Does Apple just forget Full Screen exists??

[2638se]

26.4 now.

Maps is outright hideous/broken in Full Screen.

TextEdit tab bar is an abomination in Full Screen.

Safari Sidebar is completely broken in Full screen if you autohide toolbar.
And Switching tabs in Tab view will clip out tab bar.
And just generally weird padding.

Spotlight just refuses to switch to Finder from a Full Screen app if Quick Look is active.

Any new Folder opened from a Full Screen app would open a new Finder window just ignoring "Open folders in tabs instead of new windows" in Finder settings outright.

Also the age long bug that the higher your display refresh rate goes, the longer the swipe space animation would be. (It does not stop at 120hz, the animation on my 165hz display is even more laughably slower than that)

Steve would never……

 

[!!!]

I wish they would. Unfortunately, the green circle still defaults to full-screen and you have to hold the option key while pressing it.

 

[chrono1081]

26.4 now.

Maps is outright hideous/broken in Full Screen.

Holy crap how did they even miss that? I didn't even check the others you listed.

 

[2638se]

Holy crap how did they even miss that? I didn't even check the others you listed.

The only conclusion I could come to is that they simply don’t care about Full Screen anymore. But at the same time their new UI with huge uneven round corners create these hot corners if you just “Fill” them. I guess Apple just doesn’t care anymore in general……

 

[ry-guy]

Also why can’t you widen system settings windows? There was another one, i think the app launcher, stuck at a stupid width. Is there a setting I’m missing somewhere?

 

[tomtad]

Hopefully it's a sign that this feature will be getting a rethink or demoted in a future release, hopefully with some improvements to window management and spaces.

Personally I think Apple needs to switch the default behaviour of the green button to maximize, you can then list in the pop up when you hover 'Full screen in new space' to evoke the previous behaviour.

 

[thebart]

Hopefully it's a sign that this feature will be getting a rethink or demoted in a future release, hopefully with some improvements to window management and spaces.

Personally I think Apple needs to switch the default behaviour of the green button to maximize, you can then list in the pop up when you hover 'Full screen in new space' to evoke the previous behaviour.

Seems like a no brainer to have a toggle to switch the default behavior

But they haven't done it in 30 years, so...

 

[CasualFanboy]

If the iPhone doesn't support full-screen, then yes, they probably forgot that full-screen exists.

 

[okkibs]

If the iPhone doesn't support full-screen, then yes, they probably forgot that full-screen exists.

All the iPhone ever does is full screen. It doesn't have any other mode to begin with which is particularly great on my 17 Pro Max that doesn't really show me much more content at once than my previous iPhone with 6" did. What I notice instead is how menu items and other UI elemets are placed further apart compared to iOS 18.

The only other OS that utilizes the traffic lights is just as bad, on my iPad I previously had the workspaces bar on the left permanently enabled as well as the dock at the bottom. Switching between full-screen and the previous mode was a quick drag of the bottom right corner away and took just a moment to ensure both bars remain visible.

On iPadOS 26 I go to maximize a window and when I undo that action with the green light sometime later suddenly the dock is gone and there's an empty space below where the dock was before maximizing. Dragging the window around can make it appear again but with multiple spaces and a dozen windows it's impossible to get anything done as I'm constantly fighting the windows.

Freely resizing neither works with my hand nor with the expensive Apple Pencil Pro, you set it to where you want it and as you let go the window moves ever so slightly and I am left with the bottom inch on the display empty instead of showing the dock. On macOS there's window snapping where I just hold the window to the corner and it offers me a usable automatic window sizing. The iPad is in dire need of this functionality. In a way that works with touch because you know, it's an iPad.