how do I disable automatic window resizing in Sequoia

Jo! wrote:

Jo! wrote:

that does not work.

Is there any way it can be disabled through Terminal?

Anyone??

People who cannot turn it off in Settings report that they have Dell monitor software running which does a very similar thing.

Jo! wrote:

There a few posts that say Dell monitor software causes window tiling. Perhaps you have something installed that is doing it or re-enabling it. It seems the vast majority of users have no issues turning it off.

what you are also saying here is that the '+' in the green button should actually behave like it used to prior to Sequoia with alle settings switched off?

No, the Green dot is now relegated to Full Screen or window Tiling.

Turning off the Tiling settings just affects the drag to Tile options.

This is what happens when you let I.T. types run the show instead of asking people what they want/need.

People here have been asking for it for years. It was something some people wanted. I have no idea why.

One of the all-time dumbest features ever on Desktop. And hard to get rid of it...it plagued me but thanks to the forum I was able to disable it FINALLY.

Seems like Apple is desperate for new features (like the abominable changes to the Photos app), most of which are highly counterintuitive.

Feel free to send Apple feedback.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

BDAqua wrote:

Jo!, try this App...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12

but how will an app that seems to do the same and costs money on top of that help me to get rid of the tiling al together? I want the 'old' function of option-klick the green button, which sizes the document to its size, and no more. That function has disappeared (see other post for screenshots)

Is there maybe a possible command through Terminal to switch this off??

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You are not crazy, Paul2727! I have the very same behavior here – Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen will not stay disabled, no matter how many times I toggle it off.

Never mind that it's not at all intuitie to even find these settings in System Settings. How do these Windows features fit under Desktop and Dock??

Jo! wrote:

it's not only to do with 'like' - I can handle that, I do know my way around the system to apply settings. …

What the problem is here is that this feature cannot be switched off, even when all the appropriate sliders are in the 'off' state!

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/bd7f2e47-e23e-4788-88c4-1ffa48794f54

(Sorry … Dutch)

I cannot really simulate the old state with the green button (… it has disappeared), but the current state DOES look like it could be a bug, or at least a design error: both state ar similar, with or without the +

There a few posts that say Dell monitor software causes window tiling. Perhaps you have something installed that is doing it or re-enabling it. It seems the vast majority of users have no issues turning it off.

This doesn't work, at least not on a Mac Mini M2 Pro.

I had no trouble disabling tiling.

So, so very annoying feature indeed!!!

Oh thank God ! Thank you for answering and helping me out - I hated it.

You're a Star !

I have a similar problem!

I recently upgraded to Sequoia.

Yes, I could not resist, though the advice was to not bother - most options do not work here in NL. I am an 'ancient' Mac user ☀️, started in 1991, my first Macs were a plus and a Macintosh II with macOS 4, and back in the days, a new os was quite a thing and you couldn't wait to find out what all the new features were.

I first noticed the problem in Pages.

What I do when I open a template from Pages is change the appearance.

Somehow pages needs to open standard with the info-sidebar on the right (very annoying! 😡 - wish I could change that too).

The first thing I do, for lack of an alternative, is press option-command-"I" which makes the sidebar go away. Next thing I do (or did) is click on the green button with the optionkey pressed. I still changes to a "+", but now does something completely different (even more annoying! 😡 😡 😡)

Before (Sonoma and previous) the window of the file would then fit the size of the document. Now it does not do that, even though I have all options in settings switched off (who needs it anyway??? 😕 👎).

Million dollar Question:

Is there a way, maybe through terminal, to 'kill' it all together?

This thing actually would be a reason for me to downgrade, if that were possible!, since this interrupts my workflow badly!

Before Sequoia I had the latest version of Sonoma which did not have this problem.

My Mac:

thank you for your patience and help!!

Thanks you a million times over. It worked for me too. This feature is very very annoying.

all very well, but that does not address the fact that a function of the green blob on the left topcorner has changed, and cannot be reverted, even not with the functions of tiling etc in the system settings switched of.

Before Sequoia (Sonoma and earlier) pressing the option-key changed the green ting to a +, meaning it would size the window (fe a pages document) nicely to its size, and no more. This function has disappeared. there is still a ≠ appearing, but I still get these tiling-options: there is no difference!

so either I am being annoying, or there is something wrong here!

(my system is Dutch, but the functions are the same.