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Not sure what specifically you're talking about here, but if you wanna line up two windows side-by-side you can long click on the green "full screen" traffic li
by georgespencer 10y ago
Not sure what specifically you're talking about here, but if you wanna line up two windows side-by-side you can long click on the green "full screen" traffic light button in the top left of an app's window (e.g. Word), and choose which half of the screen you want it to maximise in. Then do the same for another running app in the other half and it'll split the screen between two apps at full size.
- issa 10y agoThis seems pretty cool. Looks like it gives you split DESKTOPS, which isn't quite the same. But I'll try it out. Thanks!
- coryfklein 10y agoOkay, I just long clicked (5 seconds) on the green button and all it did is maximize the window. Tried long click + drag, didn't work. What am I missing?
- valuearb 10y agoWorks for me, long click, it resizes to left half horizontally, then when I release it fills vertically. On the right side is a collection of my other windows, I tap one and it fills the right side.
- mikeash 10y agoAlas, it's not resizing the windows, but creating some sort of new virtual desktop and sticking them in it.
- valuearb 10y agoThis is true
- brazzledazzle 10y agoThat kind of turned me off buy maybe it's worth giving it another go.
- denzil_correa 10y agoHere's the relevant Apple Support article https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948
- jonknee 10y agoI was in the same boat and after some Googling I found that you need to have "Displays have separate Spaces" checked in the Mission Control preferences. For some reason it requires you to log-out and back in after activating it, but afterwards I can indeed use split view as described. I don't remember changing this setting, but it's always possible I did years ago. I have never been a big user of Spaces and somehow missed out knowing Split View was ever a thing, but it's actually pretty neat.
- runamok 10y agoTIL! Great feature. After you have your two side by side apps you can also drag the border in between to make one larger than the other.