3 Different Ways To Maximize a Window On a Mac

Рет қаралды 108,374

Күн бұрын

macmost.com/e-2219 If you want to maximize the size of a window on your Mac, using the obvious controls may not get you what you want. Full Screen mode removes the window from the current desktop and takes it away from other windows. Zooming doesn't always expand the window to fill the screen. Learn how to really expand a window to its maximum size.
FOLLOW MACMOST FOR NEW TUTORIALS EVERY DAY
▶︎ KZfaq - macmost.com/j-youtube (And hit the 🔔)
▶︎ Weekly Email Newsletter - macmost.com/newsletter ✉️
SUPPORT MACMOST AT PATREON
▶︎ macmost.com/patreon ❤️
#macmost #maximize #zoom

Пікірлер: 180

@Terence_x 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that, it's been bugging me for ages that I couldn't that as easily as I can in Windows!

@DavidRousseau75 2 жыл бұрын

Windows user here recently moving to MacOS. This was killing me. Thanks a lot!

@calicops951 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gary, I am a huge fan! I appreciate your publications.

@nicholaspaul2458 4 жыл бұрын

Gary. Your tips are fantastic. New to Mac and these features seem to be best kept secrets. Thanks so much for reaching me.

@pierrejacoub8778 4 жыл бұрын

I have the Moom app on my mac. Really helps a lot with window management. I have programmed shortcut keys for specific window positioning to meet different workflows. Moom also assists with the full-screen vs large window options too. Gary, really appreciate your videos. Always useful information!

@QUAVZ866 2 жыл бұрын

What's it called

@suhailshaikh5488 Жыл бұрын

This was awesome! It was always a trouble for me to drag all corners all the time. Thanks for helping!

@rishav2ky 3 жыл бұрын

One of most important feature you explained in this video. Thanks a lot.

@AlohaAngelique 2 жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure learning from you. Thank you for doing these videos!

@JasonMcFadden 2 жыл бұрын

Side note: from this video I learned to think of the "Zoom" command as "Fit-to-content." Nice. Thanks again. :)

@alihancaglar74 4 жыл бұрын

This is gold. Thanks 🙏🏻

@skkrawczyk 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I always learn something useful watching your videos!

@cyndifeeney1049 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks as always for your brilliance. Love the last tip.

@kmax42 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm new to mac and needed this!

@BucNasty32 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Gary! Love it Helped me so much.

@ColdShiTi 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gary! Bestest tips for a brand new Mac user here :D

@Anatolxd 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making my Mac experience less frustrating ; )

@drpentecost 4 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. Thanks.

@PatrickBijvoet 3 жыл бұрын

Whow, I did not know that. Thats handy! Thank you Gary!

@javantedavis1999 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! Love you for this

@alejandrokakias3235 Жыл бұрын

great video, finally! thank you so much!

@AlfredoOrozcoVideos Жыл бұрын

Great video, thankyou.

@ajaynimawat961 2 жыл бұрын

Very useful video. Thanks for sharing!!

@bencash777 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@dreamdemolitionfactory1304 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you this was very helpful

@vishalmarwah4389 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this tip! It was driving me nuts that on maximising the app would open up in a new space. It was a problem during screenshare in zoom meetings. This fixes it.

@lisaguy2914 2 жыл бұрын

thanks so much - this has really made my iMac life so much easier

@shalinikansal4780 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@lauradjamba5111 Жыл бұрын

Really helpful

@nathanyao3525 Ай бұрын

Thank you a lot.

@Goomer 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@lachicaSVT 2 жыл бұрын

You are a Rockstar! thank you

@rosaameliaocana5244 12 күн бұрын

Excellent video. Thank you very much.

@ARMALON87 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, didn't know that!

@cocafanta7940 2 жыл бұрын

You are a Lifesaver! Thank you!😇

@Central_E_Free_Church 4 жыл бұрын

I sure am glad I found you and your You-Tube's Gary. You sure are smart!👍👏👏

@SPR8364-0 4 жыл бұрын

That tip was really golden. I have been missing that feature since OS X was introduced. As I recall, there was a button on the titlebar that would do the same thing in Mac SO 9.

@harrykatsaros 3 жыл бұрын

It was in the first few version of OS X as well. Disappeared around the Snow Leopard / Lion releases from memory but it might have been a little earlier and I’m misremembering.

@groovr22 4 жыл бұрын

That's AWESOME (and MUCH appreciated)...!!! I've only had my iMac for less than 2 weeks, but that green expand button was bugging me to no end because it covered the menu bar at top, and I hated that. This is the PERFECT solution. Thank you SO much for this. I'm so glad I subscribed..! I look forward to learning more from you.

