how do I disable automatic window resizing in Sequoia

Another terrible 'default on' feature that nobody asked for. Now disabled.

I have a similar problem!

I recently upgraded to Sequoia.

Yes, I could not resist, though the advice was to not bother - most options do not work here in NL. I am an 'ancient' Mac user ☀️, started in 1991, my first Macs were a plus and a Macintosh II with macOS 4, and back in the days, a new os was quite a thing and you couldn't wait to find out what all the new features were.

I first noticed the problem in Pages.

What I do when I open a template from Pages is change the appearance.

Somehow pages needs to open standard with the info-sidebar on the right (very annoying! 😡 - wish I could change that too).

The first thing I do, for lack of an alternative, is press option-command-"I" which makes the sidebar go away. Next thing I do (or did) is click on the green button with the optionkey pressed. I still changes to a "+", but now does something completely different (even more annoying! 😡 😡 😡)

Before (Sonoma and previous) the window of the file would then fit the size of the document. Now it does not do that, even though I have all options in settings switched off (who needs it anyway??? 😕 👎).

Million dollar Question:

Is there a way, maybe through terminal, to 'kill' it all together?

This thing actually would be a reason for me to downgrade, if that were possible!, since this interrupts my workflow badly!

Before Sequoia I had the latest version of Sonoma which did not have this problem.

My Mac:

thank you for your patience and help!!

Thanks you a million times over. It worked for me too. This feature is very very annoying.

all very well, but that does not address the fact that a function of the green blob on the left topcorner has changed, and cannot be reverted, even not with the functions of tiling etc in the system settings switched of.

Before Sequoia (Sonoma and earlier) pressing the option-key changed the green ting to a +, meaning it would size the window (fe a pages document) nicely to its size, and no more. This function has disappeared. there is still a ≠ appearing, but I still get these tiling-options: there is no difference!

so either I am being annoying, or there is something wrong here!

(my system is Dutch, but the functions are the same.

As of Nov 13, 2024, "Tile by dragging windows to screen edges" no longer exists. It has been replaced by two control buttons; “Drag windows to screen edges to tile” and “Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen”. The button “Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen” is buggy in that it will not stay Off. When you close "System Settings" and reopen, it will turn itself back On.

it's not only to do with 'like' - I can handle that, I do know my way around the system to apply settings. …

What the problem is here is that this feature cannot be switched off, even when all the appropriate sliders are in the 'off' state!

(Sorry … Dutch)

I cannot really simulate the old state with the green button (… it has disappeared), but the current state DOES look like it could be a bug, or at least a design error: both state ar similar, with or without the +

Garbage feature. Thank god I finally disabled this.

I completely agree. SW interoperability and compatibility is an incredibly complex subject, so you need to be able to take a look at a lot of different configs and user experiences to make these determinations. Thanks for the help.

CesareMedici wrote:

@dialabrain It's a Sequoia issue in any case. Why would Dell's DDPM software start behaving differently from how it did for more than a year?

Because macOS Sequoia changed and Dell's software didn't.

I'm not blaming Apple for this, but any major change can have inadvertent consequences.

Apple does not write macOS and add features to stay compatible with third-party software. It's up to third-party software vendors to remain compatible with the latest versions. It's very simple.

Quanxi wrote:

Thanks for this help. I hated this. The feature might be great, but dumb thing to make it default.

Love to customize things. But please, let us choose what we want.

Apple has never made a new feature off by default. Maybe the Application Firewall, but that’s completely useless so maybe doesn’t count.

OMG this was irritating. I have a 49" curved monitor and having everything span the entirety of the screen was awful, it always took a little bit extra to fix it. Going to the system settings and turning off tiling was the cure. I did double check that the DDPM software wasn't there and it wasn't thank goodness.

The resizing behavior happens to me any time I try to move a window, whether it hits the top of the screen or not.

The window tiling feature of Sequoia doesn't do that. It should only do that when you hit an edge. Even then, it doesn't tile unless you release it with the tile showing. Move a little and the tile marquee disappears.

D.S. Cobb: Thanks for your solution! I disabled tiling, but that didn't work. I had no idea it would be the monitor until I read your post. I have a Dell and followed your instructions and the automatic resizing stopped.

cgapperi wrote:

Wouldn’t that be nice if it was true. I am not the only one here reporting the issue. I rarely get the marquee. It just resizes. The whole 48”. I have tried always moving down first just to be sure it isn’t resizing as a result of hitting the top. Nope. Doesn’t help.

I’ve also seen reported here where people with Dell monitors have some sort of software installed. That does automatically resize the window when you move it.There is a momentary delay before the marquee appears and if you only delay that long and it is essentially popping up, but you don’t see it Then it would do that to you and appear to be instantaneous, but it’s not

That does not show the original behavior of the green button from before sequoia.

optionkey down used to allow window resizing as a toggle: this way it was easy to fit a document exactly in its own window.

is there no one who knows if it is possible to turn it of in terminal??