Wow. I’m a Mac OS power user of 25 years and I still learned things in this video. I’ve resorted to other apps to do a less good job than what Gary shows here as built into the OS. And I use windows a mindboggling number of times in the day. Gary thank you for the time and research and curiosity you have to make these videos. This one got me good!

I have been using Macs since 1987 and did not know most of this. Thanks!

This video is a saver. A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary!👏🏻❤️

Very helpful. For those a bit more experienced, you can write an Applescript to put the window in the same place every time as well. I have to admit I don't use the hide function as much as I probably ought to. I still probably have the old mind set of memory usage. Good video.

Love videos like this that remind me of all the things I should be doing to make my user experience easier.

Learned new stuff. Even with being a Mac user since the beginning. The Shift, Option and Shift+Option modifier keys have always have fun and useful tricks.

Excellent video! As others have commented, even after 25+ years as a Mac user, I'm learning new 'wow' things! My top pick from this video is the benefit of switching off 'Close windows when quitting an application.' Keep them coming!

i've been looking for the zoom command for so long. Thank you sooooo much !!!

That was very educational. Thanks!

Thanks very much, Gary, for this immensely informative video! Learned a few more window sizing tips today 👍

Another banger hit! Thanks, Gary!

Excellent tutorial. Very useful information. Many thanks!

VERY useful, thanks

Thanks, Gary. Brilliant as usual.

Great video, learned a few tips today.

Another great tip Gary!

Thank You Gary...never knew most of these tricks with windows...I always use F3 Mission Control, now I have other options.

Thanks for putting this together. I have used Macs since 2009 and didn't know about these features.

WoW, can't believe I did not know this :-) Great video Gary, you have saved me so much money over the years by using what is already built into my devices.

You are always teaching me new tricks for my Mac! Always appreciate you sharing.

Great video as usual--thanks

My mac is a so much more user friendly machine with a super sophisticated system since I found your channel. Thank you Gary.

Thank. you so much for the video!

This was very helpful I was a bit disappointed with my Mac (first time user) unable to arrange windows as I wanted. Thanks Gary! 👍🏻

I’ve been using Macs for 25 years but never knew most of these tips. Thank you Gary.

excellent work 🎉

very informative, thanks

This is very useful. I wish I had known this a long time ago.

Thanks bunches

Wow. Thx.

Very helpful Gary. There are some great tips here. As a longtime windows user, I think Mac could learn from Windows snap which is much simpler. I use Rectangle on my Mac but it’s good to know more about arranging windows without third party tools.

All these days, I was thinking MacOS window management is inferior to Windows/Linux. This video proved me wrong!! Great one man!!

OMG so many moves and clicks and keys to just make windows fill parts of screen! This information is very useful, but the approach Apple chose is no less painful...

I thought I knew all about moving windows - until I saw this. Thanks.

Holly smokes, I’m just starting with mac and it feels so overwhelming right now :D But thank you for these vids they help a lot.

Rectangle is the answer ;)

Mac is simple, they said, my grandma can use it... great videos, as always, so many tiny different options, whatever happened to the KISS principle, Apple?

13:14 is a really nice tip!!

Color me impressed. I consider myself to be smarter than the average cat when it comes to dealing w the finer details of Macs, but damn if there weren't a few new things I learned from this video. And damn if that DeskTop & Dock setting you mentioned didn't just solve the exact issue I've been having. Rock on with your bad self internet stranger..rock on.

Great tutorial! Thanks for that. But how can you resize the system settings window?

The only window related Mac thing I have ever wanted to know, was how to make Finder windows not open on top of each other. Seems like whenever I have a window open, and I want to drag an item in it to another folder in a new window, the new window always opens right on top of the old one. My Mac always knows exactly where I don't want a new window to open, and opens the new window there. Every time.

So you can determine the action that double clicking on the title bar does by going to: Desktop & Dock >> scroll to double click on title bar to >> select either minimize, zoom, or do nothing. I like to minimize the window and not zoom. I believe the zoom option was selected as default. It messed me up until I figured it out. Hope that helps to clarify where you can enable this action.

