Great tips for a new Mac user like me. I discovered that double clicking on an empty area at the top of the window does the same thing as zoom. It also expands the window to the size it needs to be to fit all the content.
OMG thank you! The option/tile to change to "move" window to right/left is gold! I'm used to Windows OS. I have to say, I love Apple but man is it WAY easier to configure windows in Windows! Especially Windows 11 (you drag to the top of the screen and are now given different layouts to select from for 2 windows and more!). I'm a bit disappointed in Mac OS for not being as easy to use for this.
Nice. Longtime Mac user. The ability to do side by side but still have the menu bar is gold; the lack of it Is the main thing I hate about full screen or the standard split view. Thanks for the tip. You’ve earned a sub.
i thought to myself, there is no way i dont already know all the window tricks (as a power user)... i got schooled again! Gary, you are the man! i'm always learning new things from your channel. love the Option + corner resize click to maximize!! great tips, keep it up!
Double click just what I needed to raise the window.. thank you ! It wouldn't respond to just trying to move it when the arrows appeared at the top but ok on the corners and sides.
If you want to use the keyboard to control window resizing you must install Magnet or Tiles. This improves MacOs by 1000%. This should be available by default on MacOs honestly.
Very good video! Another way to move windows, that I only learned about today, is that you can hover over any edge and then drag in the same direction as that edge to drag the window, e.g. if you hover over the right side of the window and then drag up or down it will move the window. Very handy now that title bars seem to be a thing of the past for many apps.
I LOVE YOU I have been hating Mac OS (just recently switched form a windows) just because I did not know how to do many of the tricks I knew in windows like how to make a window in the left/right half of the page without entering the full screen mode which I really do not like. I watched other videos but urs is the first one that had this much of info in it. THANKS I'm sharing this video with my friends now and subscribing to this amazing channel!
This is very good and useful. Is there ALSO a way to size and move the window so that it stays in that place and when closed and reopens it retains the location set? E.g. I want to keep Stage Manager visible on the left side, but have my Safari window use all the rest of the available space without blocking the menu and dock bars on top and bottom, and then have it always open in this position, rather than bounce back to a smaller size and having to re-size every time I open Safari?
You can, as the document window would remember. But a browser window isn't showing you a document like that. Instead, just don't ever close that window. Once you do, it is gone and when you create another window it is a NEW window. Using Stage Manager makes this easy as it should go away when you choose another App Set and then return when you choose the App Set with that window.
In macOS Sonoma you can use Split View (3 actions: move to green button, click left, click to choose the second window). In macOS Sequoia you'll be able to do that still, plus drag to left, drag to right like in Windows.
Hi Gary, Great video as always. When i open a finder window, it is very small for my needs. Can i permanently make it to open in a specific size? Thank you in advance!
Been loving all your videos, but the speaking speed of this one is perfect, compared to your recent videos, witch go so fast there's no time to let what your doing sink in properly. Do you have a book with all these great tips available? I am coming from Linux & Windows and find your Mac information priceless. Thank you for what you do...
You know you could control the speed of the video right? There’s speed controls in UA-cam so you could make the video go faster or slower according to your preference.
Hi Gary, in Outlook for instance, when I want to save attachments, the window that opens for selecting the target folder for saving is typically too small, is there a way to permanently specify a bigger size for these windows that would now be the default for these saving operations? Thank you. Beck
Great, but how do you have an application open at a reduced fixed size by default. iMac opens apps in full-screen. It is frustrating. It does not remember the last size (custom) once it was closed.
You verified that resizing windows should work just like on a PC. However, it sure isn't working on my MacBook Air with the most recent OS. I have System Preferences 'window' and a UA-cam 'window' (yours) on the screen, but the diagonal simply does not work on System Preferences, only the up vertical and horizontal. Yet the UA-cam window works all three ways no problem. So, I can't adjust both to each take up half the screen.
I got additional monitor for my Mac. Is there keyboard shortcut to move the windows from one screen to other. (In PC it’s windows + shift + right or left arrow)
Hi! I'm on Big Sur (M1 Mac mini 11.1). I want to change the DEFAULT finder window size. I tried everything online but it still doesn't work! Help?! (I've tried CMD drag the window, the "relaunch", option drag and "relaunch"). Am I missing something?
Is there a way to revert an app/window back to its original size? lets say I double-click to go full size then I "tile window to left" or whatever, then I want to re-size it back to its original size the first time I open the app.
