how can I enlarge the text on my iMac - home page on top - Finder and all those icons on the right side they are so fucking small

Hello Pik Pro,

Thank you for reaching out in Apple Support Communities. We understand you'd like to adjust the size of text and icons in macOS Big Sur.

It's important to customize your Mac, and we'd like to help.

To adjust the size of the icons in the Dock, you can follow the section in this article that says, "Customize the Dock": Use the Dock on Mac

In addition you can increase the size of the text and more by following these helpful steps: Make it easier to see what’s on the screen of your Mac

Best regards.

Hi Pik Pro,

It looks like you have a 5K iMac with a retina display. This means that you should have some scaling options available to you. To change your scaling, complete the following steps:

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Click on "Displays"
3. Make sure you are on the "Display" tab, not the "Color" tab.
4. Under "Resolution", change it from "Default for display" to "Scaled".
5. You should see a few options here. The one farthest to the right is the smallest option (you likely do not want to switch to this because your menu bar will be even smaller), and the one farthest to the left is the largest. Try to mess with these options and see what works best for you.

The only downside to this method is that other parts of macOS will also be enlarged. If it is too big of a deal, you can always switch back to the default option.

The main thing that you will probably notice with the Big Sur menu bar is that it blends into the background, instead of being a solid color, like in previous version. There seem to be some options online to add a colored bar to the top of your wallpaper to get the effect of the old design back. Here is a link that I found after a quick google search.

Hope this helps!

Big Sur is a big *** when it comes to readability, grey on light grey background, menu bar icons that shrunk and there's 2x the white space above and below them. (other software icons stayed the same, and fill most of the vertical space). I need to find some reading glasses until they fix this mess.

The terrible problem with Big Sur is they for some unknown reason decided to dramatically increase the space above and below menu bar icons, above and below emails, folders, and just about every screen. If they would just go back to the original sized icons, fonts, and line spacing, it would be good again. As it is, it's a complete cluster fuck of a mess, ugly, unreadable, and looks like some 10 year older just placed things on the menu bar. Other app developers have "so far" kept their icons the same size, and they're just as readable (but of course Big Sur spaces them out horizontally, ugh ugh ugh) What a mess of an update, really don't think they're going to go back on this, unless enough people tell the emperor it's ugly and not functional.

I just upgraded to Big Sur from Catalina a couple days ago. I don't mind the user interface changes except that everything appears smaller in terms of text. To the point that I either have to lower resolution and deal with fuzzy bigger text, or get better readers to see smaller text. The top menu bar is so small? I don't understand why? Things like Safari history list is also small text? again why? With my middle age eyes I simply can't use Big Sur, will have to revert back to Catalina.

There is a "Menu bar size" setting in the Display section of Accessibility system preference. "Reduce transparency" (same location) may also help.