Some macOS apps are not launching in full-screen mode I am using macOS Catalina and I noticed that a few apps in my system are not launching in full-screen mode. Every time I start those apps, I have to manually make them go full-screen.
The apps that currently display this behavior are VLC and, zoom.us.
I have followed the similar discussion in: https://osxdaily.com/2018/05/15/make-apps-open-full-screen-mac-automatically/, and unchecked the box corresponding to &quot;Close windows when quitting an app&quot;. While it is working for most of the apps but failed for few including above two.
Is there any proper way to force the apps in question to launch full-screen every time?
VLC has its own fullscreen structure; which means you can have the playlist windowed or fullscreen as you wish, then the movie fullscreened, either by re-using the same Space, or by invoking the Mac's native fullscreen structure, as you desire.
Prefs cover all eventualities/combinations…

VLC also has no capability to follow the Mac's &quot;Close windows when quitting an app&quot; pref. It always opens just the playlist window &amp; never saves/reloads previous files automatically.
[Almost] all prefs changes in VLC require you to relaunch the app to take effect.
Zoom, I've never used.