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If you look at Mac or Windows, you’ll notice that they have a white cursor for pointing. Chrome OS is the only operating system that uses a black cursor in an effort to increase its visibility. Cursor Highlight Change your highlight color, opacity, size, and more. You can also choose to highlight only when you move your cursor. Lastly, these are just some of the features of Presentify. Visit the Mac App Store to know more. Go to Settings Accessibility Pointer Control, then adjust any of the following: Increase Contrast. Automatically Hide Pointer. Pointer Animations. Trackpad Inertia (available when connected to a supported multi-touch trackpad) Scrolling Speed. To customize the buttons of the pointing device, go to Settings Accessibility Touch AssistiveTouch Devices. In macOS Mojave, you can change the Terminal color and font by using the different profiles provided by Mac. Not even color and font, you can change a lot of settings such as window style, cursor style, keyboard shortcuts, etc.
Many of us can’t use the computer without having a mouse. However, using the mouse with the default settings may not work well for all users. For example, the default mouse pointer size is not sufficient for those people with vision problems. This will lead to eye strain, especially when trying to locate the cursor in white background Word documents. Fortunately, both Windows and Mac operating systems allows you to change mouse pointer size.
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Change Mouse Pointer Size in Windows
Login to your Windows computer and press “Win Logo + I shortcut keys. This will open Windows Settings app. Alternatively, you can go to Start menu and click on the gear settings icon to open Windows Settings app. The app will look like below having multiple sections. click on “Ease of Access” to open accessibility settings page.
Go to “Cursor & pointer size” section to change the size of cursor and mouse pointer.
Below are the options you can customize:
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- Change cursor thickness – drag the bar to increase the thickness of the cursor. This will be useful, if you are struggling to locate the cursor in documents.
- Change pointer size – Windows offers three sizes to choose for your pointer. By default smaller size is used and you can choose medium or larger size based on your need.
- Change pointer color – If you notice, Windows by default show the mouse pointer in white color and cursor in black color. Sometimes, this can cause trouble in locating and you can invert the color of the pointer/cursor to improve the visibility. In addition, you can also make the pointer / cursor transparent, so that it will not hide the content behind.
If these options are not enough for your need, you may need to find a third-party app to customize further.
Related:10 tips to use your mouse productively.
Change Mouse Pointer Size in macOS
Similar to Windows computers, you can also change the mouse pointer for better accessibility in Mac. After logging into your Mac, press “Command + ,” shortcut keys. Alternatively, go to “Apple Menu > System Preferences…” to open settings panel.
When you are in “System Preferences” panel, click on “Accessibility” icon to open accessibility settings.
You will see many sections on the sidebar, click on the “Display” option and go to “Cursor” tab.
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Drag the bar against “Cursor size” option to increase or decrease the cursor size as per your need. Unlike Windows, Mac offers seven levels from normal to large for choosing the cursor size.
Changing mouse cursor size in MacOS is very simple, yet not always obvious procedure. Default cursor size satisfies almost every Mac user, but there are people out there who want to increase the system’s interface or cursor because of poor eyesight or simply because they do not like the default cursor. Just a matter of taste, you know…
If you are one of these users and want to increase mouse cursor size on Mac, here is what you need to do. For some reason, Apple hides mouse cursor size slider within the accessibility settings, not inside the mouse/trackpad settings. We won’t focus on why it is there. This article rather shows you how to find mouse cursor size settings in macOS Mojave and how to increase it.
Do note that this instruction applies to macOS 10.14 Mojave and above, plus some previous releases. Apple may change something in the future so this article will be updated accordingly. If you want to increase mouse cursor size on Mac which works on very ancient macOS, a procedure may be a bit different.
- Open System Preferences. This “app” is located inside the Apple menu in the top-left corner of the screen.
- Alternatively, you can open System preferences inside the Launchpad.
- Open Accessibility section.
- Now select Display in the left panel.
- Now adjust the Cursor size slider. A cursor will change its size in the real-time, so no need to restart your Mac.
- Everything is done.
Here is an additional thing to note. Take a look at the Shake mouse pointer to locate. This checkbox (it is enabled by default) allows you to quickly find your lost cursor. If your screen is very big and you can’t find this tiny black pointer, just shake the mouse or trackpad quickly, and Mac will increase mouse cursor size so you can find it easily. Not everyone knows about this nifty trick, but now you do.
Unfortunately, there are not so many cursor settings to customize. In this case, Windows provides much more options and you can check how to increase cursor size on Windows 10 in the separate article.