Issues with MacOS 14 Sonoma login page

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??

Seems like nobody actually uses these before making these kinds of changes. Time would be better spent on fixing apps like Itunes/Music and Mail. Tiny font, hiding sleep/restart/shutdown buttons in a tiny menu upper right. I'd say that's not how I was trained in UI/UX guidelines as an Apple developer, but then I'd probably get my post taken down again like this:

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 agree too. It is smaller, but the biggest issue for me is the positioning, why would you move the login box to the bottom of the screen instead of a more prominent position (which is where is was before)?! And hide the sleep, shutdown etc buttons?! It's a totally inaccessible design.

I absolutely HATE the new login screen for Sonoma as well. Every single time I need to switch between users I have to manually move the cursor over the user I want to switch to, which was not what it used to be like. I used to just select from the user menu at the top of the screen, use my fingerprint and done. There's a whole extra (pointless) step. Not to mention they moved all the Shut Down, Sleep, and Restart buttons to the upper right hand side. UGH!

Okay. I figured out what's going on. The icon for the menu only appears when you log out, not on the Lock Screen.

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.

I also have this problem, and am partially visually impaired. My wife has a similar problem. Please allow users to move the login screen back to the center, and bump up the size of the text! Now!

I've restarted a few times already (for other reasons) and I've never seen anything but those two items there. Thanks for sharing what it looks like—there is clearly nothing on my screen that looks like a power button.

Not on my screen... No menu. No buttons.

I liked my big avatar and login area. My 3 yo loved to play and greet the memoji. Not anymore. Apple, you disappointed me and my baby! Why these totally unwanted and unnecessary changes?? You f...ed your customers again. Shame.