With macOS Sequoia, Apple has finally introduced automatic window tiling for Mac. With tiling natively available in macOS Sequoia, you don't need to resort to third-party apps to arrange your app windows conveniently.

With tiling, there are various options available for arranging your windows, like tiling windows side-by-side, or in the four corners. Here's how tiling works in macOS Sequoia.

Note: At the time of this writing, macOS Sequoia is still in Developer Beta. The public beta will be available next month and the public update will be available later this fall, but you can install the Developer Beta on your Mac right now if you want.

Tile Windows by dragging them

The first option at your disposal for tiling the Windows is by dragging them.

  1. You can tile a window to the left half of the screen by dragging it all the way to the left edge of the screen. When you drag the window to the left edge, the boundary for the tile will appear.
  1. Release it and the window will snap to that area.
  1. Similarly, by dragging it to the right edge, it resizes and rearranges itself to the right half of the screen.
  2. Drag it to the upper corner of the screen to snap the window into the whole space on your desktop.
  1. When you drag the window back from its tile, it automatically returns to its original size.
  2. You can also drag the windows by holding down the Option key.
  3. When holding down the Option key, you don't have to drag the windows all the way to the left/ right edge. The tiles appear as you move towards the left half/ right half.
  4. There's also an option to snap a window into a corner tile but that option does not appear when holding down the Option key. To snap the window into any of the corners, drag the window and move your cursor to the respective corner.
  1. For example, if you move the cursor to the top-left corner of the screen, the window will snap into the 1/4th tile in the upper-left corner.
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Tip: If you don't want the margins around your windows when tiling them, open System Settings and navigate to Desktop & Dock. Then, scroll down to the Windows section and turn off the toggle for Tiled windows have margins.

Use the Green Button/ Menu Bar

Another way to tile your windows in macOS Sequoia is either using the green button from the top-left of each window or using the 'Window' menu from the menu bar. Both options provide a few same and a few different options, so both are worth checking out depending on your needs.

  1. If you hover over the green button, you'll find two rows of options for tiling: 'Move & Resize' and 'Fill & Arrange'.
  1. Using the options under the 'Move & Resize' section, you can move and resize the particular window to the position indicated in the icon. You can move the window to the left half, right half, upper half, and bottom half of the screen. The latter two are not available when dragging your apps.
  2. From the options under 'Fill & Arrange', you can arrange the most active windows into the pattern chosen. For example, if you choose the last option, your 4 most recent active windows will arrange themselves in that pattern. If you have less than 4 windows open, it will show empty space in the pattern.
  3. Similarly, you can find tiling options in the 'Window' menu from the menu bar.
  1. In the Window menu, you'll find the options for 'Fill' and 'Centre' right away. Fill will do the same thing as dragging your window to the top edge. With Centre, your app will resize and appear in the center of the screen leaving considerable space in on each side.
  1. For more options, go to the 'Move & Resize' sub-menu.

    You'll find options for moving a window to halves or quarters as well as rearranging windows in different layouts. You'll find that the options here for rearranging windows are different from the ones you'll find in the Green button menu.

Use Keyboard Shortcuts

You can also use keyboard shortcuts for certain layouts and tiling options.

Move & Resize

  • Fill: Fn + Ctrl + F
  • Center: Fn + Ctrl + C
  • Left half: Fn + Ctrl + Left arrow
  • Right half: Fn + Ctrl + Right arrow
  • Top half: Fn + Ctrl + Top arrow
  • Bottom half: Fn + Ctrl + Bottom arrow

Arrange

  • Left & Right: Fn + Ctrl + Shift + Left arrow
  • Right & Left: Fn + Ctrl + Shift + Right arrow
  • Top & Bottom: Fn + Ctrl + Shift + Top arrow
  • Bottom & Top: Fn + Ctrl + Shift + Bottom arrow

Return to original size: Fn + Ctrl + R

With tiling, you can easily resize and rearrange your windows in macOS Sequoia. Before macOS Sequoia, you have to manually resize and rearrange your windows which is quite counterproductive.