External drive icon keeps moving on Mac desktop in macOS 15.5 Sequoia

Hi leroydouglas

I am sure you are right and to many users it doesn't matter. It does matter to me because I am used to navigate all my drives via their desktop mounted icons. I also know it's a simple thing but one Apple needs to fix and this has been broken for quite some time. It is surprising to me and it should be to most people how long Apple has been ignoring this issue.

Hi den.thed

I did it as you recommended one more time and increased the grid spacing even more beyond the size of the icons. It seems like it was going to work for a while and then the drive just moved across the screen the way it always does. Unfortunately it didn't work for me - again.

Hi den.thed,

For a short while it seemed like it was working but it then moved just as it did so many times before. I have tried everything but nothing seems to work. In other words, band-aids won't work if the only solution is for Apple to do what is right and fix what is broken. I will refrain (at least for now) from saying anything negative about Apple but only that I find it incomprehensible that his issue has been going on (since the previous OS, I believe) and they still haven't fixed it.

Hi den.thed,

First, I can't thank you enough for all your help and the many replies with suggestions on how to fix this problem. I really appreciate your help.

I did update to the latest version of Sequoia and thought for a brief while that it had solved the problem. However, I turned the computer off at night and when I turned it back on the following day the drive had moved again.

As for the feedback to Apple, I will consider your recommendation. I am just not sure it will do anything. Apple has become just like Microsoft and I don't mean it as a compliment.

Hi Limnos,

I appreciate your help but feel the information on this thread is not correct. For some reason the moderator changed the title of my post and mentioned I am experiencing a problem with my external drive. This is not the case. The icon I referred to on my original post is the icon to my one and only internal hard disk. Having said this, I have also connected external drives to this computer and their icons also move. In other words, icons to hard disks or hard drives, whether internal or external don't stay where I place them.

Hi den.thed,

No, this is not an accurate description of what I am experiencing. First the problem is not with the external drive but the internal one, the only drive installed on my Mac. It doesn't also happen to external drives whenever I mount them but the problem I reported was/is related to the internal drive. For some reason the moderator has changed the title of my topic and included the word external in it rather than internal.

In addition, nothing is moved to the location of the drive's icon, internal or external. The icon moves from the upper right hand corner of my screen to another location and that spot remains empty - nothing takes its place. The same happens to the external drive's icon whenever I have one connected. Both icons, internal and external, are moved to a different location and the place they occupied on the screen remains empty.

I have changed grid size, changed icon size and changed text size but nothing seems to work. In all fairness, I have never (I have been using the Mac since it was released more than 40 years ago) experienced an issue like this one and can't remember grid size, icon size and text size interfering with the organization of desktop files and/or icons on my screen.

Hi den.thed,

I am not using multiple displays, only a single Dell 43" 4K monitor. This is the only monitor I have and the same one I have used for a while with previous versions of Mac OS.

As for games, I don't play them and don't have a single one installed in my computer.

den.thed,

It still doesn't work. Despite the changes in grid spacing and the size of the text, the drive's icon is still moving.

den.thed,

Yes, it's still moving even after the upgrade to the latest OS. I've also changed the size of the text and grid spacing per your recommendations.