Opening an application in spotlight search opens desktop instead of already open app window. Happens with all apps
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.4
Switching on System Settings > Desktop and Dock > Mission Control > When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application. Followed by a restart fixed the issue. Somehow the setting changed on it's own
dialabrain wrote:
That's not what Spotlight is for. You can command tab through open apps or click on an app's icon in the Dock. If you control/right click on an app's icon in the Dock, you can even choose which window if there is more than one open.
That's not what Spotlight is for. You can command tab through open apps or click on an app's icon in the Dock. If you control/right click on an app's icon in the Dock, you can even choose which window if there is more than one open.
Are you trying to get to the same open app via Spotlight or open another app?
Trying to get to the same open app
There is change in behaviour. If spotlight isn't for this, why did it work before?
sreekarch wrote:
There is change in behaviour. If spotlight isn't for this, why did it work before?
If it worked before, I never noticed in the last 18 years.
Neither is it opening a new window. What its s doing is just highlighting the application in the task bar
sreekarch wrote:
Neither is it opening a new window. What its s doing is just highlighting the application in the task bar
You didn't ask about opening a "new window".
Opening an application in spotlight search opens desktop instead of already open app window
