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Some pictures in photos don't go full screen

I double click on a picture to have it fill the window and then arrow through more pictures, and each one fills the window, as well. But recently (months?) a picture will only half fill the window. This photo is not low resolution-- it's maybe 2000x 1500 pixels like the others, but it doesn't fully enlarge. If I hit the space bar it reduces to the thumbnail, and when I then click on it the picture will enlarge to full size. That picture may or may not do it again. I don't see any pattern in which photos enlarge and which don't, and it's rather irritating.


What can I do to make the photos expand properly?


I've got Photos 7.0 and OS 12.3.1 on an M1 MacBook Air.

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Apr 19, 2022 9:03 AM

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Jun 7, 2022 3:55 PM in response to Richard.Taylor

Richard.Taylor wrote:

I usually use Photos as a full sized window with menu bar rather than in "Full Screen" mode, but it's the same either way.

Me too, for every application, FWIW. I've never liked "Full Screen" mode, and wish the green button just maximized the window to maximum size, instead of going to full screen. The green button could be so handy; instead it is the greatest UI disaster since exploding golf balls.


Anyways, back to this bug... looks like there are a lot of changes to Photos in the upcoming Mac OS, so hopefully the many bugs in this current version get some attention paid to them in the next... and not just have a bunch of new bugs added to the old. 🤷‍♂️

Some pictures in photos don't go full screen

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