You find Mouse Properties dialog and you can use the Pointer tab to change your mouse pointer to Windows Black. BTW, when I am using VS Code directly on my Mac, the mouse pointer is somehow visible. But on MS Windows, it is (or was) much worse. Without a cursor, your Mac would be pretty hard to use. In fact, it would be all but impossible to use, save for a few keyboard shortcuts. The cursor is what makes it so easy to navigate around. Mac allows easy changing the mouse cursor size and color. Though, you can only change the contrast, grayscale, transparency, and inverting screen color so that the cursor becomes more noticeable rather than changing cursor's color. But you can change cursor size. Mac allows you select a cursor size that suits you the best.
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.
Change Mouse Color Mac
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.
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“I’m just going to make that edit here.”
“Do you see my mouse?”
These are just a few examples of comments you’ll hear during online meetings with screensharing during this new work-from-home era. While sharing or collaborating on documents during online meetings, it can be hard for people to follow along with the tiny, standard mouse pointer/cursor defaults on our Macs and PCs. We could all do each other a little favor by making the mouse pointer bigger and/or more colorful – a high visibility pointer will help your audience follow along without losing the mouse.
You can easily change your mouse from the default to something more noticeable. Here’s how:
Customize Your Mouse on Windows 10
Search for and click on “Mouse settings” on your computer via the Start button or the Search bar in your taskbar.
- In the Window that follows click on “Adjust mouse & cursor size” in the right-side column.
- The next window will offer options for changing the pointer size and color. Set to your liking!
Customize Your Mouse Pointer Size on a Mac
- Go to System Preferences
- Click Accessibility > Display
- Then click Cursor.
- Drag the slider to increase or decrease the size of the pointer.
(No options for changing the color of the pointer on Macs, sorry!)
Change Cursor Size Mac
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