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Desktop icons snapping to the grid has been broken forever too. Every once in a while I'll have a space in the "grid" that just won't accept anything to be placed in it.

And god, don't even get me started on how the icons rearrange themselves when you're organizing your home screen / control center. I can't believe they actually shipped it like that and still haven't made it any better.

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Oh, I envy you, I have the exact opposite problem. Sometimes new icons start stacking up one over the other on the top right corner.

If you try moving one of the icons anywhere, it snaps back to the top right corner right away.

I haven't found a fix. The only fix is moving the icons away from the Desktop into another folder using a Finder window.

That is actually a feature called ‚Stacks‘. Open the context menu on your desktop and de-select ‚use stacks‘.

No, I know stacks and they're not them. In my case, new icons (e.g. downloads, files that I save, etc.) appear on top of each other, as if the desktop lost track of their position. It's clearly a bug that hasn't been fixed in a long time.

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