★ Why It Is Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoehttps://daringfireball.net/2026/01/resizing_windows_macos_26

@daringfireball Mac OS windows used to be resizable only from the corner. At some point they allowed resizing from any edge. Maybe that is why the resize affordance went away

@daringfireball maybe they could implement the iPadOS way by show small indicators when hovering over the corner (inside the window obv).

@daringfireball I got unnecessarily excited when I saw the bit about downgrading from macOS 26 until I realized that's not possible for iOS 26. I will regret that update incessantly.

@daringfireball Apple software is a complete mess right now. So sad.

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Dyehole John? Getting AI to write your stuff?

@glass @daringfireball You had no choice. Users on recent devices are not getting the latest security updates unless they go to iOS 26. I was forced to update to it.

@daringfireball I am not sure I understand this complaint. I get a two-ended arrow when I hover over the target area to resize—diagonal on the corner, horizontal on the sides and vertical on the bottom and top. Maybe a bit less clear than an always present indicator, but it works fine for me.

@daringfireball yes. And, it’s buggy and inconsistent. Another feature of Tahoe is layering bugs (click event delivered to wrong window that is not the top one, and timing bugs (events processed in clearly the wrong order). Whether the resize cursor even shows up is a crapshoot.

@daringfireball It’s extraordinary to me that Tim and Craig are getting off with no blame in this. They should have mitigated this disaster before it shipped. Dye didn’t operate in a vacuum, and there was clearly a lot of internal pushback being ignored by upper management.

@daringfireball @gruber - regarding your advice at the end of the article: "Do not upgrade to MacOS 26 Tahoe. If you have already upgraded, downgrade."

How does that play out into the future? Hope Apple fixes all of the design issues at some point this year? An expectation that MacOS 27 is better, and users should just skip Tahoe? Obviously, people can't just stay on Sequoia *forever*

Genuinely asking and curious what your longterm plan is.

@daringfireball @gruber I’d even accept outside-the-window, visionOS-style handles in macOS as a visual indicator. Just *anything* that I can *see* that doesn’t require a Dye-era mouse over.

@daringfireball I don't understand how the linked video is being made, how do you avoid getting the resizing mouse cursor when you hover in the right place?

@daringfireball oh I see this is to resize an inactive window

@daringfireball "The good news is, I have a solution. Do not upgrade to MacOS 26 Tahoe. If you have already upgraded, downgrade."

To fully use Xcode LLM tools Tahoe is required.

~"Sequoia is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking it up."

~"These days, everyone's talking about Sequoia, but for those of us whose name doesn't happen to be Rockefeller, finally there's some good news: Tahoe."

@zero101 The upgrade path is towards Linux, obviously.
/scnr

@GaryEckstein @daringfireball yeah, but point is that on 26, 75% of the “target area” is NOT actually on the window. It’s the invisible negative space where the window border isn’t visible. And if they want the target area to be part of the invisible corner, that would be fine. But, they didn’t expand the grabber target to the actual visible window edge except for a very small part. They should have made several pixels all around the border to be grabbale

@daringfireball Here’s an obnoxious years-old bug with resizing QuickLook windows. It catches me daily since my instinct is to resize from the very edge—due to the little visible margin around the preview.

In Sequoia:

• Approach a corner (not edge) with the cursor from outside the window.

• As soon as the cursor changes to a resize arrow, drag to resize.

OOPS!

That’s right, the region with the cursor change is LARGER than the region that can truly be dragged.

How’s this in Tahoe I wonder?

And don’t get me started on the lock screen Sleep button in Sequoia, which was moved to the very top corner of the screen and should be easy to hit despite the tiny size—EXCEPT it will not trigger if you click at the very edge!

Who needs Fitt’s Law??

(I have little hope of this being better in Tahoe, which I’m not installing. But some Tahoe-y problems go back years.)

@daringfireball “In my day we could resize windows the same way you can resize your dinner plate!“