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How to Disable Automatic Window Resizing in MacOS

  • October 27, 2025
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ProTruckDriver
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by: OSXDaily

 

MacOS has evolved with some powerful window resizing features, including automatic window resizing capabilities that were introduced in newer versions of MacOS system software. These automatic window resizing functions will activate when dragging windows around on the Mac screen, and will either attempt to tile windows, resize windows, or make windows fill the screen, depending on where or how you are dragging a window to.

Like just about every feature in MacOS, some Mac users absolutely love these capabilities, while others are less unenthusiastic or even annoyed by the automatic window resizing. Usually the Mac users who do not like the automatic window resizing features find them accidentally activating and frustrating, and thus they might wish to disable the capabilities.

If you’d like to turn off the automatic window resizing features in MacOS, read along. These window resizing features are in MacOS Tahoe and MacOS Sequoia onward, so earlier versions of MacOS will not apply here.

 

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Ssherjj
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  • October 28, 2025

@ProTruckDriver NOW you bring this article up. I was in panic mode after bringing my iMac out of sleep. Because the screen was enlarged with bigger fonts off the screen and so I fiddled with it and screen went back to normal. So I rebooted it just to make sure. I personally don't like auto-resizing on my Sequoia period!🧐 Thank you 😊 


russell.harris
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Another ‘marmite’ feature as I call them. Love it or hate it!


MajorHavoc
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  • October 29, 2025

I always felt this feature should be a button or menu item that's pressed to make it happen, and not automatically.