how do I disable automatic window resizing in Sequoia

@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?

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

The lesson to learn is to look at edge cases, too. It doesn't help telling people "it works for me and everyone else" when they might have different setups.

I disabled that as soon as I got this version. I have turned off everything that I can find and I still can't get my desktop windows to work right. I have no idea why Apple believes that the only way we will love their x-dates is by turning them on and not mapping how to turn them off. If this were an airplane it would not fly.

if you're running any form of 3rd party window tiling SW - e.g. Dell's DDPM utility that they distribute with their monitors - try uninstalling that and see what happens. That was the problem for a couple of us. Don't know if other tiling utilities might suffer from the same fate.

Good luck!

I did that long ago - but it did NOT help. For some reason my browser windows, Xcode windows, BBEdit windows suddenly "maximized" when I mistakenly dragged the windows too close to the top or left/right edge of the screen.

Only when I completely turned off EVERYTHING there ("Tile by dragging windows to screen edges", "Hold option key while dragging windows to tile" and "Tiled windows have margins") -- only then the dreaded "feature" seems to stop.

dialabrain said: "Disable the Tiling options in System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Windows."

The exact option to disable is Desktop & Dock > Windows > Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen

Thanks dialabrain.

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.

d.s.cobb wrote:

I can assure you, based on 40 years in the Operating System business, …

Well, I can assure you, based on almost 40 years of macOS experience, that lately (last few years) some features ar shoved down our throat, some disappearing again after loads of complaint.

This one is not a bug I guess but intentionally put there, but I hope it is and it will be repaired in the next issue

At least for me in 15.1, I did go to System Settings --> Desktop and Dock --> Windows, but my main aggravation was solved by unchecking "Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen". Thanks for pointing the way, dialabrain!

Feel free to send Apple feedback.

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BDAqua wrote:

Jo!, try this App...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12

but how will an app that seems to do the same and costs money on top of that help me to get rid of the tiling al together? I want the 'old' function of option-klick the green button, which sizes the document to its size, and no more. That function has disappeared (see other post for screenshots)

Is there maybe a possible command through Terminal to switch this off??

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You are not crazy, Paul2727! I have the very same behavior here – Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen will not stay disabled, no matter how many times I toggle it off.

Never mind that it's not at all intuitie to even find these settings in System Settings. How do these Windows features fit under Desktop and Dock??

Jo! wrote:

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!

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/bd7f2e47-e23e-4788-88c4-1ffa48794f54

(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 +

There a few posts that say Dell monitor software causes window tiling. Perhaps you have something installed that is doing it or re-enabling it. It seems the vast majority of users have no issues turning it off.

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.

This doesn't work, at least not on a Mac Mini M2 Pro.