February 12, 2026
Resizegate: Apple giveth, Apple taketh
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
Apple fixes window resizing, then yanks it—users roast, Windows fans pile on
TLDR: Apple briefly fixed macOS Tahoe’s finicky window-resize edges in the beta, then pulled the change in the final release, re-labeling it a known issue. Commenters erupted: Windows users bragged about snapping, Apple fans memed Steve Jobs, and nerds battled over stats and usability.
Apple said it fixed macOS Tahoe’s annoying window-resize edges in the beta—then shipped the final update and quietly reversed it. The blog author even built a click-spamming test app to prove the beta fix: the resize zone followed the rounded corner, but the “sweet spot” shrank from 7 pixels to 6. By release day, the fix was gone and the notes flipped from “Resolved” to “Known Issue.” Cue the popcorn.
Windows users swarmed in with victory laps. One newcomer laughed, “There’s no auto-snap?” while others pined for Microsoft’s FancyZones and “tied edges” that resize two apps together. A power-user grumbled, “I don’t want secret squirrel key combos,” begging Apple to make snapping an obvious, built‑in feature.
Then came the nerd fight. A commenter mocked the “14% worse” stat, arguing the math is spin and reminding everyone that Fitts’s Law—the idea that bigger targets are easier to hit—doesn’t scale linearly. Meanwhile, the meme crowd declared, “Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave,” collecting easy upvotes.
Bottom line: users don’t want hidden tricks; they want big, easy edges and simple window snapping. The fix-then-unfix move felt like Apple teasing a solution, yanking it back, and telling everyone to aim better.
Key Points
- •Apple’s macOS 26.3 Release Candidate release notes claimed a fix for a window-resizing hit area issue.
- •A test app performed pixel-by-pixel scans using simulated clicks to map resize interaction zones around a window’s bottom-right corner.
- •In the RC, resize areas followed the window’s corner radius instead of square regions, improving alignment with rounded corners.
- •The vertical/horizontal-only resize zone thinned: inside-frame thickness dropped from 3 to 2 pixels; total thickness from 7 to 6 pixels (~14% decrease).
- •In the final macOS 26.3 release, the RC fix was removed, reverting to square regions, and release notes moved the item from “Resolved Issue” to “Known Issue.”