What are your tips that mimic the Bartender app for MacOS (e.g., menu bar manager)?

The Mac is already a wonderful user experience, and then you come along and make it even better!

I really need this tips because my windows always changing to different sizes everytime I reopen them

Thank you, Gary. I appreciate the point about treating a new Finder window as a new document in Pages. On a related note, I wish opening a new desktop would offer the option to make that desktop function as a truly independent workspace, instead of having to be cautious to avoid inadvertently switching from one desktop to another.

Good stuff Gary. The solution I need, which is beyond the scope of your video, is to remember finder window positions for a finder window, and it's tabs. I never close them, but since some of the tabs are mounted volumes, if there is any network issues, and the volumes dismount, then the tabs revert to the default volume. I have to recreate the tabs manually each time, and this is something I have had to so about 6 times in the past month. Any solutions for this come to mind?

Hi Gary, loved your video. In which cases do you fullscreen a window?

Brilliant - must study several times …. Next point of confusion - rt click in dock; select Options; choose a display/window; Can you explore the options pls; if a window subsequent dragged to another display it seems uncertain what rules are then followed?

6:53 The problem with that is that the content may change every time you navigate into another folder (or a website) with a different amount of content, so you may need to 'zoom' multiple times. They should have ditched this feature in favor of a more convenient maximize window function.

Hi Gary, loved your video. Do you recommend fullscreening an app. I mostly use only one app at a time but most people don't use the fullscreen or i don't find it intuitive. But then it feels weird that apple tries to push the full screen by putting a green button on each window. What do you recommend? And in which cases do you fullscreen a window?

how about having Preview change its opening position? (i hate it on the left side)

Hi, Gary, great video! but somehow the windows snapping sensitivity isn't high enough on my macbook(sonoma14) that I'll always go over the edge of the other window or no close enough to trigger the snapping? any tweaks you would recommend to fix this?

Gary - have you heard of window snapping not working in Sonoma? First thing I noticed with updating to Sonoma is the window snapping wasn't working for click-and-drag, only resizing. I figured it was a bug and hoping to have it fixed in an update, but still the same in 14.1.1 . *SOME* applications seem to work some time, but as an example two Safari windows won't snap when using drag and drop. I don't remember a switch needed to turn it on/off. (Mac mini 2023 M2 running 14.1.1)

How to get all windows which are opened in secondary monitor to primery monitor or vis-versus when one monitor is on sleep mood??? Please make a video on this 🙏

For multi-display set up, does closing a window remember TO WHICH MONITOR to restore?

🆘 I need your help please, but first: Thanks a lot, I moved from Win to Mac 3 years ago, and this finder windows was making me crazy 😅. Please: 1️⃣) How to set the finder window open as a full size window directly? I don’t want to double click or resize it every time. 2️⃣) How to disable the new big camera and Microphone icon from the menu bar on the new macOS Sonoma? I stream a lot and since I upgraded to macOS Sonoma, I have many issues with the external camera, mic and video capture device. Every time I restart the mac, I must unplug the cables for all of them and plug it again. Especially the camera and the video capture device. I did some research and I understood that this new macOS Sonoma camera icon is used for Presenter mode and Overlay. and when I open the elgato Facecam or HD60 X app or The streaming app, I don’t get a signal from them and sometimes I get a message that this source is open in another application. I must unplug the cable and plug it again. I found that when I move the mouse crosshair to this green camera icon in the menu bar, it opens a small window and I can see the camera, this makes me so nervous. Can you tell how to disable this icon “Presenter mode” Please. Thanks.

I have a question about your advice to never shutdown your Mac. I have a MacBook Pro, which is my main computer. If I leave it plugged in and on I seem to recall that this will effect the battery. Do you have any advice about that case?

hi gary, for me it is not working dragging edges with option keys should i enable anything?

