While you can’t completely turn off window snapping, you can temporarily disable window snapping in Mac OS with a keystroke action when moving windows around on the screen. If you’re using window snapping on the Mac specifically to hold two windows side-by-side, you might appreciate the split view feature on Mac OS too, which is aimed at dual-panel usage. You can snap however many windows together that you can fit on screen, regardless of their size. It’s one of those features that’s best tried out yourself than explained, but the brief demonstration video below shows the MacOS window snapping feature in action: The window snapping ability in MacOS is a bit more full featured than what is offered in the Windows world, with a broader range of snap targets. You’ll “feel” the dragged window snap to place, repeat with additional windows as desired.With several windows open on the Mac display, grab one and drag it against a snap target.Window snapping on the Mac will snap windows to any of the following targets: edges of other windows, the menu bar, the top of the Dock (if visible), and the sides of the screen. Earlier versions of MacOS do not have the feature but could rely on third party utilities to gain similar functionality if desired. You’ll need a modern version of Mac OS system software to have the window snapping feature introduced in Sierra, anything beyond 10.12 will include the ability natively and not require any third party apps or utilities.

Window snapping is a helpful but fairly subtle feature, we’ll show you how it works in MacOS.

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