Issues with MacOS 14 Sonoma login page

I am not impaired but for me too, the login screen on Sonoma is a big step backwards. I understand the intention to not interrupt a nice background. But I am not getting to the login screen to watch backgrounds (who does anyway). I need one thing only, and that is to log in. So, logically the login information and input field need to be big and at the center. I do not get that unhealthy fixation on backgrounds anyway (and I AM a designer).

This regressive approach to the login screen is straight up unnecessary. You've taken something functional and made it less so, for spurious reasons, if not purely for eye candy purposes. The only way you can fix it in its current state is to make all of the text shown there much larger, and also the input fields. If not a change offered to all users by default, make it a configuration option.

This feature was apparently added to not allow the text box to "get in the way" of the screen background aesthetics, but Apple should set an option under accessibility (or elsewhere) to allow users to have the login text box in the center. This is an unnecessary change which allows for no functional, usability or performance benefit.

Hopefully, Apple will fix this problem. People with impaired vision will have a problem, no doubt. I did and

I do not have a problem with my vision.

People should have an option to do this and make this change if they wish.

I have to bump +1 on this one. It's fine that Apple brought some piece of magic for Gen Z to the login screen as well, but as a power user, I'd really prefer a stable, static layout with big user avatar pictures, all available actions that Login screen should provide. Please, make it optional & settable.

Apple doesn't care.

There's an aspect of “accessibility“ derived from User interface & User experience design. Which you're probably not really well fond of.

If the Login screen's purpose is silently faded away from this primary purpose to rather provide a cinematic background, date & time (as it it's your phone, what a laptop obviously isn't – you're barely interested in spending any extended time on the Login screen), while the primary purpose is suppressed & users have to seek the functionality, it's definitely a degradation. Big step back.

I'm finding the login bar is much smaller and harder to view (they should have kept it in the middle + large size text) its very hard to see the password character dots.

I totally agree, but Apple seems not to help out us older folks.

This is helpful info for sighted users with full motor control, but it requires both mouse/trackpad use and vision.

It seems it is not possible to TAB between icons any more.

F4 and F7 and F8 will not place keyboard focus on the user-picker nor on the Restart/Shutdown/Sleep icon.

This design decision is hard to fathom. And hiding a pale, but clickable, button icon between three other pale but non-clickable icons is… inexplicable.

Feel free to send Apple feedback.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

Very disappointed with the new login screen. My login emoji used to be animated and had attitude. It was fun to see her react while logging in. Now you can barely see it and its not animated. Very disappointing, you've sucked the fun out of logging in. Please return to original login, or at least allow it as an option.😭