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There are many wrong answers here and other places on Google. Here is the scenerio:

  1. Use more than 1 window and more than 1 desktop.
  2. Have browser open on monitor A. This you never want to activate, you are just reading from it
  3. Have a second window of the same browser open on monitor B. This you want to tab to.
  4. Have a fullscreen app like a terminal also on monitor B.
  5. Activate the second browser window on monitor B
  6. Tab to terminal
  7. TRY TO TAB BACK TO BROWSER and end up with browser on monitor A as active and monitor B still showing the terminal.
  8. At this point people suggest using CMD+~ to switch focused window. This does not work when the window I want is "hidden in an inactive desktop".

Desired effect:

CMD+TAB brings be back to the last active window of the selected application in app switcher. Meaning I could tab between the two applications/desktops on monitor B without messing with monitor A or browser window there.

How can I make it so that cmd+tab works like this? Is there a setting I am unaware of or is there maybe a tool that works like this instead?

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    What is the question ?
    – Z0OM
    Commented Jul 15, 2022 at 8:51
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    How can I achieve my desired effect? Either through a config or third party tool to make mac behave the way I expect/desire it to.
    – alkemann
    Commented Jul 15, 2022 at 8:54
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    Why not just use the Spaces key commands instead? Basically, you're fighting a paradigm [one that Jobs started, & Cook forgot about, so you now have two broken structures] - Spaces was never designed to work with an app spread over more than one Space & fullscreen broke the existing perfectly good Spaces implementation. So, you're stuck. Cmd/Tab is always going to go back to a seemingly randomly-chosen 'favourite' window… which is also broken by having an app on multiple Spaces]
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Jul 15, 2022 at 9:01
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    Unfortunately the only thing I could find from those links is confirmation that Apple don't have a solution for working with my setup. It certainly COULD though, since when I have only ONE browser window, cmd+tab takes me to it, whereever it is. So my hope is that there is a thirdparty tool that helps me. I am already a paid user of BetterTouchTool to overcome other limitations of Mac. And I do use four finger gesture to switch between spaces. But when I have 4 fullscreen apps and 3 monitors and 2-3 browsers windows, tabbing to application instead of scrolling through spaces is better..
    – alkemann
    Commented Jul 15, 2022 at 9:12
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    @Tetsujin spaces is not a fast solution... never will be better than cmd+tab between opened windows, like ANY OTHER OS DO, by default
    – user2342558
    Commented Dec 5, 2023 at 8:41

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