Owners: how permanent are 'pinned' windows?

[anthonymoody]

So I've seen lots of demos where e.g. a guy puts up a giant 'movie theater' type window in his livingroom, and also has a bunch of different windows in a different spot in his home, like maybe a browser and other productivity stuff at his desk. He walks from room to room and the windows are where he left them. Cool!

But, will they still be there the next day? After you reset the AVP? Do they ever auto close?

If they're "there until manually closed" are there other limits to how permanent they are? Like could I put a window up on a wall at my local mall that would be there every time I go to the mall? And can you pin two windows of the same app in two different locations? Like could I have AppleTV up in both my livingroom and den at the same time? Showing different shows, or would they be synced?

Basically trying to get an understanding of how persistent environments are. I'd love to set up a productivity set up in my office with a bunch of different windows exactly where I want them. I just wouldn't want to do that every day or every time I put the AVP on.

TIA

 

[G5isAlive]

Apple windows are persistent until you pull off the power cord. It has no internal battery to power storage after shut down, and its not saving anything in the cloud (yet). They are persistent when in standby mode (you take the headset off but leave it plugged in).

 

[dwhite601]

Mac OS has an option for preserving 2D Finder window locations. This is something that Apple could add to Vision OS, but they would need a way to designate which apps auto relaunch after bootup. Of course they would also need a 'Find My App' or Summon Home' feature.

David

 

[DrewDowne]

It is all memory dependent. They will stay in place as long as your Vision Pro has enough memory or you don’t shut down/restart. From my experience, I had about 10-12 windows remain in place (your milage may vary depending on how intensive your apps are). Once you reach its max memory utilization, it will begin to purge out apps and forget their location.

To answer your other question, you cannot have multiple windows open for the same app. If you have an app open in one location already, your only two options are keeping it in that same location or relocating that same window to a new space. The only app that is an exception to this rule is Safari where you can have multiple webpage windows open.

 

[anthonymoody]

Great to know - thanks very much to each of you for the info!

 

[anthonymoody]

Actually I do have an additional question please. My MBP is connected to an external monitor when I'm at my desk. It's a 5k/2k widescreen monitor, and I have the primary desktop set up with 3 columns of windows (mail above messages, browser in the middle, and calendar above whatsapp). If I mirrored that to the AVP, what will I see?

 

[Eugr]

If I mirrored that to the AVP, what will I see?

You will see a single 2680x1440 (or so) screen in front of you. Your Mac and connected displays will go black.

You can adjust the resolution in display settings up to 5K (need to enable all resolutions to see that option).

 

[anthonymoody]

You will see a single 2680x1440 (or so) screen in front of you. Your Mac and connected displays will go black.

You can adjust the resolution in display settings up to 5K (need to enable all resolutions to see that option).

Thanks! This is getting interesting. SO for clarity, I run the 5k/2k at 3840 x 1620 HiDPI. Would some version of that resolution appear in space, in a 21:9 window?? Trying to understand how it mirrors the shape of the screen as much as the resolution itself.

 

[G5isAlive]

It is all memory dependent. They will stay in place as long as your Vision Pro has enough memory or you don’t shut down/restart. From my experience, I had about 10-12 windows remain in place (your milage may vary depending on how intensive your apps are). Once you reach its max memory utilization, it will begin to purge out apps and forget their location.

To answer your other question, you cannot have multiple windows open for the same app. If you have an app open in one location already, your only two options are keeping it in that same location or relocating that same window to a new space. The only app that is an exception to this rule is Safari where you can have multiple webpage windows open.

You can also create multiple instances of the files app… and you can have multiple photos open in their own floating window from Photos…and multiple windows open from Files in the same way. Click on a file and it opens in quick view if its a jpg for example.

 

[Eugr]

Thanks! This is getting interesting. SO for clarity, I run the 5k/2k at 3840 x 1620 HiDPI. Would some version of that resolution appear in space, in a 21:9 window?? Trying to understand how it mirrors the shape of the screen as much as the resolution itself.

I believe, all resolutions would have 16:9 aspect ratio.

 

[anthonymoody]

I believe, all resolutions would have 16:9 aspect ratio.

Gotcha thanks.

 

[Night Spring]

To answer your other question, you cannot have multiple windows open for the same app. If you have an app open in one location already, your only two options are keeping it in that same location or relocating that same window to a new space. The only app that is an exception to this rule is Safari where you can have multiple webpage windows open.

What about Pages or Word, can you open multiple documents at once? And same thing with PDFs. I'd also love to be able to open multiple epubs at once, but Apple seems to have abandoned making Books app actually useful, so I'm not too hopeful about that.

 

[subjonas]

You can also create multiple instances of the files app… and you can have multiple photos open in their own floating window from Photos…and multiple windows open from Files in the same way. Click on a file and it opens in quick view if its a jpg for example.

This is good news for me because I need to spread out many reference images/docs for work. Is there a limit to how many windows you can have open at once in Files?

I also have the same questions about OneDrive if anyone knows.

Thanks

 

[G5isAlive]

This is good news for me because I need to spread out many reference images/docs for work. Is there a limit to how many windows you can have open at once in Files?

I also have the same questions about OneDrive if anyone knows.

Thanks

No clue about an absolute limit, for me there is a practical limit of 10 or so, haven’t tried higher