iTunes 12.3.3 fonts size are now way too BIG!

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Given that this is a wide spread problem, I would submit that users are the best judge of optimal font sizes, not Apple "designers".

What are the odds Apple fixes this any time soon?

Sorry - didn't mean to post this to you - meant to post to the whole thread.

Google Chrome as of version 54 also overrides the "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" option but has a command line switch to change the dpi setting for the application itself.

I can disable the scaling by running "chrome.exe /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1". WHY doesn't iTunes has the same kind of switch? Or does it?

Apple, PLEASE pay attention to all these customers.

Nope. Installed it earlier this evening and the UI is still messed up. I've looked around a bit and I can't find anything that outlines what 12.5.2 does fix.

No such luck. If anything, it's worse.

Dear all,

I have just played with my DPI settings, and with Win 8.1 it is true, with 125% the iTunes shop doesn't work with my full HD resolution screen on my notebook. However, it is possible to change this manually to 126% or something in between 126 and 130%. This doesn't change too much on my desktop setting, font size etc, but it will force iTunes to change the size of the system font, now it is a bit larger but more blurry and most importantly, the shop is OK.

Exploring this I also found a TextStyles.plist file in all language settings which can be changed, e.g. one could go from Segoui UI System font to Verdana or something else, also the size can be changed, but doing this, iTunes ignored my modified settings. Does anybody know how to get this changed ? I guess from this plist something has to be written in a general settings file, but I haven't found this ?! Any ideas ??

Best Andreas

Thanks for that... IT WORKS

I have tested you suggestion with 128DPI or 120Dpi same problem on windows 7.

With Jobs this ridiculous problem would not last years like now, or it would be solved fast or someone would be fired.

It's gone beyond ridiculous with the latest "update." Not only are the fonts too large to see the content, but if I place my cursor on a song I want to hear, a song a couple rows below plays. If I didn't have to have iTunes on my system for backup purposes, I'd delete it as it's a worthless piece of garbage.

I was also having this problem of not seeing the full Apple iTunes page. When set at 100% for screen display I could see it perfectly and the whole page. This is using two separate computers my desktop on my home office using a 32 inch monitor and another desktop that I have attached to my 46 inch TV that I use to view the films. I am one of these old school guys that actually likes to own the hard copy of the film and put it on a hard drive. I understand the convenience of the cloud but when I am checked in a hotel I don’t want to use the hotel WiFi (untrusted
source to me) to get my movies off the cloud. So I also have a laptop with an external hard drive containing my films
which I hook up to the hotel TV when I travel on business. Hotel televisions are rather nice now. The hotels that I stay at have been those flat screen monitors in the 40 inch plus range.

That being said, the issue with the Word, Excel, Outlook and Windows Explorer having the font too small to read is the issue everyone seems to complain about. I am using Office 2010 and Windows 7 Pro. I will resist to the end before moving to Office 365 and Windows 10 because I don’t need my screens to look like a poor version of Apps for a computer application on the screen...and I don’t have a touch screen anyway. I have tried them and don’t like it because it seems every button wants to lead you to a MS store to buy stuff or they want you to slam your files to the cloud which I don’t really trust.

But there are solutions for making the words (verbiage) look bigger in those applications without having to change the Display. Besides that when you change the display settings it moves your icons location which I hate. For the two most common programs, Window explorer and Outlook here are the solutions to change the view fonts and sizes
to make them more readable while using the 100% display which makes iTunes more usable and readable.

For Windows explorer you can change the font and size by doing the following;

Control Panel – Appearance and Personalization – at Personalization pick Change windows glass colors – at the bottom of that menu pick Advance appearance settings… and get a Window Color and Appearance pop up
menu. Go to Item and it pops up a menu and pick Icon. The font and size selection bar below it lights up and pick the size and font you want to use. I like Arial and size 11. Anything larger is too big. Then close out everything. You will notice the file folder fonts, the fonts for the Icons on the display screen and fonts on the start menu are
larger and easier to read. The items in your favorites bar have larger fonts too.

For Outlook 2010 you can change the font and size of the roll log of messages in this manner.

Right Click on Header Bar (From-Subject-Date received etc.) and get a Advanced View Settings Compact pop up menu. Choose – Other Settings. From there you can pick font and size for Column Font, Row Font and AutoPreview font. This will change the font size of the message log to make it readable.

But the folders fonts are too small to read in Outlook 2010 to read. At the bottom of the page, right click on Mail and select Navigation Pane. In the Navigation Pane Options pop up window pick Folder list and the
click on the Font button. From there you can pick the Font, Font Style and Size you want.

Every application in MS has an individual method to change font and font size. Ask the question in
YouTube and there are lots of Videos for these solutions.

Or apple could just fix it. Seems a little better solution then customizing every app so that we can buy music from Apple. This is what Amazon is for.

works perfect with 126%. Thanks Andreas!