MacBook Air M2, Extended display

stcmss wrote:

Hi, Phil. I understand the difference between mirroring and extended and use both as necessary.

The question is as stated: the icons on the Air display remain there - they do not move to the extended display when I make it active. But they do on the Intel machine with the same software.

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That is the expected behavior in extended mode unless you have the external display set to "Main Display" from the drop-down.

The "Main Display" will hold desktop icons and the dock.

There are 2 different modes to use an external monitor. Mirroring and Extended.

Mirroring shows the same thing on both devices. windows, icons docks and identical.

Extended adds desktop space to move windows to, but does not move icons and the dock as its extending the desktop not mirroring the screen.

In extended mode windows can be on different screens and are to duplicated lire with mirroring.

If you want it to be mirrored open System Preferences->Displays->Display Settings->"External Display", and select the Mirrored option from the "Use as" dropdown.

Link-> Use one or more external displays with your Mac - Apple Support