You will soon lose the overview if you have too many windows open on your Mac. In this article, we’ll show you how to easily enlarge a window and make it full screen.
This is how you can enlarge a Mac window
There are several reasons for displaying a window in full screen. Not only do you have less distraction by only having one app in view, the extra space can also lead to improved productivity. It can be very useful for some apps to have more visibility, such as when editing photos or video.
Clicking the green button at the top left will make the active window full screen. The Mac menu at the top of the screen will then disappear, and your other windows will be on a different desktop. If you still want to display a screen as large as possible without losing the menu, you can do this with the options below.
Four ways to enlarge windows
With the Zoom function you can at least adjust the height of your window to your screen. To do this, click ‘Window>’ Zoom at the top of the Mac menu. The app that you currently have open will then become the same height as your screen, without hiding the menu. You can also double click on the window bar to activate ‘Zoom’.
The green button at the top left can also enlarge a window in another way. To do this, hold down Shift + Option, after which you press the green button. Your active window will then be displayed full screen, again without hiding the Mac menu.
If you want to make managing windows on your Mac even easier, you can also use the app BetterSnapTool use. This app is not free (4.49 euros), but it makes organizing your windows a lot easier. By dragging an app against the top edge of your screen, BetterSnapTool automatically fills the screen. This also works against the sides, so you can put two windows side by side.
Of course you can also just drag windows to the size you need. To do this, put your cursor on one of the corners of a window and click, after which you can drag the screen as large as you want.
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