Mac randomly changes display arrangements on its own.

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Mac randomly changes display arrangements on its own.

How do you prevent the macos from occasionally changing or resetting the display arrangement on its own upon waking up or a reboot?

Posted on Sep 26, 2020 7:50 AM

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den.thed

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Sep 26, 2020 8:03 AM in response to fixtheproblem1982

Go to Apple > System Preferences > Mission Control > un-check "Automatically rearrange spaces" and "Displays have separate spaces" to see if that helps.

FWIW I have a couple of different Mac's with dual displays and I run those with all of the Mission Control boxes un-checked.

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Oct 4, 2020 3:42 PM in response to den.thed

My automatic rearrange spaces was already unchecked, but perhaps that was actually the problem since the last half of that setting is "based on most recent use". So I checked it and it thus far seems to have resolved it, but only time will tell as it wasn't a completely predictable or repeatable bug.

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den.thed

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Oct 4, 2020 4:46 PM in response to fixtheproblem1982

Thanks for the update.

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Mac randomly changes display arrangements on its own.

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