I would love to see an app that made this process a little less painful. Those using high resolution monitors who want to make sure they are using all that screen real estate need to make sure the monitor is set to its native resolution in the Displays control panel, and then adjust the size of the Dock and the Finder icons to something usable. I cannot understand why UI scaling is still not available in MacOS, especially at a time when all sorts of display sizes and resolutions are becoming common, but this is where we stand as of January, 2019. UI scaling was not available in MacOS El Capitan, and it has not been available in any version of MacOS. If you are using a high resolution screen with a laptop, you will have to readjust the Dock and Finder icons when the monitor is disconnected, then set them again when you are back using the monitor. There is no way to modify the Menubar text size. UI scaling was not available in MacOS El Capitan, and it has not been available in any version of MacOS. Kevin Grabher's earlier reply is correct and remains correct, even under Mojave. As in El Capitan, it just changes the resolution of the monitor. The Display settings panels from El Capitan and High Sierra do appear to mean different things, but adjusting the scaling setting in High Sierra does not changing the UI scaling. The answers from Amida and Ornataweaver are incorrect and should perhaps be removed to avoid confusion around this issue.
MAC DUAL MONITORS I WANT DIFFERENT SCALING WINDOWS
So my question is: Why isn't the scaled option always available when using an external monitor with Mac?īy the way, the equivalent option in Windows is to change the DPI settings, which causes all elements to look bigger and sharp and it works on all displays:
MAC DUAL MONITORS I WANT DIFFERENT SCALING MAC
However, in my opinion the default UI size of the Mac is a bit too small on a typical 27" 2K screen so I would like to scale all UI elements bigger (I mean all, not just fonts) as it is possible to do using the internal monitor.Īccording to some screenshots that I found, the scaled menu is available at least for this 4K monitor:
I don't want to change the resolution of my external monitor since I always want to use the native resolution of the monitor to achieve maximum sharpness. The Display settings menu looks somewhat like this: However, when I connect my Macbook to a 2K monitor, the Scaled option is not available, I can only set the resolution. The best thing here is the Scaled option, which means that I can use the native resolution of the screen and rescale all UI elements bigger or smaller depending on my taste and they still look very sharp. When I use my Macbook Pro's internal monitor, I have the following options in the Display settings menu: