Monterey Preview Won't Open all PDFs in One Window

[chabig]

In Big Sur Preview, PDFs would always open in tabs within one window. Now in Monterey, every PDF opens in a separate window, regardless of my System Preferences setting for tabs.

- In System Preferences > General I have Prefer Tabs set to always
- In Preview Preferences I have Images > When opening files, open all files in one window (though I don't think this influences PDFs)

I have two accounts in this machine and I get the same results in both. I see the same thing on another Monterey machine. Any ideas?

 

[AZhappyjack]

Maybe it's just another bug.

 

[chabig]

I hope so. I reported it feedback.apple.com

 

[madschnun]

I have the exact same issue. Annoying bug as I work with pdfs a lot.

 

[usagora]

EDIT: Original post deleted

Sorry, was confusing the Preview image opening preference settings with the System Preference settings. I can confirm that Preview is opening IMAGES correctly per the Preview settings, but NOT PDFs as per the System Preferences settings.

I actually prefer NOT to open PDFs in tabs, but they definitely need to fix this. Makes me wonder what all the beta users and developers were doing that this is just now being caught!

 

[heitorsfp]

Same here!

 

[chabig]

This sounds like a simple bug, then. Let's look forward to 12.1.

 

[HardBall]

Yeah, it is definitely still an issue with 12.0.1

Hope they fix it soon.

This type of dysfunction should not have made it past QA

 

[lysingur]

Is this fixed in 12.1 Beta?

 

[dionysos283]

I'm experiencing the same bug. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

 

[dionysos283]

Is this fixed in 12.1 Beta?

In this article they say that it got fixed in 12.1 Beta 2.

macOS 12 Monterey Finder issue where multiple PDFs open in preview

It looks like the macOS 12 Monterey issue where the Finder app opened multiple PDFs in preview windows instead of tabs is still persistent.

piunikaweb.com

 

[chabig]

This is fixed in 12.1.