Stack the windows of each app in Mission Control
With fifteen windows open, Mission Control is a mosaic you have to read. One checkbox turns it into piles, one per app.
Works on: macOS Ventura 13 and later · checked on macOS Golden Gate 27
Published: · Source: Snoflaa
Mission Control spreads every open window across the screen at once. With five windows that is a map. With fifteen it is a mosaic in which four browser windows sit scattered between a terminal, two chats and a spreadsheet, and you have to read each thumbnail to find anything.
Open System Settings → Desktop & Dock, scroll down to the Mission Control section and turn on Group windows by application. Now Mission Control keeps each app’s windows together: you choose the app first and the window second, which is how you were thinking about it anyway.
What you give up is position. Ungrouped, a window stays roughly where it was on screen, so you can go for it from memory. Grouped, everything gets rearranged by app.
Under a handful of windows the default is better. Past a dozen, grouping wins easily. It is a checkbox either way, so give each a day.
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