Tahoe introduced window centring as a feature but it's really annoying. I like my main window to be on the left so I can see the icons of files on the desktop on the right. Is there a way to move the default position, or simply to have it open where it last was (for minimised windows)?
Mac Studio, macOS 26.0
Centering or tiled on the left side are the options that Apple provides:
Tile windows on Mac - Apple Support
No way for the user to change those, only Apple can do so. To have Apple consider your feedback, submit it here:
FWIW, when I minimize a Finder window (to the Dock), it reopens in the position on the Desktop where it was before minimizing it. Does your Mac not do that? Perhaps not if you use automatic tiling options.
Centering or tiled on the left side are the options that Apple provides:
Tile windows on Mac - Apple Support
No way for the user to change those, only Apple can do so. To have Apple consider your feedback, submit it here:
FWIW, when I minimize a Finder window (to the Dock), it reopens in the position on the Desktop where it was before minimizing it. Does your Mac not do that? Perhaps not if you use automatic tiling options.
Is Stage Manager enabled? Your description sounds like what Stage Manager does. It puts the active app "center stage." I found it to be one of Apple's most useless features in about 10 seconds of use.
Desktop & Dock System Settings.
FWIW, some apps reopen at the same position and size as they were when closed. All apps open in the same position and size after being minimized then expanded. All the ones I have at any rate.
Yes, that's fine for minimised windows. If I'm on a phone call though and need to refer to multiple and diverse information from different apps I need the info from each app/window to be visible without being the main window or being minimised. I also prefer the functionality where windows open in the same size and location as you closed them in eg when opening a new Finder window. Thanks for the feedback link - on the Apple website there is no visible way to place a comment about the OS itself, only the hardware, or the apps.
Yes, I was wondering how Apple planned to sell larger models of iMacs or screens if they insisted on treating desktop users as if they were on an iPhone. Story of the last 5 to 10 years though, a steady deprecation of desktop requirements for the lower and often dumbed down iOS methods of presentation - like the tiling feature is a direct copy of something M$ implemented years ago.
Basilisk2 wrote:
I also prefer the functionality where windows open in the same size and location as you closed them in eg when opening a new Finder window.
Did you mean a new Finder window or a new Desktop?
Basilisk2 wrote:
Thanks for the feedback link - on the Apple website there is no visible way to place a comment about the OS itself, only the hardware, or the apps.
Not sure what that means, the link provided is exactly that, for macOS.
Basilisk2 wrote:
It means that if you go to the apple website before coming here there is no link to report feedback about MacOS itself.
Apple website feedback options
I was giving you a compliment...
Sure there is:
You just have to scroll way down the page, which is why I provided the direct link to macOS feedback..
Clicking on the link in your reply then zooming out:
It means that if you go to the apple website before coming here there is no link to report feedback about MacOS itself.
Apple website feedback options
I was giving you a compliment...
How to change the default position for a window ie not in the centre
