Drag and drop

The process of moving items on your Mac. You can drag and drop items on your Mac to easily do many things—for example, to move files and folders in a Finder window, add a photo to an email message, move a chunk of text in a document, or add items to the Dock.

To drag an item, select it, then press and hold the mouse or trackpad while you drag the item to a new location. Release to drop the item into place.