotlight Search

[![Keyboard](https://jasontucker.blog/content/images/2015/02/Keyboard-150x150.jpg)](https://jasontucker.blog/content/images/2015/02/Keyboard.jpg)

## How to change the keyboard shortcut for Alfred

Now in Alfred you can go into it’s preferences and change the default key command to ⌘ and ␣ by clicking in the box and pressing those keys.

[![Alfred_Preferences_and_Add_New_Post_‹_Jason_Tucker_—_WordPress](https://jasontucker.blog/content/images/2015/02/Alfred_Preferences_and_Add_New_Post_%E2%80%B9_Jason_Tucker_%E2%80%94_WordPress-150x150.jpg)](https://jasontucker.blog/content/images/2015/02/Alfred%5FPreferences%5Fand%5FAdd%5FNew%5FPost%5F%E2%80%B9%5FJason%5FTucker%5F%E2%80%94%5FWordPress.jpg)