I have Catalina. It seems that now, whenever I maximize an app (click the little green button at top left), the main menu bar disappears.
I do not like this. At all. I want the menu bar to behave as in previous versions, where it remains visible with maximized apps, and only hides when doing something full screen, like playing a video.
How can I restore this? I hope there's a way.
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15
This is a feature of Full Screen.
Your option is exit full screen mode and hold the option key and click the green pill button— to expand the window to take up the entirety of the screen—this is different then Full Screen Mode, and allows for the menubar to be persistent.
You other option here—
>System Preferences>General>Auto hide and show Menu Bar
Use apps in full screen on Mac - Apple Support
I believe both of you may have misunderstood what my problem is. If I failed to explain it clearly, I apologize. Let me see if I can explain it more clearly.
Previous MacOS versions:
Catalina:
The behavior of what happens when I click the green button in Catalina is distinctly different from what I remember happening with every MacOS I've experienced for the past ten years.
I have tried that setting, the auto hide and show menu bar setting, and that makes it worse. That makes it so the menu bar is ALWAYS hidden unless I move the pointer to the top of the screen.
When you switch to full screen mode the application's menu bar disappears to maximize the full screen effect. Been this way for years. If you want the application menu bar, bump your mouse pointer against the top of the screen, and the application menus will reappear.
Neither of them misunderstood your post. The behavior of the green button has changed from what you remember. All you have to do is hold the option key then click the green button.
If you prefer, open System Preferences > Dock and set "Double-click a window's title bar to" zoom.
I'll have to disagree that they didn't misunderstand, because neither answer seemed to be relevant to what I was asking about. Your response is.
Can I make the green button revert to what it used to be? I want it to work the way it worked for years until now. I don't want to have to change my behavior.
He also said, "When you switch to full screen mode." I wasn't switching to full screen mode. I was trying to maximize the app. That was my entire point. I was performing the action that in the past, "for years" to quote the other reply, maximized, not switched to full screen.
If there's no way to change the function of the green button back to what it's been "for years" then I'm done here. If anyone has anything useful to add, I'm glad to read it.
If there's no way to change the function of the green button back to
what it's been "for years" then I'm done here. If anyone has anything
useful to add, I'm glad to read it.
You don't have to change anything, just double click in a apps menu bar—no green pill needed— to expand the window to maximum.
No, there's no way to change it.
You're welcome to disagree. However, leroy said the same thing in so many words…
"Your option is exit full screen mode and hold the option key and click the green pill button".
Don't hide menu bar with maximized apps
