Settings app not going full screen in

The System Settings app does not go 'full screen'. It can get no wider than the settings pane and no taller than the height of your display.

Thanks, so 'before' was a long time ago. If ever, I don't recall that System Settings/Preferences ever really went full screen on macOS, though the Settings app does on an iPad (and even that's now optional with iPadOS 26).

If you are speaking of System Setting and hit the Green Button in the Top Left

It will grown Vertically but not Full Screen

Tested on M4 Desktop with Tahoe 26.1

RobFluit wrote:

I have the same issue; just need the option to have things like the settings screen in real full screen like it was before, anyone who knows how to do this (still don't understand why things which were easy to control are now made impossible to regain...?)

As has been explained by my colleague @ neuroanatomist and illustrated by self 🦉-53

Not possible

Remember, Yes we own the computer

But we Lease the Operating System from Apple

As such, Apple is within their rights to change whatever they want and at whatever time they choose to

Feel free to let Apple know.

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I have the same issue; just need the option to have things like the settings screen in real full screen like it was before, anyone who knows how to do this (still don't understand why things which were easy to control are now made impossible to regain...?)

RobFluit wrote:

I have the same issue; just need the option to have things like the settings screen in real full screen like it was before, anyone who knows how to do this (still don't understand why things which were easy to control are now made impossible to regain...?)

When was before? Not in Sequoia, clicking the green dot there just maximizes the vertical dimension, it does not fill the screen.

Just top add, it didn't expand to Full Screen in Ventura.

Welcome. Nor do I but I rarely ever use Full Screen.

I guess you are right, and my memory was wrong, thanks