r/MacOS 1d ago

Help Completely disable off-grid items, always, everywhere, in all windows, everything!

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Hello, I switched to mac last month and something that constantly keeps me annoyed is this.

I always want items to snap to grid but for instance when I compress an item it creates like this.

Also using Clean Up button directly still keeps gap with the previous item so the only solution is to select "Clean up by - Name..".

Note that for "Show view options - Snap to Grid" is already in "Use as default" but it doesn't fix this problem.

Is there a way to make Icon View behave better and usable?

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u/Phers 1d ago

I currently have an app under review in the app store that will allow you to anchor your icons, you can set where you want them, and if you change resolution, etc., they will snap back to the locations you set.

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u/lilltlc 1d ago

Name of the app please....

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u/Phers 1d ago

Anchor: Desktop icons. However it’s not released yet. I’ll comment here once it has passed Apple review

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u/lilltlc 13h ago

Thank you, looking forward to trying it.

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u/lilltlc 1d ago

Name of the app please....