Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
newbie needs help for my windows mind
- Thread starter Ratsaremyfreinds
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Like this?
www.macworld.com
If your issue is that the menu bar automatically hides when you are running in full screen, use maximize (which maximizes to content, not to screen) instead of full screen, see this:
Or just get used to it.
I also had to get used to a different way of interacting, moving from windows to Mac. You essentially have to let go of trying to force a Mac to behave like windows, and instead embrace the Mac way. Resistance is futile.
How to turn on/off automatic hiding of the menu bar in macOS Big Sur 11
With macOS, Apple allows for the automatic hiding of the menu bar. Here's how to adjust this setting in macOS Big Sur.
www.macworld.com
If your issue is that the menu bar automatically hides when you are running in full screen, use maximize (which maximizes to content, not to screen) instead of full screen, see this:
Use apps in full screen on Mac
On your Mac, expand an app window to fill the entire screen.
support.apple.com
Or just get used to it.
I also had to get used to a different way of interacting, moving from windows to Mac. You essentially have to let go of trying to force a Mac to behave like windows, and instead embrace the Mac way. Resistance is futile.
Last edited:
i mean the bar with the time and battery meter it seems to only disapear when runing a app in full screen
This is by design, no way to change it. Only thing you can do is click the green button while holding Option to maximize an app while not full screening it. In most cases this should do you fine, but you may be unable to reset the window to the original size.
dang i am haveing issues learning all this. but what great hardware the m1 is
Everyone has the learning curve, I remember when OS X came out trying to get used to the new Finder and it took me a long time... Enjoy that M1, it's a performance beast compared to most windows offerings.
You can usually reset the window size by option-clicking the green button again, as zoom is a toggle.
The other way to zoom in and out is to double click the app title bar, which is what I do
Any games that are natively compiled for M1 should work perfectly fine, running older Intel titles via Rosetta will be hit-or-miss, but the basics should work. Keep in mind that many 32-bit games are gone forever.
New Mac user here - I had the same pain...so here is what to do...
When maximizing apps with green button - dont click it, but click and hold it. This will give you the option to maximize app which is different vs fullscreen.
When app is maximized it doesnt cover the top menu bar...
Before I realized this I really had troubles of getting used to this new philosophy, now I see its better than on Win. Also, Mac remembers the position of the app from prev launch - so you dont have to repeat this each time.
I had to learn the Mac way of doing things a few years ago and glad I made the switch. I too just got a new m1 MacBook Air and this is only my second day with it, Only charged the battery one time and that was Friday night after I used it for a few hours, the m1 MacBook air's are amazing and super performance.
Windows apps do the same thing when you run them in full screen. Maximize and full screen are not the same thing in the Windows world. The former allows the taskbar to remain visible (unless you enabled the autohide taskbar feature), while the latter takes up every available pixel on the screen.
There are workarounds to this, especially if you already have a Windows-based PC running Steam.