Since updating this morning when I move windows around on my cinematic display they JUMP to full screen if I even get close to the top of the screen. How do I make this STOP!
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Sep 28, 2024 11:50 AM in response to d.s.cobb
Thanks for confirming, @d.s.cobb! That's exactly the faulty behavior I had reported via Apple Feedback.
Here, it's a Mac Mini M2 Pro with a Dell UltraSharp 40" monitor (U4021QW). And that turned out to be the problem.
As suggested by Dell, I had installed Dell's DDPM software, and allowed it to open automatically on startup. That software has a feature called EasyArrange which allows, among other things, window tiling just like in Sequoia. I've never used it, though, and wasn't aware it was seemingly turned on (maybe it wasn't). For more than a year, it hasn't caused any issues.
Now that changed when updating to Sequoia. Don't ask me how this is possible, but the new macOS window tiling feature seems to have enabled the DDPM EasyArrange feature, with no way of disabling it.
From there on, fixing the issue was easy: Quit DDPM, and the nasty behavior immediately goes away. Go to Settings, Login Items & Extensions, Open at Login, and remove DDPM, so that it doesn't load on startup. Problem solved. This also explains why most people in this thread didn't encounter the problem the way I did.
I was able to work around this issue by turning on the toggle "Allow only zone positioning when SHIFT key is pressed" within the DDPM EasyArrange settings menu. I can now move windows freely within the Dell monitor without the annoying resizing issue. However, I can have it auto-resize if I hold the SHIFT key which I do like.
I was having the same problem. Did everything they said, and still kept resizing my windows. In frustration I went to desktop and dock and turned off stage manager and it worked. Don't know why but am able to open multiple windows on one screen at once.
PatriceW999 wrote:
Since updating this morning when I move windows around on my cinematic display they JUMP to full screen if I even get close to the top of the screen. How do I make this STOP!
Hold the Option key while hovering over the green pill button and select the option to get out of that mode(?)
for your app window.
or as suggested above turn off the tiling features in Settings.
SG_Airbender wrote:
Ever since I updated to Sequoia Verson 15.3.1 some days ago, the window will still expand when I drag the window upward. But I have already turned off "drag windows to screen edges to tile" function.
Did you disable "Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen"?
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.
My brand new iMac came with Sequoia 15.3, and the automatic resizing has been driving me nuts. I would have returned the machine to the Apple Store, if I hadn't already let them recycle my 14 year old Mac. Thanks to this string, I was finally able to stop it by turning off the Tile by Dragging Windows to Screen Edges. How can this be the default setting???
Upgrading OS version from 15.2 to 15.4.1 is the only thing that helped me.
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.
SG_Airbender wrote:
Ever since I updated to Sequoia Verson 15.3.1 some days ago, the window will still expand when I drag the window upward. But I have already turned off "drag windows to screen edges to tile" function. It's time for Apple to do something about this irritating setting.
Do you by chance have 3rd party software that might cause this?
For example, "Dell's DDPM software has a feature called EasyArrange which allows, among other things, window tiling just like in Sequoia".
Try Settings > Desktop & Dock > Double-click a window's title bar to > Do nothing
See my other post explaining what caused the problem. In my case, it was a combination of Dell's DDPM software (precisely its EasyArrange feature) and updating to Sequoia.
If your window expands to fill the screen, all you have to do is double click on the top part of the window and it goes back to the normal size.
PatriceW999 wrote:
I'm looking at a variety of settings - which one will make the automatic sizing to full screen when I drag a window to the top of the screen?
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/37a0e05e-9f43-4638-aff7-c8f32623f7b2
Tile by dragging windows to screen edges.
You can just choose to not use the suggestion. When the outline appears indicating which tile it is going to drop into, just move the window a little and the Tile will go away.
Jo! wrote:
Jo! wrote:
that does not work.
Is there any way it can be disabled through Terminal?
Anyone??
People who cannot turn it off in Settings report that they have Dell monitor software running which does a very similar thing.
how do I disable automatic window resizing in Sequoia
