Sequoia maximizes window when dragged near the top of the screen

Disable "Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen" in System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Windows.

Dennis_Burnham wrote:

there is no "edge" on either the left or the right side, no matter if this option is on or off. Windows dragged to the side edges simply continue sliding until only a portion of the window remains visible

You are dragging it wrong ... I can repeat either behaviour by a) carelessly dragging to the sides or b) carefully dragging to the sides.

Dragging to the top behaves differently.

> Why Apple felt the need to add this peculiar feature is a mystery to me.

I guess it is the •bullet points• because other OSs have them we must have them too:

"My affection for window tiling is born of muscle memory developed during my time as a PC partisan, which peaked in 2009 and 2010 as Windows 7 was finally breaking a near-decade of Windows XP hegemony. One of Windows 7's best features was Aero Snap, which could quickly resize windows to the left or right halves of your screen with either a quick mouse drag or a keyboard shortcut.

Microsoft has continued to refine the window-snapping idea, and ChromeOS and most of the consumer-friendly Linux distributions have adopted some version of the concept. Now Apple has developed its own take, called window tiling, something it has surely done because of the years I've spent publicly asking for it.

(Dear readers, I know that some of you have an abiding distaste for window snapping/tiling, preferring the precision and predictability of manually managing windows instead; this section is not for you, and the checkbox to disable window tiling in Sequoia is in the System Settings app, under the Windows subheading in Desktop & Dock.)"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/macos-15-sequoia-the-ars-technica-review/#toc-h8

David112570 wrote:

I could not find that option, for me it was;

Disable "Tile by dragging windows to edge of screen" in System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Windows. Maybe it means the same thing, or different country, well if its English it should be the same in all countries.

There are many variations of English. iPhones in the U.S. have a setting called "Cellular". That same setting is called "Mobile" in the UK. You'll note, when you chose a keyboard for any of your devices, that distinctions are made between the versions.

But you'll notice, in this case, that dialabrain has long since accepted a correction from another user. You did read the whole thread, right?

If you hold the command key down as you drag the window it will not snap to full screen.

I could not turn off the feature in System Preferences.

I find it extremely annoying also, but I also find that if you hold down the "Option (or Alt) ⌥" key while dragging, then the tile feature becomes very useful.

I could not find that option, for me it was;

Disable "Tile by dragging windows to edge of screen" in System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Windows. Maybe it means the same thing, or different country, well if its English it should be the same in all countries.

KevinVT wrote:

I toggle it off, and it mysteriously toggles itself back on.

Sequoia 15.2 update fixed that [Drag windows to menubar to fill screen] setting for me. Now that setting is successfully saved and honored.

its tile by dragging window option just turn it off and it will stop the craziness.

Disable the Tiling features in System Settings > Desktop & Dock, under Windows.

In Sequoia 15.1, the options in Settings>Desktop & Dock>Windows is "Drag windows to screen edges to tile" and "Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen." I have both of these options turned off and the annoying behavior continues in Apple Mail and in Safari. I can find no fixes for this.

dialabrain wrote:

Actually, I wasn't wrong. :) I was just testing a different version and Apple changed the wording. Something I hadn't expected. 😮

FWIW in 15.0 there was "Drag windows to screen edges to tile".

And recently 15.1 added "Drag windows to menubar to fill screen".

Below is my preferred setting. I actually like to Option-drag windows to the sides. I'd just wish they could remember those positions because after closing such window it reverts to the dull default.

BTW I noticed that in my setup the "Drag windows to menubar to fill screen" seems to switch to ON by itself but that setting is not honored until I fiddle it to OFF and back ON (and then OFF).

To anyone in this thread experiencing this issue, let me add a discovery I made yesterday after updating my MacOS to Sequoia 15.1 on a Mac Studio and also on a MacBook Air. The behavior is the same on both.

In the Desktop & Dock section of the Settings, you can turn off the option to tile windows when they are dragged to the screen edges, but in my experience there is no such thing as a "screen edge". Regardless whether your system has 1 or more displays, there is no "edge" on either the left or the right side, no matter if this option is on or off. Windows dragged to the side edges simply continue sliding until only a portion of the window remains visible, unless an additional display allows the window to move to that display entirely, and then the same thing applies when the window is dragged to the edge of that window. Likewise for "bottom" edges of screens.

In regard to any "top edge" my experience is that menu bars prevent windows from being dragged beyond the menu bar, unless you forcefully drag the window to go beyond the menu bar, in which case Mission Control is invoked to enable you to locate the window on an alternate desktop "space".

Now, in regard to the second option for making windows will the screen when dragged to the menu bar, my experience on both my Macs is the same. If you turn off the option and close the System Settings, you will find that it turns itself back on again when System Settings is re-opened. Consequently, the Mac is always expanding windows to fill the entire screen ... (to quote Donald Trump) "whether you like it or not."

Why Apple felt the need to add this peculiar feature is a mystery to me. The green dot in the upper left corner of any window already did this nicely enough.

Feel free to share your thoughts with Apple on the matter. Personally I've had no problems with Tiling.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

The snapping occurs whether one presses the option key or not. This is the most frustrating and annoying "feature" I have experienced on MasOC since 5.1.

What was Apple thinking just to keep up with the Joneses? Snapping is just as annoying on WIndows. Why did Apple think it had to cover that sad song?

Ivie would not have approved.