Issues with MacOS 14 Sonoma login page

Please, to all the Apple people who wear glasses and have vision problems. Please tell Apple to address this issue. A user option would be the best way to go about this. If you like the small avatar, fine, but give the poor vision people an option to change it to a larger avatar.

The whole design is the worst. Huge time in the center top, and teensy weensy login and avatars at the bottom. Why screw around with something that worked and replace it with something awful and NOT accessible!

I am sorry but you are wrong. Bother are smaller, and I have completely turned off that huge clock which makes the page almost comical. And very ugly. And having the avatar and input field so small and at the bottom makes the page extremely ugly as well as totally inaccessible. And Apple always had prided themselves early on in the games as being very accessible friendly. I hope that this page is redesigned very soon. It bothers me a lot to have to experience it at every login.

Wrong. It HAS changed the size. From UX it does not make a sense - this screen is to login, not to view pictures and time. Hence, the login elements should be best accessible and easy to use. Now they are not.

Terrible, terrible work from Apple and total turn away from their original mission for great user experience.

hate it too. There used to be a home screen with my profile pic and place to log in and profile pic and place to log in for husband. Once I logged in my Home Screen would show. Now when I log out it doesn't go back to home page. My wallpaper still shows and at bottom like you said is my icon and if I hover over it my husband's icon appears for log in option. If he logs in and out then his wallpaper stays there until next time one of us logs in. Annoying. Why do they have to change this insignificant crap? To annoy us? Also I can't get screen save to show. All there is after a while is a black screen. So much for the rolling hills screen saver. Not happy.

I have that option turned on and there is nothing in the upper right but wifi, battery, and language. Only language expands into a menu. What is the Sleep, Restart, Shut Down option supposed to look like?

So I figured this out on my Mac Mini. The Lock Screen will always go black after a few seconds, but if you don’t lock it and let it automatically go in to screen saver mode it will stay on for however long you choose in your settings. Lock Screen is just that, it locks and shuts it down. Now I have my screensaver turn on after three minutes of inactivity and it remains on for three hours. It also prompts for a password as soon as it goes to screensaver mode, which I wanted.

I agree I hate it. Home screen now is the wallpaper for whatever user logs off. Also, I am having problem whereby the cursor is invisible except on task bar at bottom when I try to move it up to box in middle screen to log off. I have to move the box to top of screen and then the blue log off button turns white then bring it back to middle screen and then cursor lets me click on it. They need to undo this update and correct it.

I have mine set to show in Lock Screen as well. It is not working. It is not in the right hand corner either. Hope they fix this and the small sign on buttons soon! Not a good update for people that don’t wear glasses either .Its not easy to maneuver on the screen anymore.

I installed the Sonoma 14.0 update also. Here is what is weird. After hitting restart, the screen saver comes up with the normally sized "large" login icons that were on Ventura. Of course, if you log in from there and then log out, the tiny login icons appear again. I don't plan to restart every time, but maybe there is a clue here for developers. Looking forward to getting the large login page again!

I also dislike the new login screen of Sonoma because the picture and password window are almost invisible for older people. Since there is a significant space available in the middle of the screen, and I enjoyed the smile of Me-Moji on Ventura, I have been searching for a way to adjust the size. Unfortunately, there are no adjustment options available.

I figured out one of the issues I’m having with the login screen.

I have a personal account and a work account. Both have my index fingerprint assigned to them. In the past, before Sonoma, there was no problem recognizing which account I wanted, using the same finger, as long as I correct chose the account. Now, under Sonoma, it would constantly log me back into the previous account even if I physically chose the other. So, I have had to add a new finger (the middle) to my work account, and delete the index finger from that account in order to go back to a smooth transition between accounts. A bit silly.

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/

It's a tiny tiny dropdown menu in the upper right hand corner. Totally non-intuitive, as is having to use the escape key to be able to see the other users to change user. Clearly nobody actually uses this in a computer mode.

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