This small change could have a big positive effect on your day-to-day use of macOS.
What Is Window Tiling?
There are many ways to arrange windows on your desktop.
You might run most apps with a single full-screen window, or you might use several windows that overlap.
Or you might use another option: tiling.
When you tile windows, you arrange them on a grid alongside each other, with no overlap.
Tiling lets you make the most of your screen space and see the full contents of active windows.
Previously, window tiling was tied to a full-screen view, but this latest version is much more flexible.
First, you might now cause windows to tile by dragging them.
Tiling options were only previously available under the green button in the top-left of each app window.
Unlike Split View, it doesnt force you to choose another window to take up unused space.
Fill & Arrangelets you tile one, two, three, or four windows at once.
These new options are significantly different from the previousFull Screenones.
They do not hide the menu bar and they allow other windows to overlap them.
Think of them as shortcuts to position and size windows, just as you otherwise would with the mouse.
Here are some simple tips on how youll be able to make the most of it.
Margins Can Help Your Windows Breathe
TheTiled windows have marginssetting controls the space between tiled windows.
The setting toggles between a zero-pixel gap and one thats approximately seven pixels.
This gap appears on all sides of tiled windows, including next to the screen edge.
Turning the margin off will also give you a tiny bit more screen estate to work with.
The left/right halves layout works well with a web web app, showing two portrait windows side-by-side.
Top/bottom halves seems a bit less useful, but it could be effective when document editing.
The four corners arrangement is very useful for Finder or Terminal windows.
Such windows can afford to be quite small, but these apps benefit from having many available at once.
