lucylemon93

Q: Split View of Messages: How to show all chats at once?

This is probably a silly question, but I have upgraded to El Capitan on my Macbook Pro. On Apple's website, it shows messages in split view where you can see all of your different messages. However, when I try to do split view with messages and another app, the messages only show one particular message and not all of them. If that makes sense? Basically I want messages to appear like they do on Apple's website showing split view, not just one specific thread. If anyone knows how to do this please let me know!

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Sep 30, 2015 6:21 PM

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  • by phredrixxx,Helpful

    phredrixxx phredrixxx Oct 6, 2015 11:48 AM in response to lucylemon93
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    Oct 6, 2015 11:48 AM in response to lucylemon93

    Unfortunately, I think it depends on the display/monitor you're using. I also have a MBP (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) and the list to see all of the messages are not there either. In fact, I can't even make the Messages app "half" of the screen with most other apps (namely Spotify).

    BUT, when I move those two apps over to my 22" or 30" monitors, both apps take up half of the screen (and I'm able to adjust the width of both).

     

    My guess is the design dept. at Apple either wanted to use one of the new and shiny gold Macbooks, or the difference of the default Late 2013 MBP's aspect ratio of 16:9 makes that much of a difference from the new Macbook's 16:10 ratio.

     

    If you adjust your scaled resolution (I changed mine from default to the right most "More Space" option), I was then able to get the desired effect.


    These may help

    Use two Mac apps side by side in Split View - Apple Support

    OS X El Capitan: Adjust your display’s resolution