Have to click Music icon twice before the app displays

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Have to click Music icon twice before the app displays

Recently the behaviour of starting the Music app by clicking on its icon has changed.

I am running a MacBook Pro 16-inch (2019) on macOS Monterey.

Previously when I clicked on the Music icon in the Dock the Music app would start and display its window to me (a behavioural characteristic that I would describe as entirely normal and what one would expect). However, at some point over the last 6 months this behaviour has changed. Now when I click on the Music icon that app window never displays; I have to click on the icon a second time before the window displays. What conceivable reason would suggest this behaviour is acceptable?

For clarification, I am only seeing behaviour with the Music app (I understand others have reported similar behaviour with other apps e.g. Mail).

Surely this is a bug in macOS? Apple, please fix this as it is really really annoying having to click on an icon twice to indicate that I actually want to see the window of the app that I have just started.

Posted on Feb 20, 2022 12:00 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 20, 2022 2:55 AM in response to wgibson75

I have not seen this, but for full disclosure I don’t use the Dock.

Is this happening only with Music and no other applications?

Try restarting in Safe Mode. Does the same thing happen in Safe Mode? Doest it recur after you the restart normally?

Also, does the same happen in a different user account?

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Feb 20, 2022 6:41 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

This is only happening with Music.

Also, this is not specifically related to launching the app from the Dock (for example, I get the same behaviour when launching it by clicking on the Music icon under Applications in Finder or whatever other file manager you're using e.g. ForkLift).

In summary, regardless of how Music is launched, whenever it initially launches I never see the application window unless I attempt to launch it again. Another point to note is that after Music initially launches and its window remains hidden, I do see the Music menu shown at the top of the screen. I can then trigger the application window to be displayed by selecting Window -> Music. My fundamental point is.... why are so many interactions required just to see the main Music window when it used to display on initial launch? It's really messed up in my opinion and as I've previously stated it never used to behave like this.

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