I'd like to do that, but I cannot seem to open 2 windows for apps at same time. If I have Chrome active and i click Notes, Chrome shows as a big icon at the left hand side and Notes becomes active. If I then click the icon for Chrome again, Notes goes into the left hand side.
Hi Gary! Love your videos! I however have a problem. And only you would know how to fix that. I have an iMac 27 inch OSX v10.10.5. I have a screen that does not fit fully to my screen. There is a 1/8" blank area on the top of my screen and would like to stretch my screen window to fit? Is there a way to do it? Please advise! Thank you! RB.
If you have a secondary monitor, and a window is fully expanded in that monitor, I find I cannot drag a new window from my laptop onto my secondary monitor until I minimise the expanded window. Is there a way around this? Im always presenting and its a pain always having to minimise the window so I can drag things over into the screen im sharing.
My guess is that you are not expanding the window in the first place, but perhaps switching it to Full Screen Mode, which is different. Don't take it into Full Screen Mode (clicking the green button) but simply resize the window to the edges of the screen (Option+double click a corner of the window for a quick way to do that).
When I drag a window onto external monitor it opens overlapping each edge of the screen . By moving the window over I can grab the edge and drag it in a bit and then centre the window to make it fit. Is there anyway to fix this setting? The next time I open the window on the external monitor it reverts back to being over width again.
Hi Gary, Can you please help me with regards to making some changes to my default video player when using Mac Catalina. I have followed a few instruction videos in UA-cam and I have tried this but it isn't working at all. If you can please get back to me I will then explain to you what is actually happening. Thanks Gary much appreciated. Regards John E
One thing you didnt mention is what to do about the top edge of the display when there is an island (the camera). Example is on a macbook air. The island at the top middle prevents the window from being "dragged or expanded" beyond the lower edge of the island, not the actual display... I know I can make the window "full screen" and that will get around the island. Times i want a window to be as large as i can make it, but not full screen mode. How do i expand a window "behind' the island? And i have one other question...this is the MOST frustrating issue OF ALL for me in using an Apple computer: Finding the source of the audio that I hear playing. Often, I will have multiple tabs open on a browser window...and...often I will have multiple browser windows open. Lets assume I have 5 different Browser windows open and each has 30 tabs. The tabs are so small, they cant be read. I watch a video and hear the sound from one of the browser windows, from one of the tabs. And, i watch another video Play...etc. BUT NOW, my earbuds have launched one of the previous videos, its playing, i can hear it...BUT I CAN NOT FIND WHERE THAT VIDEO IS?? I CANT FIND THE VIDEO TO STOP IT FROM PLAYING! I now have to go to each window, open EACH tab, to see if it is THAT window and THAT tab where the video is playing...!? There MUST be a better way?? HELP!! SERIOUSLY! I CANT BE THE ONLY ONE HAVING THIS ISSUE...and I hope there is a simple solution you might know of how to reverse engineer the audio Im hearing...
I can't expand the window behind the notch. It helps to think of that space as for the Menu Bar only, or to think of it not as a notch but as extra space to the left and right of the camera (which is what it really is -- earlier MacBooks simply have a camera notch that goes all the way across the screen, right?) In Safari you should see the audio icon in the tabs that have audio.
I get very busy n move fast…multiple windows to organize my thoughts on that window w multiple tabs on each window means…on a MacBook Air, 13” display, the tabs get busy and smaller smaller until I can’t even see if a tab has the little speaker, so going window my window looking for a tab with a tiny little speaker is impractical. Just having to go thru the windows manually searchin for a tab just seem silly, no? There have been time I had to close EVERY TAB, on every window to end the video from playing. There must be a faster more efficient n effective way to find video playing?
Re the island, there is an app that I came across a month ago that allows you to spread open windows by dragging the edge of the window up to the edge of the display, “behind” the island…as if the island was not there…and now I can’t find that app…?
Window management is the worst feature in the Mac. The default window size in Finder is always ~25% which is ridiculous. Having to manually resize each and every window is beyond annoying.
The window management in macOS is complete garbage.The system doesn't even remember the custom window size or position for certain apps, which is a problem specifically for macOS and doesn't occur on MS Windows or in any desktop environment for GNU/Linux. Pathetic, Apple.
Window size and position are always remembered. I suppose a third-party app may have a bug. Or, you could be referring to the Finder, which remembers but people often misunderstand how it works. See ua-cam.com/video/nKXCjD4HdpY/v-deo.html
@@macmost I have several apps that doesn't remember the custom window size or position. Even some default apps by Apple such as Keynotes, Pages and Numbers doesn't even remember it. I've always had this problem with different apps in completely different versions of macOS/OS X. I never had this problem in MS windows or GNU/Linux though. Only in macOS.