@mortistran6766 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks alot

@OhMyRod 2 жыл бұрын

First time Mac user here, saying this video is helpful would be an understatement. Thanks for this!

@ironqqq 2 жыл бұрын

You are a savior! I thought mac's are supposed to be easier. So many hidden shortcuts instead clearly marked buttons and contextual menus.

@Bluebocat 2 жыл бұрын

This is the final frontier of practical Mac techniques.. . thank you for sharing wizard

@jonfklein 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I have been wondering how to do this for almost a decade.

@amirafarahamira3985 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@greenbristol 3 жыл бұрын

Gary, Love the channel. Been using Macs since 1990 with System 6 and thought I knew it all... The option double click does not work for me to resize the window either in Finder or Pages... Do I have to set a preference for this? I'm using OS 11.1 on an M1 MacBook Pro. *** Correction; it's working now - but only intermittently. I think this may be a bug in Big Sur.

@briangurnett Жыл бұрын

You are a god among men. Thank you for helping me figure out the thing that bothered me most about using the Macs I have been using forever.

@Taalmagic 2 жыл бұрын

What kind of sorcery is this???? 😁😁😁 great tip. Thanks

@vladislav148 3 жыл бұрын

Does anyone have an idea why Apple hate so much full screen default mode (like in Windows)? Maybe nowadays with Retina displays it make sense - a lot of content fits in smallers screens - but as far as I know it goes from rather distants times with average displays

@fouzia2748 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks alot sir! 🇮🇳

@user__214 2 жыл бұрын

My man, you have changed my life!

@bobf.morinsr.6231 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. My eye site is poor Is there a way to increase the size of text in any program,like photoshop or fcpx

@curlym1341 Жыл бұрын

Is there anyway to full screen an app as a page or space on windows 11 like mac OS? I really like the way it move between spaces, pages or desktop, so smooth

@kamalajouri1488 Жыл бұрын

Well explained Thanks! However, is it possible to minimise a full screen page? because every time I turn to a full screen, the minimise mark (the yellow one) become locked and turn to a grey colour

@FaadumoArdo 3 жыл бұрын

Every time when I log on my Imac pc, the window becames small size I don't know how to to make big screen and see that way when I log in my pc?

@IWario1 Жыл бұрын

I wish I could give you an award for this. thank you so much lol

@gjsvid Жыл бұрын

Resize right fixed it for me.

@Mavellyrical 2 жыл бұрын

I can't see those three button, even dragging arrows are not available for davenchi resolve, please help me. I'm using M1 MacAir

@macmost 2 жыл бұрын

Just for Resolve? Maybe that app is different (I don't use it). Or maybe you are in full screen mode with that app?

@Giovani90 3 ай бұрын

Hi, Gary thank you for the video. Is there a way to achieve the 3rd option with just using the keyboard? Instead of going to the corner to double click?

@macmost 3 ай бұрын

No. But if the Window, Zoom function works to do it in the app you are using, then you can always assign a keyboard shortcut to "Zoom."

@vijaybhavsar2512 3 жыл бұрын

You're the best :)

@margaretrose2167 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I like to have full screen but hate that the 3 dots disappear. This way there are both options.

@russelmason8841 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Gary, great video, I hope I’m asking the question correctly. What if i want to set my windows to always open to fill the screen like windows (not full screen mode), is it possible?

@ana-xc9kg 3 жыл бұрын

Have you figured it out yet? If so please lmk!

@golecruzamanda9288 3 жыл бұрын

i accidentally set it on my mac but only on the powerpoint window and now it won’t go back to the default way of opening windows. pls send help

@anthrax2844 3 жыл бұрын

@@golecruzamanda9288 same but with minecraft launcher ;(

@golecruzamanda9288 3 жыл бұрын

@@anthrax2844 i hope we could figure it out, it's really annoying tbh. every time i open ms powerpoint it always fills the entire screen. i tried different ways to fix it, but unfortunately, nothing works.

@anthrax2844 3 жыл бұрын

@@golecruzamanda9288 same

@awreckingball 3 жыл бұрын

Video starts at 6:09.

@stevenbutton 2 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to share a screen from my laptop/desktop to an apple TV box (with display of course!) that is in a different physical location and network? Use case is to display company data to employees in a remote workshop location. Thank you!

@macmost 2 жыл бұрын

Possible with a third-party app. You'd have to have an app running on the Apple TV and probably another app on your Mac and then technically it is possible. Not sure if such an app exists, but a web search for "remote screen display app for Apple TV" seems to show some things.

@stevenbutton 2 жыл бұрын

@@macmost thank you!

@Al_Anderson Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! Still can't believe how apple overcomplicates simple things.

@GrowYourHomesteadWithAngie 2 жыл бұрын

I have a hard time reading or writing my blog on the screen. i want the words large. what do i do? I dont' need to zoom a screen. I want words at like 200%. help!

