Sequoia maximizes window when dragged near the top of the screen

For me, this is part of a trend in Apple that has existed for years. To bring Windows functionalities to the Mac (in the worst possible way). By doing this it ruins the Mac experience, which is why I have loved Macs for decades.

To all the Windows converts who try to change the mac. Stay with Microsoft if you like this stupid behaviour so much.

And don't praise Mr Ive for things he wouldn't have prevented?! His time also saw total stagnation in mac hardware development.

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Kaze68 wrote:

For me, this is part of a trend in Apple that has existed for years. To bring Windows functionalities to the Mac (in the worst possible way). By doing this it ruins the Mac experience, which is why I have loved Macs for decades.

To all the Windows converts who try to change the mac. Stay with Microsoft if you like this stupid behaviour so much.

And don't praise Mr Ive for things he wouldn't have prevented?! His time also saw total stagnation in mac hardware development.

You can let Apple know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

dialabrain wrote:

Indeed. A faux pas on my part. 😎

It always takes me a while to memorize new settings. And, certainly, even though you were wrong, it was probably enough to send most people in the right direction. DavidHilt1 was very polite about it.

I've noticed this behavior since updating to Sequoia a few weeks after it was introduced and it's quite annoying; it seems to have gotten worse with the latest update of 15.0.1. So when I open a second Finder window and try to separate them to transfer files it just keeps snapping back full screen--very annoying. I'm glad there's a solution, which I will try now.

On October 16 I unchecked "Tile by dragging windows to screen edges" and it solve the problem, until now I noticed it's back again the only difference is there was a Xcode update to Sequoia a few few days ago. It's still unchecked but the behavior is still happening again, very annoying. Is there any other setting that can stop it or is it a new bug?

Red and Blue wrote:

On October 16 I unchecked "Tile by dragging windows to screen edges" and it solve the problem, until now I noticed it's back again the only difference is there was a Xcode update to Sequoia a few few days ago. It's still unchecked but the behavior is still happening again, very annoying. Is there any other setting that can stop it or is it a new bug?

There is Dell monitor software that also does that.

When it was happening recently it only happened when the edge of the window was dragged all the way past the right edge of the screen, and I had two windows open (PDFs). But I just tried it again now and it's not doing that anymore so maybe it was a temporary glitch.

The drag windows to menu bar fill screen must've been what happened accidentally when I was testing earlier today the drag windows to the screen edges to tile which was now honoring the off position, but at one point the window and luxury the edges of the screen--I must have accidentally dragged it over the menu bar. I will now follow your procedure to turn it off, although it may already be working in the on position as I experienced.

I've also had this problem since the Sequoia upgrade. I've tried everything I could find on the internet, but it's impossible to: Either make the tiling work properly OR deactivate the behavior, even when I deactivate all the toggles, I still have the problem, and when I restart my computer it's toggle on again.

It's unbearable, I feel like throwing away my desktop every time it glitch...

kéba wrote:

it's toggle on again

I see the same (see above my previous comment) -- but it does not take effect at least on my setup ("Drag windows to menubar to fill screen" seems to switch to ON by itself but that setting is not honored).

ChiWarbler wrote:

It IS annoying when it's pushed on you automatically when you aren't expecting it. Yes, yes it is annoying.

I agree. But on the other hand I now very often use the Option-drag tiling. I guess I would not have discovered it if tiling was disabled by default.

But who wants to add holding down another key to do something that wasn't necessary before? Grrr

Btw, I did find the toggle to turn it off and thank goodness it's no longer doing it. iMac 2019 Sequoia 15.1

Tiling is not a bad thing. It's actually quite useful which is why people do pay for the ability to do it. The thing that makes this so annoying on the Mac is that it is triggered by simply moving a window to the top of the screen. It is also annoying that it was enabled by default, but mainly because of this unbelievably bad design. It would be completely different if you triggered the "fill screen" tile option by dragging a window to the top of the screen and then holding the mouse button for several seconds without moving it. Then it would switch from an accidental action to a deliberate action.

yes for me as well it is annoying and frustrating. I found out a way to undo it and then with an update it went back to automatic expanded windows!

Perhaps some like this BUT if so they can choose it. I hope the next update undoes the automatic expanded windows without a users choice.

for now I have to figure out agian how to undo this and it is not a intuitive thing to figure out

Glad you found a solution.