@@GoolagThemTube It wouldn't be the "app" that remembers anything. It is the document. So if you reopen the same document it should open with a window that size in that position. Open another document, or create a new one, and it wouldn't be in that size or position.
@@macmost Document? No, it obviously has to do with the window management in macOS and it's either a problem with the apps themselves or macOS, because I'm not just talking about Word processors and stuff like that. It happens with all kind of apps. Web browsers, Music players etc etc. And like i said, it's only a problem in macOS and no other OS.
Option double click on corner is a blessing for windows users. Thanks a ton Gary.
I've been searching for this for so long and couldn't find the answer until this video. It made my transition to mac so much less frustrating
Great tips for a new Mac user like me.
I discovered that double clicking on an empty area at the top of the window does the same thing as zoom. It also expands the window to the size it needs to be to fit all the content.
Thank you! Looking for how to make the window fill the maximum space was driving me crazy! ❤
Thanks, Gary. Always learn something new. This time it was the double clicking. That is really useful.
Did not know about Option + double click until now. Basically the Mac equivalent of the Windows Maximize button. Thanks so much!
Gary, your videos are a blessing to new Mac users like me. God bless you!
OMG thank you! The option/tile to change to "move" window to right/left is gold! I'm used to Windows OS. I have to say, I love Apple but man is it WAY easier to configure windows in Windows! Especially Windows 11 (you drag to the top of the screen and are now given different layouts to select from for 2 windows and more!). I'm a bit disappointed in Mac OS for not being as easy to use for this.
You answered so many of the questions I have when using my MacBook Pro, Gary! Thank you!!
Coming from Windows and Chrome OS, these tips are very helpful for a new Mac user.
Nice. Longtime Mac user. The ability to do side by side but still have the menu bar is gold; the lack of it Is the main thing I hate about full screen or the standard split view. Thanks for the tip.
You’ve earned a sub.
i thought to myself, there is no way i dont already know all the window tricks (as a power user)... i got schooled again! Gary, you are the man! i'm always learning new things from your channel. love the Option + corner resize click to maximize!! great tips, keep it up!
So, how do I resize a window and have it open in that new size after being closed? Mine seem to reopen in the original size
Thanks Gary, great channel
Yes, I have always wanted to know that as well?
I hope we have an answer soon. I have searched and it's very messy in terms of what info you find.
Double click just what I needed to raise the window.. thank you ! It wouldn't respond to just trying to move it when the arrows appeared at the top but ok on the corners and sides.
THANK YOU IT WORKED!!!!
If you want to use the keyboard to control window resizing you must install Magnet or Tiles. This improves MacOs by 1000%.
This should be available by default on MacOs honestly.
I am nowhere new to macos and I still learned alot here!
Hey Gary! Could you do a video on the setting for adjusting space between folders or docs? Please!
Thanks for posting this. You are my go to person for Mac:)
It's a great channel! I always learn something new. Thanks!!
Very good video! Another way to move windows, that I only learned about today, is that you can hover over any edge and then drag in the same direction as that edge to drag the window, e.g. if you hover over the right side of the window and then drag up or down it will move the window. Very handy now that title bars seem to be a thing of the past for many apps.
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I have been hating Mac OS (just recently switched form a windows) just because I did not know how to do many of the tricks I knew in windows like how to make a window in the left/right half of the page without entering the full screen mode which I really do not like.
I watched other videos but urs is the first one that had this much of info in it.
THANKS
I'm sharing this video with my friends now and subscribing to this amazing channel!
This is very good and useful. Is there ALSO a way to size and move the window so that it stays in that place and when closed and reopens it retains the location set? E.g. I want to keep Stage Manager visible on the left side, but have my Safari window use all the rest of the available space without blocking the menu and dock bars on top and bottom, and then have it always open in this position, rather than bounce back to a smaller size and having to re-size every time I open Safari?
You can, as the document window would remember. But a browser window isn't showing you a document like that. Instead, just don't ever close that window. Once you do, it is gone and when you create another window it is a NEW window. Using Stage Manager makes this easy as it should go away when you choose another App Set and then return when you choose the App Set with that window.
Thank you, Gary! 👍🏻
wow, that is just epic, finally I know how to use that
Really useful and precise. Thank you
You should cut the "move window to left/right side of screen" into a 2 minute quick review. Would get tons of views
Thank you, so many useful tips!!
