Dark Mode white Menubar

[alexbzzz]

My wallpaper is light and it’s making the menubar bright white among the all black dark mode. How to darken it?

 

[alexbzzz]

Anybody else has this problem?

 

[iStorm]

I think you have a couple options. Either turn on "Reduce transparency" in Accessibility, or edit the wallpaper to be dark at the top.

 

[alexbzzz]

I edited the brightness curve of the whole photo and it’s fine now but there should be an option in macos to darken the menu bar as well..
Thanks!

 

[iStorm]

I agree. Right now "Reduce transparency" is the only way to do that, but it'd be nice if there was a way to only do it for the menu bar and not everything else.

 

[Ron21]

i just noticed it when my dynamic wallpaper switched. There is no option to disable this i'm assuming?

 

[zorinlynx]

Wait, how did you manage to get a white menubar? This is what I want; for me it's dark whether in light or dark mode.

 

[alexbzzz]

Wait, how did you manage to get a white menubar? This is what I want; for me it's dark whether in light or dark mode.

If your background photo is above some average level of brightness it seems you get a white menubar. I darkened my photo and the menubar turned dark as well

 

[zorinlynx]

If your background photo is above some average level of brightness it seems you get a white menubar. I darkened my photo and the menubar turned dark as well

Ugh. Is there a "defaults write" that can override this? I want my menubar to always be white if the system is in light mode, but I like darker desktop backgrounds.

 

[alexbzzz]

Ugh. Is there a "defaults write" that can override this? I want my menubar to always be white if the system is in light mode, but I like darker desktop backgrounds.

Yes I also think it’s stupid, someone please let us know how to fix this!

 

[etkuo]

Anybody else has this problem?

Noticed the same problem after updating to Big Sur last night, and eventually traced down to the light background color of my Desktop picture as well.

 

[nmeed]

They increased transparency like crazy. Unless there’s a command to lower it, we are SOL.

 

[Jack Neill]

It took until 10.5.2 for there to be a check box to turn off the stupid transparency in the menu bar. I hope we don't have to wait for 11.2.

 

[nmeed]

It took until 10.5.2 for there to be a check box to turn off the stupid transparency in the menu bar. I hope we don't have to wait for 11.2.

Interesting, I didn’t even know that was a thing. Evidently these check boxes just add one of those “default” command lines. We just need to figure out what that line was and it’ll probably work for Big Sur.