Two Monitors - UI Window Always Loads Off Screen - Can't Resize Mac OS 14.5
This has been a bug for at least 5 years with InDesign (see link at the bottom of the post).
When a Mac user has two monitors, if the primary monitor is situated "lower" than the secondary monitor in a side-by-side configuration in the Display "Arrange" setting (see screenshot, main display is laptop, on right), then the windows will always load slightly off screen, locking the user out of moving them or rearranging them.
There is a temporary fix to put the main monitor "higher" than the secondary monitor in the horizontal arrangement.
However, this is an unacceptable long term fix. The Display Arrangement tool is so that you can position your monitors virtually how they are set up physically to make moving things between them intuitive and easy.
Moving them out of alignment to accommodate one weird Adobe product issue is silly.
Mac users with multiple side-by-side monitors is NOT a small part of the InDesign userbase. This is not a niche issue. Many many users have this basic setup. This bug has existed for way too long, since at least 2019.
Please fix this.
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David Robles commented
I've had this issue for years an finally found 2 things that help solve the issue. Unfortunately its just a workaround and not a permanent solution.
The quickest way is to disconnect your external monitor for a quick second and reconnect.
The second method I've found is to go into your settings > Control Center > scroll to the very bottom and it says "Automatically hide and show the menu bar" and change it to "Desktop" or "Always". move your window down and then put it back to "In Full Screen Only" or whatever setting you had originally.
Hope one of those 2 fixes helps.
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Carolyn Casey
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I have 3 displays, and one of them is a laptop. The laptop is below the 27" display. You can't move it down or up only to the side to fix the problem. It's been driving me crazy for years.
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Maik
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I'm also a Mac user, just not for Adobe software, and I wonder why someone with upper and lower monitor would set it up as side by side, which means left and right, and not top/bottom.
Also, what's the problem in the first screenshot?