Thanks Gary , these little tips help!!
Really interesting and helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Great tips! Maybe one on how to speed up/upgrade pre 2013 iMacs 👍
i just wanted to know how to quickly put 2 windows side by side side in windows PC dragging each app on opposite sides.
In macOS Sonoma you can use Split View (3 actions: move to green button, click left, click to choose the second window). In macOS Sequoia you'll be able to do that still, plus drag to left, drag to right like in Windows.
Hi Gary, Great video as always. When i open a finder window, it is very small for my needs. Can i permanently make it to open in a specific size? Thank you in advance!
Thank you so much!
Been loving all your videos, but the speaking speed of this one is perfect, compared to your recent videos, witch go so fast there's no time to let what your doing sink in properly. Do you have a book with all these great tips available? I am coming from Linux & Windows and find your Mac information priceless. Thank you for what you do...
My About page has a FAQ about that. macmost.com/about
You know you could control the speed of the video right? There’s speed controls in UA-cam so you could make the video go faster or slower according to your preference.
Can i move the window to the left using a specific hotkey? For example CMD+left_key?
How come you can’t do it on a system preference window for example date and time?
Hi Gary, in Outlook for instance, when I want to save attachments, the window that opens for selecting the target folder for saving is typically too small, is there a way to permanently specify a bigger size for these windows that would now be the default for these saving operations? Thank you. Beck
Great, but how do you have an application open at a reduced fixed size by default. iMac opens apps in full-screen. It is frustrating. It does not remember the last size (custom) once it was closed.
You verified that resizing windows should work just like on a PC. However, it sure isn't working on my MacBook Air with the most recent OS. I have System Preferences 'window' and a UA-cam 'window' (yours) on the screen, but the diagonal simply does not work on System Preferences, only the up vertical and horizontal. Yet the UA-cam window works all three ways no problem. So, I can't adjust both to each take up half the screen.
That's because System Preferences has a fixed horizontal size. It is different than most other apps in that respect.
I got additional monitor for my Mac. Is there keyboard shortcut to move the windows from one screen to other. (In PC it’s windows + shift + right or left arrow)
Hi! I'm on Big Sur (M1 Mac mini 11.1). I want to change the DEFAULT finder window size. I tried everything online but it still doesn't work! Help?! (I've tried CMD drag the window, the "relaunch", option drag and "relaunch"). Am I missing something?
Is there a way to revert an app/window back to its original size? lets say I double-click to go full size then I "tile window to left" or whatever, then I want to re-size it back to its original size the first time I open the app.
Technically an app can have a function to do that, but I don't know of any that do.
I'd like to do that, but I cannot seem to open 2 windows for apps at same time. If I have Chrome active and i click Notes, Chrome shows as a big icon at the left hand side and Notes becomes active. If I then click the icon for Chrome again, Notes goes into the left hand side.
You have turned on Stage Manager. Turn that off in Control Center if you don't want to use Stage Manager.
@@macmost Thank you so much! That did the trick
I’m missing the bottom portion of the window, Photomatix Pro 6 to be exact. What is the fix?
Thank You 🙏
You'll need to contact the developer for support.
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Thank You so much for the reference.
Is there a way to send the window to the back layer?
So it would be the window behind all other windows? I don't know of a way to do that. You can always just minimize, or better: hide, it.
My windows won't drag or resize
What if the top of the window iss off screen
Hi Gary! Love your videos!
I however have a problem. And only you would know how to fix that.
I have an iMac 27 inch OSX v10.10.5.
I have a screen that does not fit fully to my screen. There is a 1/8" blank area on the top of my screen and would like to stretch my screen window to fit? Is there a way to do it? Please advise!
Thank you!
RB.
Thanks Evgen! Much appreciated!
If you have a secondary monitor, and a window is fully expanded in that monitor, I find I cannot drag a new window from my laptop onto my secondary monitor until I minimise the expanded window. Is there a way around this? Im always presenting and its a pain always having to minimise the window so I can drag things over into the screen im sharing.
My guess is that you are not expanding the window in the first place, but perhaps switching it to Full Screen Mode, which is different. Don't take it into Full Screen Mode (clicking the green button) but simply resize the window to the edges of the screen (Option+double click a corner of the window for a quick way to do that).
@@macmost Good input, thank you.
When I drag a window onto external monitor it opens overlapping each edge of the screen . By moving the window over I can grab the edge and drag it in a bit and then centre the window to make it fit. Is there anyway to fix this setting? The next time I open the window on the external monitor it reverts back to being over width again.
