I need the space. I’m a MacBook Air user and when the 15" came out I jumped on it and I’m so glad I did. Just for my own yuks I tried Stage Manager and still didn’t like it. It just takes up too much room and I just have not been able to find it useful.
Longtime Spaces user, and it’s where/how I spend most of my time. Most of the time I disable Stage Manager.
Occasionally tho I have a project which has me quickly bouncing back & forth between three or four apps -eg multiple browsers, FTP, & BBEdit. Stage Manager is great in those situations.
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I use a 13 inch Macbook Air exclusively. Not enough screen real estate to take advantage of it.
Nice to read comments here – I had forgotten if I tested it or not, but likely I will not be able to make much use of it as I regularly need every pixel of the screen for a window (and have not even get accustomed to use windows in full screen mode (likely I will never do so – i only do it when I need to for something momentarily). If I had used an or several external screens I would likely have used SM and might one day. Hardly ever use Mission Control or Launchpad either, nor do I use virtual desktop (mostly because then even more apps will be lingering on in active mode eating up RAM – and the new Silicon Macs seems worse in handling RAM than ever from my own experience and that of many clients, though just recently the excessive RAM use seems to have gone away – maybe Apple fixed some bugs – they never tell us …). I am “conservative” and still files my mail manually! ;-)
My main machine has two largish monitors, and I use (many) Spaces/virtual desktops, easily switching among them with a flick of fingers on my trackpad-enabled Apple mouse. One space on the side monitor is just for mail. Some spaces are for work projects, some for reading & news, zoom calls, movies, etc. Often I have one or more screen-shares with remote machines I’m working on - each has its own full-screen space, so I can switch among machines with just a swipe on my mouse, with things like copy-paste working between machines. I tend to use every inch of display space, and that plus, honestly, a lot of negative commentary early on, left me uncurious about Stage Manager. My iPad is a mini, so too small to make good use - I think. Comments on this poll have made me more interested in SM!
I don’t have access to it because I’m not running Ventura, but it doesn’t sound like it would be useful for me anyway.
I tried it for a few weeks shortly after the feature was released but found that more often than not, it frequently got in the way. I turned it off and am much happier now.
Ditto. My iMac is maxed out at High Sierra.
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Stage Manager is just one more thing to confuse me. I use Full Screen when I want to concentrate or get maximum screen (14" M1 Macbook Pro). Otherwise I use either the Apple Command-Tab or Witch to change apps. I am usually in maximum size mode (still showing menu bar) so switching apps blocks out the others. And if they are not blocked out a quick Command-Control-H will hide all the others.
I’ve been using virtual desktop spaces forever. Stage Manager seems like a downgrade.
I tried it and could not see the point. Also I felt it made confusing and poor choices about which windows were in which spaces (or whatever they are called).
I use Spaces; I have defined all 16 of them, each with a designated function (e.g., mail, calendar, daily stuff) and switch between them using the numeric keypad keys on my keyboard. Spaces match the way I think and work, hiding irrelevant windows and apps without having to close them, but being able to switch to them as needed without any delay. My only complaint is that Apple so far has not provided developers, such as BBEdit (which I use in multiple spaces), with a way of knowing what space each window goes in when starting up and I then have to position them manually.
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I don’t. It takes up space.
No- I’m using Ventura on an m1 MacBook Pro, but don’t really need Stage Manager.
I experimented with Stage Manager briefly on my large-monitor iMac and my MacBook Pro 14". Honestly, its user interface confused me. Windows and apps seems to “swim” in and out of view inexplicably. I found myself “losing” windows I wanted in view while I worked on something. Eventually, all the “swimming” drove me batty, and I haven’t turned SM back on again since.
No; I’ve heard of it but have not taken the opportunity to use it.
I can’t use Stage Manager because my MacBook will not run Ventura.
Same as within my iPad, get out of the way, a nuisance.
I’ve tried it a few times but I find that my workflow (in general) often relies on my having two windows side-by-side so I can refer to one while working in the other. For that, I generally use Magnet which lets me use my keyboard to snap two windows side-by-side in seconds and then get to work. The fact that I have to keep swapping windows in Stage Manager is irritating to say the least. If I did not already have deeply-ingrained habits and was starting from scratch, it might be a great feature. But I’m set in my ways.
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No, I’m not even 100% sure what it does. I think it allows me to set up different “screens” with different stuff so I can switch back and forth? I’ve seen this feature on many OS’s and it never seems useful to me, just one more thing to remember. I could envision if I had two major divisions in my life, like between work and home, I’d want to segregate them - but actually I’m totally happy if they merge together.
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