How to change Messages side panel from icons to list?

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tmcdanel Author

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How to change Messages side panel from icons to list?

MacBook Air M2 with Big Sur

My wife wants her Messages on her Macbook to look like her iPhone. The side panel switched to icons:

She wants it to look like this:

To my surprise, there is no hint of controlling this in Messages>Preferences.

Is the problem Big Sur?

Can i change it to a list?

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Jan 21, 2022 4:47 PM

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Barney-15E

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Jan 22, 2022 2:47 AM in response to tmcdanel

It looks like she is searching Photos found in attachments.

Any idea how it got that way?

If you ctrl-click on a conversation in the sidebar and click Details, you can kind of get that view, but clicking outside of it will remove the Details.

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How to change Messages side panel from icons to list?

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