Apple’s macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position — here’s how

For many a year, Windows users have been dragging their program windows over to the borders of the screen to snap them into position, splitting the screen up evenly into halves or quarters. Now, with the rollout of macOS Sequoia, Mac users can do the same. You can get a Spotify playlist up alongside your email inbox, for example, or a report you're writing up alongside the online articles you're reporting on. It means less switching between windows and more information on the screen.

Once you've got macOS Sequoia installed on your Mac, you can take advantage of what Apple calls window tiling. There are several methods you can use.

Use the green button

Move the cursor up to the green zoom button to the left of any open window.A choice of tiling options will pop up: you can maximize the window, snap it to the side of a screen, or place it in one quarter of the screen. Make your choice, and the other open windows will snap into place to match (filling out the other quarters of the screen, for example).

Click and drag

Alternatively, you can click and drag an open window into position to tile it. 

Move the window to one edge to fill half the screen, up to the top to fill the whole screen, and up or down to a display corner to fill a quarter of the screen. When you use this method, only the selected window is affected, so the others don't change to fit. Hold down the Option key while dragging to see outlines of the screen zones you can drop windows into.