Sequoia maximizes window when dragged near the top of the screen

kéba wrote:

it's toggle on again

I see the same (see above my previous comment) -- but it does not take effect at least on my setup ("Drag windows to menubar to fill screen" seems to switch to ON by itself but that setting is not honored).

ChiWarbler wrote:

It IS annoying when it's pushed on you automatically when you aren't expecting it. Yes, yes it is annoying.

I agree. But on the other hand I now very often use the Option-drag tiling. I guess I would not have discovered it if tiling was disabled by default.

Thank you for that answer, it seems to have worked.

It IS annoying when it's pushed on you automatically when you aren't expecting it. Yes, yes it is annoying.

For me, this is part of a trend in Apple that has existed for years. To bring Windows functionalities to the Mac (in the worst possible way). By doing this it ruins the Mac experience, which is why I have loved Macs for decades.

To all the Windows converts who try to change the mac. Stay with Microsoft if you like this stupid behaviour so much.

And don't praise Mr Ive for things he wouldn't have prevented?! His time also saw total stagnation in mac hardware development.

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I could not find that option, for me it was;

Disable "Tile by dragging windows to edge of screen" in System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Windows. Maybe it means the same thing, or different country, well if its English it should be the same in all countries.

David112570 wrote:

I could not find that option, for me it was;

Disable "Tile by dragging windows to edge of screen" in System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Windows. Maybe it means the same thing, or different country, well if its English it should be the same in all countries.

There are many variations of English. iPhones in the U.S. have a setting called "Cellular". That same setting is called "Mobile" in the UK. You'll note, when you chose a keyboard for any of your devices, that distinctions are made between the versions.

But you'll notice, in this case, that dialabrain has long since accepted a correction from another user. You did read the whole thread, right?

dialabrain wrote:

Indeed. A faux pas on my part. 😎

It always takes me a while to memorize new settings. And, certainly, even though you were wrong, it was probably enough to send most people in the right direction. DavidHilt1 was very polite about it.

I've noticed this behavior since updating to Sequoia a few weeks after it was introduced and it's quite annoying; it seems to have gotten worse with the latest update of 15.0.1. So when I open a second Finder window and try to separate them to transfer files it just keeps snapping back full screen--very annoying. I'm glad there's a solution, which I will try now.

When it was happening recently it only happened when the edge of the window was dragged all the way past the right edge of the screen, and I had two windows open (PDFs). But I just tried it again now and it's not doing that anymore so maybe it was a temporary glitch.

The drag windows to menu bar fill screen must've been what happened accidentally when I was testing earlier today the drag windows to the screen edges to tile which was now honoring the off position, but at one point the window and luxury the edges of the screen--I must have accidentally dragged it over the menu bar. I will now follow your procedure to turn it off, although it may already be working in the on position as I experienced.

In Sequoia 15.1, the options in Settings>Desktop & Dock>Windows is "Drag windows to screen edges to tile" and "Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen." I have both of these options turned off and the annoying behavior continues in Apple Mail and in Safari. I can find no fixes for this.

Dennis_Burnham wrote:

there is no "edge" on either the left or the right side, no matter if this option is on or off. Windows dragged to the side edges simply continue sliding until only a portion of the window remains visible

You are dragging it wrong ... I can repeat either behaviour by a) carelessly dragging to the sides or b) carefully dragging to the sides.

Dragging to the top behaves differently.

> Why Apple felt the need to add this peculiar feature is a mystery to me.

I guess it is the •bullet points• because other OSs have them we must have them too:

"My affection for window tiling is born of muscle memory developed during my time as a PC partisan, which peaked in 2009 and 2010 as Windows 7 was finally breaking a near-decade of Windows XP hegemony. One of Windows 7's best features was Aero Snap, which could quickly resize windows to the left or right halves of your screen with either a quick mouse drag or a keyboard shortcut.

Microsoft has continued to refine the window-snapping idea, and ChromeOS and most of the consumer-friendly Linux distributions have adopted some version of the concept. Now Apple has developed its own take, called window tiling, something it has surely done because of the years I've spent publicly asking for it.

(Dear readers, I know that some of you have an abiding distaste for window snapping/tiling, preferring the precision and predictability of manually managing windows instead; this section is not for you, and the checkbox to disable window tiling in Sequoia is in the System Settings app, under the Windows subheading in Desktop & Dock.)"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/macos-15-sequoia-the-ars-technica-review/#toc-h8

But who wants to add holding down another key to do something that wasn't necessary before? Grrr

Btw, I did find the toggle to turn it off and thank goodness it's no longer doing it. iMac 2019 Sequoia 15.1

Glad you found a solution.