You've swapped from application 1 to application 2
Press Cmd, Press tab, Release tab, Release tab
You swap from application 2 to application 1
That if you type something after swapping window and the behaviour changes is even worse!
For cycling
Press Cmd, Press Tab, release Tab, Press Tab, Release Tab, you can move from application 1 to application 3, although it doesn't switch immediately, just shows you a menu while you hold down Cmd
Do this with windows and the actual window changes as you move, not a menu
It's poor behaviour and one reason I prefer my linux desktop to my anicent macbook. (Another reason, I've got about 15 opwn terminals, but I can't just raise 1 terminal window above my browser, I have to raise them all. Of course there's no focus-follows-mouse either, it's all very user-unfriendly, at least by default. I'm sure there's some software that might fix this, but back in the 90s when I was using Windows I remember that sort of software was just terrible. The easier option is to finally fix my linux laptop, which died around the time covid started, and thus wasn't a critical path fix)
You've swapped from window 1 to window 2
Press Cmd, Press `, Release `, Release Cmd
You swap from window 2 to window 3
Press Cmd, Press tab, Release tab, Release Cmd
You've swapped from application 1 to application 2
Press Cmd, Press tab, Release tab, Release tab
You swap from application 2 to application 1
That if you type something after swapping window and the behaviour changes is even worse!
For cycling
Press Cmd, Press Tab, release Tab, Press Tab, Release Tab, you can move from application 1 to application 3, although it doesn't switch immediately, just shows you a menu while you hold down Cmd
Do this with windows and the actual window changes as you move, not a menu
It's poor behaviour and one reason I prefer my linux desktop to my anicent macbook. (Another reason, I've got about 15 opwn terminals, but I can't just raise 1 terminal window above my browser, I have to raise them all. Of course there's no focus-follows-mouse either, it's all very user-unfriendly, at least by default. I'm sure there's some software that might fix this, but back in the 90s when I was using Windows I remember that sort of software was just terrible. The easier option is to finally fix my linux laptop, which died around the time covid started, and thus wasn't a critical path fix)