@macmost 2 жыл бұрын

What are you using to write? Which app, or are you writing directly in a CMS? If so, perhaps the CMS has some settings for this. If not, then using View, Make Text Bigger (hold Option to see that) is the way to go. Or, write your post in Pages or something and then copy and paste.

@BrooklynAvenue Жыл бұрын

This works. Zoom gives you the entire page or program. Mac SUCKS that you have to learn this and engage it, everything should simply appear 'zoomed' to begin with.

@zip7806 2 жыл бұрын

What to do when a window gets to big and you can't grab the corners or sides because its off screen?

@horizoneyeproject 3 жыл бұрын

I enlarged my window but can minimize it. its not showing at the top. any help?

@macmost 3 жыл бұрын

Minimize it? As in "into the Dock?" You don't see the Yellow button? Are you in Full Screen mode, maybe?

@botbot4366 4 жыл бұрын

Gary, sometimes I accidentally hit something (I don't know how or when I do it) and my screen goes full screen (especially in email), and everything but the email disappears. I don't have an Apple keyboard, but a Razer. I have no idea how to get out of that and have to end up sending the email to myself because there just does not seem to be any way to escape it. Help, please!

@macmost 4 жыл бұрын

Watch this video. You are probably going full screen. Just move your cursor to the top and click the green button that appears. Or use View, Exit Full Screen.

@zaibalo Ай бұрын

Zooming according to the app's needs instead of user's needs is Apple in a nutshell.

@macmost Ай бұрын

Zooming is zooming. If you want something different (like to fill the screen) then do that instead.

@TheRealRoscoe 2 жыл бұрын

Obviously a lot of people want this feature. Why doesn’t Apple just provide a single, simple button? I love my Mac,, but Microsoft Windows has superior window management. Named the whole OS for it! LOL. Thanks for the informative video. Happy to be like number 1,000!

@rhettshipley4593 Жыл бұрын

When I double click the menu bar it minimises my window down to the tool bar instead of enlarging it. Any ideas please

@macmost Жыл бұрын

System Settings, Desktop & Dock, "Double-click a window's title bar to." Change that to what you want.

@rhettshipley4593 Жыл бұрын

@@macmost Brilliant again. Thx Gary.

@berrywin 5 ай бұрын

There should be a keyboard shortcut to maximize a window like i.e. F11!

@triangle4studios 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Option double click a corner. Who'd-a-Thunk it?

@ANormalName. 2 жыл бұрын

U know how to do this on safari

@End867 2 жыл бұрын

I've lost my 3 dot and can't getting them back but only on Lightroom

@dantepastro8465 Жыл бұрын

Mac "control + command + f" is not true full screen mode as with windows "f11" on Crome browser. What a shame.

@City_Cichlids 2 ай бұрын

How do I keep the windows maximized each time I open a new window?

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

Which app? In most cases each window represents a document so closing one and opening another means they have separate sizes.

@amazinggameplays2693 3 жыл бұрын

Now I will go back to safari again from chrome. This was the only issue I was facing in Safari.

@JeffBourke Жыл бұрын

why do they make it so dificult on mac?

@Jasonshepard2 3 жыл бұрын

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍

@luqSJU 11 ай бұрын

fn&f gives you full screen in one shot

@financetips Жыл бұрын

The most irrupting thing for Mac : (Opening a new window and it doesnt go above the current window when in full screen but take away the active content I was working on) I have 3 screens, and I am using my main screen that is active, when I open another program or new window, instead of going to another screen that is not used, it opens up in the active screen and moves my active window away. How can I get it to not do this!! help em please

@macmost Жыл бұрын

When you are using a window in Full Screen mode, the window is using an entire "Space" (AKA "Desktop"). Opening another window can't go on top of that space as it is a space for just one entire window. If you want to have two windows overlapping each other, just have a normal Desktop Space with regular windows on it. Full Screen is Full Screen.

@financetips Жыл бұрын

@@macmost thank you for the reply. Correct, understand the concept but not enjoying it:( and the worst is to minimise a window need to press that button twice, when expanded. Am I the only one finding it annoying? Also when opening a new APP, I have 3 screens, cant the MAcbook tell that I have 1 empty screen not being used, please display the new window on the blank instead of a screen I am already using.

@macmost Жыл бұрын

@@financetips Maybe try some different options to fund the one that works best for you. For instance, expand the window to the largest size but don't use Full Screen mode. Maybe try Stage Manager. Don't minimize, but hide the app instead. There are lots of ways to do it if using Spaces isn't fulfilling your needs.

@raviboyapati7170 3 ай бұрын

Why this simple thing has to be so difficult on mac. I researched so much that my hand started paining.