Thank you. I am trying to figure out how to keep my Chrome and my WhatsApp (just updated) apps where I put them. The new WhatsApp shifts annoyingly to the right when I open a chat, no matter what I do. I also use a 2nd Chrome tab for KZfaq which annoyingly shifts to the left from where I like it, every time I return it to its normal size from full screen. I couldn't see how to anchor a browser or an app like WA from your video. Is there a way? Thank you.

Just buy magnet. I did years ago and it handles windows snapping just like windows.

I don't think I've ever grabbed a side to resize a window, I've been using Macs since 1989 - SE 2/20 Finder and then Multi-finder, remember? but never ever done that, only the corners. I feel so silly. I had no idea about the double clicking option thing either!. Then you added the shift key, well my head was spinning. I feel like I've wasted my life. Why didn't I know these things. I don't know how you remember all this stuff, my head is full

Finder doesn’t remember the width of the name column, does it? Is there a way to have it adjust to the length of filenames?

Is there a way to adjust the column width so that a window always opens with the columns wider? I find I have to click/drag them wider but would love to edit the default width.

I just found, with multiple desktops, you can switch between them by using two fingers to scroll left and right on your Magic Mouse.

Finder Arrangement tips plz......

Is there a way to keep one window "floating" above the others even when you're not actively using that window?

Is there a command key to take two windows one to the Left and one to the right. Instead of having to do this manually

I just thought of a question. I might set up a space like yours with three windows on it and then I want to open something small like Calculator to do something and it starts Calculator in a new space and that’s really annoying. I want to calculated to start on top of the work I’m doing. Is there a way to make it work that way? I’m sure it’s user error.

Very new to the Mac world coming from a pc. Lately when I click to open a link or a new window it downloads instead of opening. Why is that? How do I stop it?

A bit of a long shot that anyone has an idea here, but I am having issues with my windows randomly losing focus. So for example, if I'm typing an email the OS will switch focus on another window and while I continue typing, the system isn't picking up my inputs and the words don't continue to show up on the email. So I have to click on the email window again to get it to allow me to finish typing. This happens intermittently but persistently. And it only happens when connected to a monitor/dock (never when using as a traditional laptop). I'm on an M1 MBP. Any ideas on what this is and how to fix it?

I sure wish TextEdit would remember document window size and position.

I can't use two windows simultaneously on the desktop how could I fix this?

Where is Systems Settings? I don't see that on my system. I have Monterey 12.7.1. I only see Systems Preferences and I don't have that sidebar thing that you are showing in the video at minute 13:13.

how you open multiple windows on mac simultaneously ??, I CAN ONLY OPEN ONE ON MINE !!

I've never found macOS window management to be exceptional. On top of that, using multiple desktops in macOS I've found inferior to pretty much every desktop environment in Linux. It's better than Windows, but I'll take KDE or GNOME over macOS window management / multiple desktops.

on a windows laptop, one can double tap on the window and keep where ever possible.

Also, if you have windows in a stage manager stage, and close them, I find they’ll often open up in their own respective stages, which I find annoying.

Well I do restart my Mac after I’m finished with Photoshop to kill all creative background processing. Otherwise you’re right no need to ever close it

And why you have no dock in your video

8:09 Why would they hide these essential features under a layer of function keys? That's not sensible to do. Or do the developers not want users to know about these features so that we won't use them? Or just they don't care? 🤔

I tried putting my Mac to sleep rather than shutting it down, and it didn't work because I have cats that take pleasure in awakening it. What can you do?

Great video, but 90% of the tricks are not what people really want to do, which is intelligently and quickly tile windows on a large screen. MacOS windows management is decidedly third rate and this video doesn't change that. While I'm at it, I will ask (for the 1000th time), why no HDMI volume control? This has been a standard feature in other operating systems for more than 20 years!

I apologize for coming to this channel with this issue - I'm 70 yrs old and trying to understand how my work email (Exchange) works with Contacts app in Mac OS Sonoma. I have ALL these contact lists and I don't understand how they appeared. All Contacts Exchange All Exchange Contacts Contacts Contacts Suggested Contacts Suggested Contacts Suggested Contacts iCloud All iCloud Directories Exchange Global Address