Have you tried System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Reduce Transparency
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That disables all transparency. @Watabou wants to disable just for the menu bar.
In good news, I can confirm that the Yosemite-style dark mode (just the Dock and the Menu Bar) still works in Big Sur through a terminal command:
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defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool YesThis makes the "too-much-white" fell much less noticeable.
I hope they don't start offering toggles for every UI element, it just gets ridiculous at a certain point. If you hate transparency or have an accessibility need then turn it off. If not, then just suck it up. Not everyone is gonna like every change. Personally I hate the bigger UI elements like the tool bars and lock screen, but it is what it is.
How to revert back, I tried setting the -bool to false/no but not working, The menu bar is not blending with the default wallpaper like before
just replace Yes with No. Log-out and log-in again, that should make it turn to normal.
It failed, this works defaults delete -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance
Why? The toggles in Big Sur are actually extremely flexible, and because of the new Menu Bar/Control Center options, you can change the visibility of them however you like.
As a graphic design, I was absolutely delighted that Apple finally made a convenient way for me to toggle Dark Mode, True Tone and Night Shift all from one pane.
I think you misunderstood what @thingstoponder was saying.
Means they hope Apple don't offer a toggle to turn off/on every UI setting, like the transparency, window-tinting or animation setting in system preferences, not in the Menu Bar/Control Center. Similar to how macOS doesn't have an option to move the traffic light buttons (close/minimise/fullscreen) from the left to the right of a window.
Or I misunderstood 🤷♂️
Correct!
As for Control Center, I think its long overdue. I also think the menu bar customization is one of the best innovations to the Mac experience in a while. It's something that once you use you wonder why it wasn't available five years ago.
Not joking. Some of those are some serious Boomer Win 95 styles.
Apple have released some new safari background images this beta. They all look terrible.
Can you share screenshots of those?
Here you go. 🤦♂️🤮
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Is this new? News app in Big Sur now supports multiple windows and tabs! Unless that was already there before and I just didn’t know about it.
I think they’re pretty fun! At the end of the day it’s the user’s choice whether they opt for one of these.
I'll just have to delete those like I usually do with Desktop Wallpapers even though they have been moved to the System Library folder, 1+GB is a lot of wasted space for a 128GB mac
I noticed that mds is eating her young. That would probably do it.
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com.apple.mdworker.shared.0A000000-0300-0000-0000-000000000000[1577]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[96]
com.apple.mdworker.shared.0B000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000[1578]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[96]
com.apple.mdworker.shared.07000000-0400-0000-0000-000000000000[1587]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[96]
com.apple.mdworker.shared.07000000-0500-0000-0000-000000000000[1594]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[96]
That's not new... it's been in there since Catalina shipped, though it's called "Drift" in Catalina.