after upgrading to Ventura 13.1 external display resolution menu has only default resolution (too small) and low resolution options

I have been suffering with this issue since updating to Ventura 13.1 and was hoping it would be resolved in the Ventura 13.2 update, but sadly nothing was fixed and it is still happening in 13.2. It is surprising that a company that prides itself in caring about accessibility would release two software updates that prevent users with external displays from enlarging font size at all.

I made a similar new post regarding missing not fixed scaling options for external monitors and my post was deleted by the admins :D apple censoring people frustration of them selfs being incapable to fix the big issue. Shame on them im back on windows 11.

This is a nightmare. I just updated to Ventura 13.1 and can barely read text on my monitor. You have single handedly lost me a day of productive work and then some. Shame on you #Apple for not fixing this bug. After 15 years as a devoted apple user, this may lead me back to a PC

This fix is bull......t. In my case I have HiDPI resolutions offered that start half of the original resolution and go down, even if I pick the highest HiDPI everything on the screen is way too big it makes everything 50% bigger what is too much while you need 15-25% scale so this is crap crap crap not a solution.

Yeah, i hear your frustration and I know that this will not be a fix for everyone.

Apple, does need to address this issue and quite frankly I'm not sure why they haven't fixed this bug.

We are already on 13.2 and surprised to not see a fix on their end yet.

Nothing has worked for you you are just using a lower resolution to your default one its not the same then you use your default and scale text or object where you get sharp clear and nice picture. Im my case mu default resolution is 3440x1440 so the best HiDPI i use is 1720x720(HiDPI) its a half or default I should get min of 80% to get it working. Then you lowering your resolution it degrades your picture performance.

My picture performance was always very good even if I resized the resolution and certainly did not see grainy text and icons like this bug that many users have.

After upgrading to ventura, I had all resolutions as 'low resolution options' except the default one. All the text and icons were grainy and looked bad.

Now I see everything perfectly as before I upgraded to Ventura.

The author of the post "szubov" had exactly the same problem as me.

I found a solution to the problem that worked for me.

Even before I upgraded to Ventura I never used the default resolution because it was too small for me and all the text and icons showed perfectly.

The problem here is that after upgrading to Ventura all resolutions became "low resolution option" except the default one (which is too small for some users).

As you say , even before upgrade you didn't use your default resolution as it was to high, object within a screen were to small, this is why you should have scaling option what makes certain object and text at you max default resolution bigger with no loosing picture performance, no need to lower resolution and it doesn't harm your eyes. Play around with a scaling option on your main default pc screen and you will get what I'm talking about.

As per your description you were missing certain number of available resolutions to choose, I'm escalating scaling problems on external screens.

Not sure how do get this fixed but after install of 13.3 still no scaling option still the same problem for external monitors. Maybe we are talking about different things here I'm not sure, the original post is about scaling missing scaling not missing resolutions. I always had plenty of resolutions to choose but no scaling options for high resolution screens. Only HiDPI options where the best option id half of original resolution and makes everything way to beg on the screen. If you go for just smaller resolution screen gets shady , blurry, not nice looking text. Thats why we need scaling options as internal screen has to make text be and some objects to be eye friendly on high resolution screens.

Im full of it gave a try to MAC now selling it returning back to Windows

It seems the scaling issue is fixed for a MacBook Pro 2019 model using an external Dell U3818DW display in the 13.3 update. Also a nice bonus seems to be a significant performance boost ... Maybe there is still hope for Apple :-) ... Maybe someday they will fix the anti-aliasing issue as well because I never understood why, on the same monitor, Windows 10 is able to render an ultra sharp GUI, and Os X needs to apply some anti-aliasing / a slight blur effect ...

Same issue since upgrading to Ventura 13.1. No scaling on external LG monitor any more.

Same on my side, I have two external 4k monitors. I can't set up both of them as 3840 x 2160 pixels as more spaces. When I tried to change the resolution, my mac crashed and restarts again.

Same on my side, I re-installed macOS but it doesn't work too.

I did the same, ALL for nothing. It didn't change anything for me either. I hope they come up with an upgrade that brings back the 'resolution scale setting'