Just about any combination you want is possible with Magnet, without any of the delays or confusion of Apple's solution.

It also works with vertical splits, 3 way splits, or having 4 apps, each in a corner.

Getting into and out of the mode is clunky, unintuitive, and it breaks a few fundamental windowing concepts.ĭrag to the right or left edge to snap your window into a 50/50 tile. Notice that the Menu Bar disappears, and the apps become a pair in their own space. The gallery below shows how macOS handles creating a split screen normally. This brings you to the expose-like view that Windows uses, but also comes with the frustrations of using full screen mode in macOS, including hiding your menu bar and the individual windows not behaving normally. With the latest change to window management in macOS, you can long press on the green full screen button in the top left of a window, and choose which side to pin against. If that sentence sounded confusing, it's because the features themselves are confusing. Apple added full screen mode in macOS 10.7, split screen in 10.11, and a contextual shortcut menu in the full screen button in their latest release, macOS 10.15 Catalina. There are other ways to manage windows built into macOS, but I find them all frustrating to work with in comparison. When you expect windows to snap into place and they don't, it feels unintuitive. As someone who moves between macOS for personal use and Windows for work, I always miss this feature when I go back to my Mac.

Magnet for mac os