Issues with MacOS 14 Sonoma login page

You can find Restart and Shut Down in a new menu in the upper-right corner of the login window.

As far as I can tell, the password entry field hasn't changed size. The user name is a little bit smaller and in a different font, though I myself wouldn't describe it as significantly more difficult to read. But of course the user picture is significantly smaller. Probably the idea is to give pride of place to the cool new screen savers. Some suggestions:

• The smaller user pictures may be more difficult to tell apart in their details, but they don't seem so small as to prevent relying on easier-to-see differences. For example, one user picture could be more blue, another more red; one lighter, the other darker. I'm just spitballing here.
• The built-in accessibility features of Sonoma can help at the login screen. For example, I've turned on the Zoom feature in Accessibility settings that allows me to use a scroll gesture with a modifier key to zoom. With that feature, I can press the Control key while scrolling to make the login picture as big as my entire screen if I want to.

Dear friends

If you want to fix that issue , you just need to activate filevault on the Account. The account login logo will appear in the centre like before.

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.

The removal of sleep/lock/halt button from the login/lock screen was a really bad decision and needs to be undone. Very customer unfriendly changed for no logical reason. makes using using bootcamp a pain the butt because i have to login to the mac to reboot into windows.

i filed a complain at at https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/

Feel free to send Apple feedback.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

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.

Tim's Tree wrote:

It was already turned on. I still don't see it. If anybody can, please let me know. I have clicked every little area around it and nothing happens.

If it's any consolation, It's not there on my M1 MacBook Air or my iMac Pro.

I'm not visually impaired but I do wear glasses for short sightedness, and I found it an issue to see the new login box and choosing the avatars for the different profiles. Your new UI is not an improvement. Wish I hadn't updated! Please address this in version release. Have you got any accessibility designers to QA this before releasing??

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.