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Vertical monitor screen splitting?
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I would think that as long as your Display settings were placed in Portrait rather than landscape, you should be able to position/resize your apps for top and bottom. I just hooked my MBA to my monitor and you'll see that you have multiple options when setting up your vertical monitor--see screenshot. For the MBA monitor, I have it set up as Standard/Landscape.
This is the way it works on my work windows laptop with one vertical monitor and two landscape monitors. I just hooked my MBA to my monitor and you'll see that for you have multiple options--see screenshot.
From your picture, it looks like you have Safari on top and Chrome on the bottom with room to spare for another if you position and re-size the windows so that they stack. Not unless I'm not understanding your objective.
I only have Teams on my work laptop, and I can open it/resize to place it anywhere (split screen) on either of my landscape monitors or the vertical monitor. It also works the same if I am on a Teams call when the meeting window opens. Not sure how different it is on a Mac though so maybe someone else might have a better solution.
I only have Teams on my work laptop, and I can open it/resize to place it anywhere (split screen) on either of my landscape monitors or the vertical monitor. It also works the same if I am on a Teams call when the meeting window opens. Not sure how different it is on a Mac though so maybe someone else might have a better solution.
Ok, even though the picture below is in landscape, I was still able to position and re-size the windows which should work the same in vertical. I was also able to click into Pages and type and then clicking into Safari to scroll without one or the other taking over the full screen. I can only use one window at a time.
But I would want safari on top and pages on bottom. Can you do that? Not left and right
You should be able to position the windows however you want. My pic was just to use as an example. Open say Safari and move the window to the top of the screen then open Pages and move that window to the bottom of the screen. The concept should be the same in both orientations. You can use the corners of each window to widen/lengthen the window to take full advantage of the space once you are satisfied with the positioning if you want that option.
The only way to open a second app that is not the same is to open it side by side left to right. If I put pages on the bottom half I can’t open another application or if I slide a new one to that page the other app disappears
How do you have your displays setup in Settings>Displays>Rotation--refer to my first screenshot (Standard or 90º)?
Can you get your screen to have two different apps one on top of the other?
This pic is just my MBA screen having repositioned and resized the windows with Kindle on top and Safari on the bottom.
I should also note that the repositioning/resizing allows both apps to have their own 'space' which does not cause either one to put the other in the background if say I want to continue reading in my Kindle app while also having an eye on and being able to browse in Safari.
Could you walk me through what you did to resize? Because I can’t open a second app on the same screen unless I hover over the green button top left and pick a side left or right to drop it. If I slide a different app to that monitor it takes over the screen and I have no option to open another application
What you're looking for is a free app like this: https://rectangleapp.com/
If you drag a window to the edge of the screen, it will split the vertical screen into halves, thirds, etc.
If you drag a window to the edge of the screen, it will split the vertical screen into halves, thirds, etc.
I don’t think you can use Apple’s official split screen feature to position them top and bottom.
I would try the app Magnet from the Mac App Store, it’s about $10 but it will let you drag and hold a window (for example) on the top of your vertical monitor, it will resize it to fill the top half, and if you hold another app on the bottom, it’ll resize to the bottom half.
You can totally customize the app to resize the app to however you’d like, and also I think there’s a feature that’ll let you resize vertically when holding the green maximize button
I would try the app Magnet from the Mac App Store, it’s about $10 but it will let you drag and hold a window (for example) on the top of your vertical monitor, it will resize it to fill the top half, and if you hold another app on the bottom, it’ll resize to the bottom half.
You can totally customize the app to resize the app to however you’d like, and also I think there’s a feature that’ll let you resize vertically when holding the green maximize button
Does magnet work for that? I snap it to the top but then I can’t get a different app to come up on that same screen without the first app disappearing
If you place your cursor to one of the corners of the window, you should be able to resize your window. I'm not talking about the green resize button, but manually resizing. When you are at any corner, you pointer cursor should turn into a double-end arrow which you can the use to 'drag' the window to the size and shape you want.
The double-ended arrow looks something like this.
