This happens with any external display but I never tried with an Apple one.
Some times I need to zoom (Accessibility > Zoom option) in Picture-in-Picture mode. Once the external display is unplugged it loses the Zoom preferences, namely the position and size. This is a bug that's annoying or am I missing something? I think I already tried to delete the plist file with no success.
Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry, I'm not getting where that has anything to do with this issue. This is a bug. Everything else remembers if it belongs to the MacBook Pro display or to the external one. This is just a preference that doesn't stick. Just that.
I'm not understanding if you're trying to tell me this is not a bug while trying to justify it or not… Believe me, it's a bug. If I open a new Finder window in the MBP's display it has one size, if I open it in the ED it has another size.
Please, I would like to understand your point.
You operated it for some time with a completely different setup.
When you change your setup yet again. it may not be realistic to assume will remember all that and go back to the way it was long before.
You can ask official Apple support whether they could provide more guidance.
you could leave a terse feedback (a few paragraphs) here:
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Readers here are other users like you. I have tried to explain my interpretation, but we don't seem to be understanding each other's point of view.
if you would like to discuss this with official apple support or leave a feedback message, You can ask official Apple support whether they could provide more guidance.
you could leave a terse feedback (a few paragraphs) here:
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Well, it’s a laptop, sometimes I need it to go with me and would never be carrying a 27” monitor still connected to it, anywhere. I think it’s obvious.
What would I expect? The Zoom preferences to stick and not be forgotten!
I will for sure but basically you’re telling me I should lose my Desktop Picture, my Finder preferences and everything whenever I restart or log out my user?! It’s just an accessibility preference, like so many others. And it’s a bug. Probably I should save this preference file and load it within a script…
I do not speak for Apple.
What I intended to say was that [in my option] you unplugged your display and re-arranged your setup in a fairly substantial way. Because of all those changes, I am not surprised that your Mac does not return to that setup later.
What indication did you leave to tell it the additional display and Zoom active with picture by picture should somehow be considered the baseline?
It seems to me, you re-arranged, asked it to change, and it changed.
Then you changed it again. You did succeed in telling it to change BACK to a previous setup, you did not save that previous setup.
Ok, let me clear this out.
I set up the Zoom Picture-in-Picture mode in the external display, I use it and everything’s fine. When I need to carry the MacBook Pro somewhere else I unplug the external display. So far everything’s normal.
Now, I don’t use or configure the Zoom Accessibility when I’m in the Mac without the external display and when I return home I plug the external display back, and when I use the Zoom feature it’s all misplaced and in the MacBook Pro’s display.
I never told I have configured it on the MBP display when unplugged from the ED.
The Mac uses a system that reminds me of “Plug and play” to determine what display is connected, and what its capabilities are.
To get a Mac display to become active, you need the Mac to query the display, and the display to answer with its name and capabilities. Otherwise, the display will not be shown as present, and no data will be sent to the display. "No signal detected" is generated by the DISPLAY, not by the Mac.
This query is only sent at certain times:
• at startup
• at wake from sleep — so momentarily sleeping and waking your Mac may work
• at insertion of the Mac-end of the display-cable, provided everything on that cable is ready-to-go
• hold the Option key while you click on the (Detect Display) button that will appear in Displays preferences (from another display)
in addition, when a second display is no longer present, its opened windows are moved to the closest edge of the adjacent display, because otherwise they would become inaccessible.
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You did not issue user commands to tell your Mac the setup was changing. But adding/removing an external display is a Major change, as far as MacOS is concerned.
The Mac rediscovers the connected displays every time it restarts or the display is re-connected.
¿Why are you unplugging the display, and what did you really expect?
MacBook Pro M1 + external display - zoom issues
