how do I disable automatic window resizing in Sequoia

I had no trouble disabling tiling.

So, so very annoying feature indeed!!!

Oh thank God ! Thank you for answering and helping me out - I hated it.

You're a Star !

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.

Thanks for the tip, dialabrain. Who even asked for this feature? The most annoying thing Apple have added in recent years.

System Settings > Desktop & Dock > turn off "Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen"

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 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.