@macmost 3 ай бұрын

Which method? Each one is simple once you know which one you want.

@kingdine5525 2 жыл бұрын

So basically MacOS is chaos. In windows, you just have to press maximize button. Or want a full screen just press f11 on any app.

@din3lka 2 жыл бұрын

Lmao true

@MathGeekQ 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to go full screen on a video, but stay in the same window/desktop? I want to go fullscreen videos WITHOUT creating a new damn screen/desktop window. It messes up my workflow.

@macmost 2 жыл бұрын

Just make the window as large as you can.

@MathGeekQ 2 жыл бұрын

@@macmost That still leaves all the comments and everything else on the screen (on youtube). And on other sites like Udemy, all the content around the video remains there. And of course, using the video player's fullscreen just creates a new window, which is what I'm trying to avoid.

@macmost 2 жыл бұрын

@@MathGeekQ So then use the regular full screen option. Just remember to exit out of it when you are done watching.

@gjsvid Жыл бұрын

This kind of simple action should have a default keyboard shortcut. I don't use the full screen maximize. So these kinds of defaults feel very useless to me. To be sure: there is no way of doing this without using the pointer/ by keyboard?

@macmost Жыл бұрын

The closest you can get is to assign your own custom shortcut to "Zoom" and use that. Is most cases, the window will go edge-to-edge. In cases where it doesn't, the window will at least expand to the size needed to display all content.

@bnoakes4899 2 жыл бұрын

I've tried the three quick fixes and My MAC won't go full screen

@macmost 2 жыл бұрын

Which app are you trying to make Full Screen?

@yusufmalikul 2 жыл бұрын

answer: Option key + Double click the corner of the window.

@Mark_Media 3 жыл бұрын

Uhm, Windows has kinda been maximizing windows with the maximize box for years( one simple click). Why hasn't MAc done this? One reason I will not buy a mac. too bad ;(

@anilkamthe3084 2 жыл бұрын

BUT WHEN REOPEN THAT WINDOW IT OPENS IN SMALL SIZE AGAIN

@macmost 2 жыл бұрын

Depends on the app. The app always can override things.

@ikhwanhaziq7630 2 жыл бұрын

windows is easier, hold the window button and press the up button. shortcut key keyboard is what i need

@rickyraton12 2 жыл бұрын

Still the first choice is much easier and the others don't save much time.. it should be an option in settings for full screen as a default.. this is one of the few things IOS sucks....

@Seychelllian Жыл бұрын

It would be nice to be able to maximise the window without using two hands. Its really impractical to have to do some workaround for something thats so common.

@macmost Жыл бұрын

For most windows, double-click an unused spot in the title bar. But for all windows, double-click one corner and then the opposite corner if you really don't want to hold down the option key at the same time.

@Seychelllian Жыл бұрын

@@macmost Do we know why Apple doesn’t want us to maximise window size. I should think this is the main resize function that people want to execute. It’s so odd to me that there isn’t a dedicated button for that.

@macmost Жыл бұрын

@@Seychelllian It sounds like you want Zoom (double-click the title bar, or use Window, Zoom). This brings the window to the largest size that makes sense. For many apps (most?) it will fill the screen. But if an app has a width or height limit, or the content in the window doesn't need more space, it will stop short of that.

@Seychelllian Жыл бұрын

@@macmost Honestly usually the issue for me is with Finder and zooming doesn’t usually make it fill the screen. Also osx doesn’t remember your preference so I can maximise one finder window and when I open another one it will be floating again and I have to maximise it again. I’m going to play around with some window management apps to see if there is an easier solution.

@macmost Жыл бұрын

@@Seychelllian Right. Finder windows are a good example of when it goes to the maximum size needed, instead of full size. So if you really want it larger, just use any of the methods to make it larger. You have the option to make it larger, so just do it. As for "remembering" sizes, see: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLGIds11ma7IoI0.html

@gorklud 4 жыл бұрын

You forgot to say how we “undo “ these actions....especially your number 3

@macmost 4 жыл бұрын

There is no undo for the third one. You just drag the corners or sides of the windows back to where you want them next.

@kelito_lopez 2 жыл бұрын

7 minutes video to say: just double click on any corner while pressing option button and you're done 🙂

@neilmickleburgh9621 2 жыл бұрын

just double click on any clear part of the toolbar.

@xenvector 16 күн бұрын

or just download rectangle

@Jinsunguito 11 ай бұрын

why not make like windows where you just have to hit windows + arrows up down left right? there should be Cmd+arrows...

@ottothetinybeast5295 2 жыл бұрын

fuckin hell with kde just double click in any damn window and you get the job done , or just push the window on the top corner that's it I hate Mac , but I have it ! :(