Desktop icons inappropriately snap to grid after update to macOS Tahoe.

Anthony M Kassir MD wrote:

After updating to macOS Tahoe, all of the icons on my Desktop are behaving as if "snap to grid" is turned on but it is off. I normally have all my icons in certain locations on the Desktop, and don't use the grid. Now if I move one to the desired location, it moves automatically to a nearby unwanted location.

Under View options, "Stack by..." and "Sort by..." are set to None. Stacks are off.

I looked in other threads and learned how to reveal invisible items but there are no .DS_store files in my Desktop folder to delete.

I've played with the grid and icon sizes under view options to no avail. I've turned Stacks on and off. I've chosen other Sort by options and then switched back to None. Nothing worked.

I've tried restarting, and restarting in Safe Boot mode.

Any help would be most appreciated!

MacBook Pro November 2023 16" M3 Max

macOS Tahoe

hmmm... very interesting.

Seems you have done all the right things in an effort to sort the glitch.

Turn off all these other features to get back to terra firma in an effort to effect a change:

Then try relaunching the Finder on the fly and compare your results:

Anthony M Kassir MD wrote:

Leroy, thank you for your reply. I followed your instructions but the problem persists. Any other ideas?

Besides View Option in the Finder>View> View Option dropdown

Control click on the Desktop and make some changes as well(?)

you can try from Terminal.app copy & paste:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop true; killall Finder

compare your results and report back.

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I also have kind of same problem: when I have turned of widgets on desktop I can't move folders or documents to that place (in the upper left corner of my desktop)