Apple’s macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position — here’s how

Oct 20, 2024 09:00 PM - 5 months ago 189624

For galore a year, Windows users person been dragging their programme windows complete to the borders of the surface to snap them into position, splitting the surface up evenly into halves aliases quarters. Now, pinch the rollout of macOS Sequoia, Mac users tin do the same. You tin get a Spotify playlist up alongside your email inbox, for example, aliases a study you’re penning up alongside the online articles you’re reporting on. It intends little switching betwixt windows and much accusation connected the screen.

Once you’ve sewage macOS Sequoia installed connected your Mac, you tin return advantage of what Apple calls model tiling. There are respective methods you tin use.

Use the greenish button

Move the cursor up to the greenish zoom fastener to the near of immoderate unfastened window.
A prime of tiling options will popular up: you tin maximize the window, threat it to the broadside of a screen, aliases spot it successful 1 4th of the screen.
Make your choice, and the different unfastened windows will threat into spot to lucifer (filling retired the different quarters of the screen, for example).

Four different windows tiled connected a Mac screen.

Get your apps into position pinch model tiling.

Screenshot: Apple

Click and drag

Alternatively, you tin click and resistance an unfastened model into position to tile it.

Move the model to 1 separator to capable half the screen, up to the apical to capable the full screen, and up aliases down to a show area to capable a 4th of the screen.
When you usage this method, only the selected model is affected, truthful the others don’t alteration to fit. Hold down the Option cardinal while dragging to spot outlines of the surface zones you tin driblet windows into.

Use the Window menu

The 3rd method for model tiling is via the Window drop-down paper successful immoderate app you’re using.

Two menus showing the process of creating model tiles connected a Mac.

You tin besides create tiles via your app’s Window drop-down menu.

Screenshot: Apple

Choose Move & Resize.
Select immoderate of the Halves options to threat a model to half of the show size.
Choose immoderate of the Quarters options to threat a model into a 4th of the display.
Pick an Arrange action to threat the existent model into position and person the different windows rearranged accordingly (as pinch the greenish fastener method).
Click Return to erstwhile size to put the model backmost wherever it was.

Use keyboard shortcuts

If you want to support your fingers connected the keyboard, keyboard shortcuts are supported arsenic well. (Note: unfortunately, location aren’t immoderate circumstantial keyboard shortcuts for moving windows into the 4th sections of the screen.)

Here’s the database for controlling individual windows:

Fn + Control + F – capable the full desktop pinch the window
Fn + Control+C – halfway the model connected the desktop
Fn + Control + near arrow / correct arrow – move the model to the near / correct half of the desktop
Fn + Control + apical arrow / down arrow – move the model to the apical / bottommost half of the desktop
Fn + Control + R – move the model backmost to its erstwhile position and size

There are besides shortcuts for moving the progressive model and arranging different windows to match:

Fn + Control + Shift + near arrow / correct arrow – move the progressive model to the near / correct half and the 2nd model to the different half
Fn + Control + Shift + up arrow / down arrow – move the progressive model to the apical / bottommost half and the 2nd model to the different half
Fn + Control + Option + Shift + near arrow / correct arrow – move the progressive model to the near / correct half and the 2nd and 3rd windows to quarters connected the different side
Fn + Control + Option + Shift + up arrow / down arrow – move the progressive model to the apical / bottommost half and the 2nd and 3rd windows to quarters connected the different half

Customize your tiles

The Desktop & Dock settings paper connected a Mac

macOS gives you a fewer ways to customize your tiling settings.

Screenshot: Apple

You tin customize a fewer aspects of model tiling utilizing System Settings connected the Apple menu. Choose Desktop & Dock to find them. You tin move drag-to-tile and the Option cardinal shortcut connected aliases disconnected and take whether tiled windows person margins betwixt them.

Third-party model tiling tools

Several third-party devices person antecedently filled the characteristic spread erstwhile it comes to model tiling, and mostly speaking, they springiness you much options and much power than macOS Sequoia does, astatine slightest for now — they’re not completely Sherlocked yet.

I tin only speak firsthand astir 2 that I’ve personally used. One is Magnet, which will group you backmost $9.99 but is very overmuch worthy it, particularly if you usage a larger display. You tin disagreement the surface up by thirds and sixths arsenic good arsenic halves and quarters and group up trigger areas for dragging and civilization keyboard shortcuts.

The different is Rectangle; the basal type is free, but if you salary $9.99 for the Pro version, you tin customize threat areas and keyboard shortcuts, group up circumstantial layouts for circumstantial apps, and pin definite programme windows into position. It’s packed pinch each characteristic you could perchance want, though I deliberation Magnet is simply a small much intuitive to use.