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Tweak your Mac cursor

Make the color and size suit your style and needs.

Lewis Wallace
April 10, 2024

Today’s how-to shows you how to change the size and color of your Mac’s cursor.

I might be the ideal target for this tip — my computer monitor is gigantic and my eyes are questionable at best. But even if you’re not squinting as you try to locate your Mac’s pointer, it can be fun to tweak the cursor’s color.

You could go with your favorite sports team’s colors, or something that matches your Mac’s desktop, or even the color scheme of your setup, if you’ve taken things that far in the aesthetics department.

Once you know where to find the settings, it’s easy to make the changes. And, of course, nothing’s permanent, so you can tweak to your heart’s content and revert if you don’t like the results.

I went with a slightly larger cursor, with a red fill and a black outline. It’s kinda weird and diabolical-looking, but I like it! And I’m definitely not spending as long staring at my screen trying to locate my cursor as I did before. (The how-to’s bonus “shake mouse pointer to locate” tip is also a must if you struggle to find your cursor.)

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— Lewis Wallace, managing editor

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Tweetz o’ the day

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Midjourney
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One more thing ...

❝

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter into one of the most creative periods of my life.

— Steve Jobs, 2005.

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