I would like to thank you very much for this informative, clearly laid out page! Do you have any questions or tips and hints for the display adjustments on the Mac, iMac and MacBook from Apple? Then please leave a comment on the topic! In addition to the cursor size, you will also find other display settings that could make it easier for you to recognize the screen content:ĭo you want to personalize the desk in macOS Sierra and macOS High Sierra, reduce or enlarge the text, adjust symbols and objects and use the screen zoom? Then there is on this Apple support page even more instructions and tips that you can use. Select "Display" in the left menu and adjust the cursor size as you wish. To do this, go to the system settings again (via the apple icon, Launchpad or Dock) and click on "Accessibility". If the resolution is very high or the setting is simply quite small, you can also make adjustments here. The problem is not always the font and the symbols of directories, folders and files, but also the mouse pointer. Enlarging / zooming in on the page: ⌘ +.Here are the three key combinations that you should remember in order to display Internet pages with small fonts larger and large-format pages smaller: In Safari as well as in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and other web browsers for surfing the Internet, you can change the size of the displayed pages with short key combinations. This window appears for adjustments:Ĭustomize the webpage display in the browser Alternatively, you can use the key combination ⌘T. To do this, open the application and click on "Format" in the menu bar and then on "Show fonts". In addition to the toolbar buttons, which you can use to quickly and easily customize the entire display of emails, you can also assign individually selected font sizes to individual fonts and styles in the Mail app. Then you drag the larger / smaller button in the toolbar and you can then quickly and easily make adjustments:
With the mail app open, click on "Appearance" in the menu bar and then on "Customize toolbar. If the display of the electronic mail in it seems too small or too large to you, then simply adjust it. The operating system for Apple computers comes with its own mail app for managing your mailboxes and emails. Set the font larger or smaller in the mail app There you then select "General" and can choose between small, medium and large in the "Size of the sidebar icons" roll menu. To do this, you call up the system settings via the apple icon, the launchpad or the dock. But there are also customization options for the list of storage locations. You can adjust the folders and files displayed as well as their names using the procedure described above. In the left column of the Finder you can call up different directories. Adjust the size of the directory overview in the Finder Further options are the position of the symbol designations (bottom or right), the display of object information, the symbol preview and the type of sorting. In addition, the text size can be adjusted in the Finder (and thus on the desk) - from 10 points to 16 points. If you choose one of these three ways, a window will be displayed in which you will find controls for the symbol size and for the grid spacing (distance between the symbols).
If these are displayed too large or too small, you can make adjustments in the "Display options".
In the Finder, the system Browser under Mac OS X and macOS, you will find directories, folders and files. But now to the individual solutions: Change font and icons for Finder & Desktop But you can regulate the resolution of the display / the connected monitors down so that everything is shown larger overall - or you screw it up so that everything becomes smaller. There is not really a comprehensive guide with which you can enlarge or reduce the elements equally everywhere. In the following, I will show you options for adjusting the symbol sizes and font sizes and positions on the Mac. Sir Apfelot recommendation: Clean up your Mac hard drive with CleanMyMac Change symbol and font size in macOS