Stage manager and Safari on iMac

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Stage manager and Safari on iMac

When I'm using Safari on my iMac (Ventura 13.3) and have it open, it won't 'leave the stage' when I click on the desktop. It always stay there. When I bring 'on stage' another app from the LHS stack, Safari just remains there. All the other apps 'leave the stage' as expected, but not Safari.

I also opened Chrome, and when I have it open 'centre stage' I can make it move 'off stage' by clicking the desktop. So its behaving as I would expect.

Anyone else having this problem? I restarted in Safe Mode, but same behaviour.

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Posted on May 19, 2023 11:18 AM

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Tosh.SE1 Author

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May 20, 2023 03:06 AM in response to dialabrain

OK, found the problem and solution.

I had Safari configured via 'Right Click' the Dock Icon>Options>'Assign to All Desktops'. When I changed this to either Options>Assign to 'None' or 'This Desktop' it all worked as expected.

Thanks again for your time replying to my posts.

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Feb 23, 2024 06:26 AM in response to Tosh.SE1

Unbelievable, Tosh! I had the same problem with Sonoma. I spent over an hour with Apple support (tier 2), and they couldn't figure it out. Your fix worked for me...THANKS for sharing this information.

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