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While you’re Option-hovering, you also get a zoom button that causes a window to fill up the screen (minus the space occupied by the Dock and menu bar) without going full-screen.

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Hover your pointer over the green button while pressing the Option key for a few seconds to see a different set of commands that let you move windows to the left or right instead of tiling them-meaning the windows are not taken full-screen but simply shifted to one half of the screen or the other. Strangely, Apple’s help article about Split View makes no mention of a hidden feature in Catalina that gives you additional window-positioning options that don’t invoke full-screen mode. That also happens if you tile one window but no additional windows are available to fill the remaining space. That menu also provides an option to make a single window full-screen.

Choose one of those options, and macOS prompts you to select one of the remaining windows to fill the rest of the screen. Hover the pointer over a full-screen button and a menu appears with options to tile the window to the left or the right of the display. In 10.15 Catalina, Apple simplified the interface. Release the button and then click a window on the other side of the screen to add it to Split View. As you hold the button, the window shrinks, and you can drag it to the left or right side of the screen. Click a window’s green full-screen button at the upper left. Starting with macOS 10.11 El Capitan, Apple gave us Split View. More on Magnet and Moom in a bit-let’s look at what macOS can do for you first. Magnet and Moom provide a capability I have envied in Microsoft Windows and Google’s ChromeOS: “window snapping.” When you drag windows to the edges of the screen, window snapping causes them to snap into particular positions and shapes.

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You can buy Moom for $10 directly from its developer, Many Tricks, or through the Mac App Store. I weaned myself off Magnet and went all-in with Moom because of its flexibility. Last I checked, the $1.99 app sat atop the Mac App Store’s productivity category.Īnother, Moom, lets you customize your window behavior. It was my favorite app of this kind for a long time. One window-positioning utility, Magnet, is a zero-configuration tool that anticipates what presets users want. There are many such apps out there, and even general-purpose utilities like Keyboard Maestro can help you move windows around. Third-party utilities give you even more window control. You’re probably aware of Split View, which puts two windows side-by-side in full-screen mode, and Apple has built in additional capabilities. You can automate such drudgery to a large degree.

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