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[Bug] When I have multiple windows for the same app I expect "option-`" command to switch to the next instance #5894

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AltTab v11.4.3 — macOS: Version 26.5.2 (Build 25F84)
License: Pro

I don't know if this is a recent change but it seemed to work better before. I have 2 windows for iTerm2 and VSCode (for example).

When I'm in iTerm2 and press option-`, it selects the second window and then activates it. When I do it again, the order of the windows hasn't changed and it still selected the second window, which is the one that has focus.

I would expect that it set the current selection to the instance of the window that has focis initially, and then switch to the next one in the list. Otherwise, I now need to check visually which window is being targeted, making the shortcut much slower.

Debug profile

  • App preferences:
    • appearanceSize: 0
    • appearanceStyle: 0
    • crashPolicy: 1
    • hideColoredCircles: false
    • hideSpaceNumberLabels: false
    • hideStatusIcons: false
    • holdShortcut: {
      secureData = {length = 357, bytes = 0x62706c69 73743030 d4010203 04050607 ... 00000000 00000101 };
      string = "\U2318";
      }
    • holdShortcut2: {
      secureData = {length = 357, bytes = 0x62706c69 73743030 d4010203 04050607 ... 00000000 00000101 };
      string = "\U2318";
      }
    • previewFocusedWindow: false
    • settingsWindowShownOnFirstLaunch: true
    • updatePolicy: 1
  • Applications: 64
  • Windows: 22
  • OS architecture: arm64
  • Locale: en_US (fixed en_US)
  • InputSource: U.S.
  • Spaces: 3
  • Dark mode: Dark
  • "Displays have separate Spaces": checked
  • Hardware model: Mac16,12
  • Screens: 3
    • {x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: 2560.0, height: 1440.0, scale: 2.00, dpi: 186}
    • {x: 2560.0, y: 417.0, width: 1470.0, height: 956.0, scale: 2.00, dpi: 257}
    • {x: -1440.0, y: -916.0, width: 1440.0, height: 2560.0, scale: 2.00, dpi: 183}
  • CPU model: Apple M4
  • Memory size: 17.18 GB
  • Active CPU count: 10
  • Current CPU frequency: nil
  • Resource utilization:
    • CPU: 0.3%
    • Memory: 284M+
    • Threads count: 15

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