Mission control shows tiny windows

wowonline wrote:

MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023; Chip Apple M2 Pro; Memory 32GB; MacOS 13.4 (22F66)

I have experienced this problem many times and it annoys me a lot because I have to reboot macbok often

I'm here to report bug and get a solution ...

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macOS 13.4 ....(?) from 5/18/2023 I would say you are woefully outdated.

The current stable release of your—

Ventura including bug fixes & security updates is macOS 13.6.7 (May 13, 2024) - I would start there

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support  

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

wowonline wrote:

After 5 days, I can say that updating the system helped solve the problem. The windows are no longer shrinking in size. Thank you!

Good computing wowonline —thanks for the upvote

wowonline wrote:

At some point, the windows in mission control become small. A couple of times they became so small that it was very difficult to find the windows I needed.

An example of such problem:

Ordinary mission control behavior

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/e965f619-a5d1-4470-bb4c-66d56aa97653

unexpected behavior

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/c8f6ad86-c3b7-4084-a997-8ee7b41fd4e4

As you can see, it becomes much more difficult to see what is written in the application windows.

But this size of windows is not the limit. Sometimes they get even smaller.

Rebooting the system solves the problem, but not for long. After some time the windows become like that again. I can't reboot the system too often, because it interferes with my work.

There's screencast of situation when windows are extremely small:

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Please review the function of Mission Control:

"Mission Control shows all of the windows open on the desktop of your Mac, arranged in a single layer so it’s easy to spot the one you need. "

ref: See open windows and spaces in Mission Control on Mac

What exact Mac is this...

What exact macOS is this...

Old issue, new issue, what changed...

This window looks odd to me in your example of "Ordinary mission control behavior:

whats going on here?

Have you quit all apps, shut down and restarted?

Whats on Desktop 2... close all but one Desktop and compare your results...

The more app windows open the smaller they will be displayed in Mission Control—

If you think you have an issue you can try a SafeBoot to sort anomalies(?)

A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled temporarily.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.