Move close/minimize buttons in any window to the right side

I know there was a couple of years ago a question about this but is there any news about it ?


Did apple finally implemented this ? Is there a way to move these buttons to their natural position ?


Thank you

Mac mini, macOS 13.2

Posted on May 16, 2023 4:13 AM

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Posted on May 16, 2023 4:34 AM

Thanks everybody for feedback.


Luis I am not locked into any ecosystem and using multiple OS majority of them use the opposite. When working on Mac always reaching for the wrong corner :) and it is very annoying.


Sure it is not natural for everybody but at-least give us an option and let the user choose what is best for him :).



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May 16, 2023 4:34 AM in response to Adrian9854

Thanks everybody for feedback.


Luis I am not locked into any ecosystem and using multiple OS majority of them use the opposite. When working on Mac always reaching for the wrong corner :) and it is very annoying.


Sure it is not natural for everybody but at-least give us an option and let the user choose what is best for him :).



May 16, 2023 4:48 AM in response to PRP_53

Sure but as someone who is paying for Apple product I think we should have a choice. Anyway, there is no need in "flogging a dead horse".


Apple do not care, they did not provide this feature.


Thanks everybody.


PS: When majority of OS move buttons to the bottom, Apple should provide that feature too, why not, we are paying for it after all.

Jul 10, 2023 12:48 PM in response to dialabrain

Interesting you don't think you're paying for the OS <- not directly for certain - but Apple hardware is "reassuringly expensive" - I wonder could the extra cost per performance unit be due to a proprietary locked in OS? One might expect that this kind of UX/CX option would be basic nowadays (not all "creatives" left handed) - perhaps they can't afford the overhead cost as they "give away" the OS?

May 16, 2023 4:22 AM in response to Adrian9854

Natural to you, maybe… as a mac user since 1985 (oh boy, I am old 😎) it doesn’t seem natural to me.


but anyway, how often do people even click those buttons? Me: hardly ever. Command-W to close is easier than hitting the red button. I don’t do full screen but it can be done with Command-Control-F. Minimizing: double click the window bar anywhere.


If one is programming an application, there are all the resources to create your own window types and custom behaviors. Some kind of system extension that would change all windows may be possible to create, but it is much more complicated and it won’t come from Apple, for sure.

May 16, 2023 4:58 AM in response to Adrian9854

Adrian9854 wrote:

Sure but as someone who is paying for Apple product I think we should have a choice. Anyway, there is no need in "flogging a dead horse".

Apple do not care, they did not provide this feature.

Thanks everybody.

PS: When majority of OS move buttons to the bottom, Apple should provide that feature too, why not, we are paying for it after all.

Perhaps one of the other contributors can clarify this.


But I do not remember the Last time I PAID for a version of macOS


So the assertion of " Paid " is a bit off


We pay for the Devices but the OS itself, Not.

Jul 10, 2023 1:20 PM in response to Adrian9854

A bit late in the game here, but I tend to agree with you that Apple could have offered us the opportunity to change some of the user interface characteristics ... but, apparently, chose to limit what can be changed by the user. At the opposite extreme, a number of Linux variants do provide this. I happen to like "playing" with Debian/Plasma. With it, I have literally hundreds of interface options, including where those button will go (& even look like).


FWIW, my first Apple was a IIc. The next was a Mac mini in 2006, running OS X Tiger. I can concur with others here, that those buttons have been on the left side, at least, since then. Although I don't have the link handy, I know that there is a website where you can run rudimentary versions of Mac operating systems from well before OS X, and see for yourself if you are interested.

Dec 11, 2023 6:53 AM in response to dialabrain

Linux distributions (more specifically the various GUI incarnations within those distributions) have some defaults as to frames and button placement, but there is a monstrous amount of flexibility to make the system look more like Windows, Mac, or whatever. So, buttons up/down/left/right - it is all customer choice.

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