Window form which app?
Google search window@@macmost
I love you Gary
Hi Gary, Can you please help me with regards to making some changes to my default video player when using Mac Catalina. I have followed a few instruction videos in UA-cam and I have tried this but it isn't working at all. If you can please get back to me I will then explain to you what is actually happening. Thanks Gary much appreciated. Regards John E
What changes are you trying to make? Try asking, in detail, at macmost.com/forum
One thing you didnt mention is what to do about the top edge of the display when there is an island (the camera). Example is on a macbook air. The island at the top middle prevents the window from being "dragged or expanded" beyond the lower edge of the island, not the actual display... I know I can make the window "full screen" and that will get around the island. Times i want a window to be as large as i can make it, but not full screen mode. How do i expand a window "behind' the island? And i have one other question...this is the MOST frustrating issue OF ALL for me in using an Apple computer: Finding the source of the audio that I hear playing. Often, I will have multiple tabs open on a browser window...and...often I will have multiple browser windows open. Lets assume I have 5 different Browser windows open and each has 30 tabs. The tabs are so small, they cant be read. I watch a video and hear the sound from one of the browser windows, from one of the tabs. And, i watch another video Play...etc. BUT NOW, my earbuds have launched one of the previous videos, its playing, i can hear it...BUT I CAN NOT FIND WHERE THAT VIDEO IS?? I CANT FIND THE VIDEO TO STOP IT FROM PLAYING! I now have to go to each window, open EACH tab, to see if it is THAT window and THAT tab where the video is playing...!? There MUST be a better way?? HELP!! SERIOUSLY! I CANT BE THE ONLY ONE HAVING THIS ISSUE...and I hope there is a simple solution you might know of how to reverse engineer the audio Im hearing...
I can't expand the window behind the notch. It helps to think of that space as for the Menu Bar only, or to think of it not as a notch but as extra space to the left and right of the camera (which is what it really is -- earlier MacBooks simply have a camera notch that goes all the way across the screen, right?) In Safari you should see the audio icon in the tabs that have audio.
I get very busy n move fast…multiple windows to organize my thoughts on that window w multiple tabs on each window means…on a MacBook Air, 13” display, the tabs get busy and smaller smaller until I can’t even see if a tab has the little speaker, so going window my window looking for a tab with a tiny little speaker is impractical. Just having to go thru the windows manually searchin for a tab just seem silly, no? There have been time I had to close EVERY TAB, on every window to end the video from playing. There must be a faster more efficient n effective way to find video playing?
@@BenjaminWasHere I guess so? Maybe get in the habit of closing tabs or reusing them instead of keep adding new ones?
Re the island, there is an app that I came across a month ago that allows you to spread open windows by dragging the edge of the window up to the edge of the display, “behind” the island…as if the island was not there…and now I can’t find that app…?
Window management is the worst feature in the Mac. The default window size in Finder is always ~25% which is ridiculous. Having to manually resize each and every window is beyond annoying.
See ua-cam.com/video/nKXCjD4HdpY/v-deo.html
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This does NOT work.
What, exactly, does not work?
The window management in macOS is complete garbage.The system doesn't even remember the custom window size or position for certain apps, which is a problem specifically for macOS and doesn't occur on MS Windows or in any desktop environment for GNU/Linux. Pathetic, Apple.
Window size and position are always remembered. I suppose a third-party app may have a bug. Or, you could be referring to the Finder, which remembers but people often misunderstand how it works. See ua-cam.com/video/nKXCjD4HdpY/v-deo.html
@@macmost I have several apps that doesn't remember the custom window size or position. Even some default apps by Apple such as Keynotes, Pages and Numbers doesn't even remember it. I've always had this problem with different apps in completely different versions of macOS/OS X. I never had this problem in MS windows or GNU/Linux though. Only in macOS.
@@GoolagThemTube It wouldn't be the "app" that remembers anything. It is the document. So if you reopen the same document it should open with a window that size in that position. Open another document, or create a new one, and it wouldn't be in that size or position.
@@macmost Document? No, it obviously has to do with the window management in macOS and it's either a problem with the apps themselves or macOS, because I'm not just talking about Word processors and stuff like that. It happens with all kind of apps. Web browsers, Music players etc etc. And like i said, it's only a problem in macOS and no other OS.
@@macmost It's a very common problem among Mac users. I've looked it up and most people seem to have experienced it.
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