Apple’s design language, introduced in macOS Big Sur, includes transparent menus and tinted windows that show off a bit of the background color. Do you find this annoying? Here’s how to turn off background colors in Windows on Mac.
As design decisions go, coloring wallpaper is a weird one. Transparent menus and sidebars are easy to understand. They show the color of what is under the window.
But wallpaper shades take over the color of the wallpaper regardless of whether there are other windows below. Not only is it shocking depending on the wallpaper, but the tinted windows can make things more difficult to read.
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Check out the screenshot below to see the big difference. In the left half of the screen, the window tinting function is turned on, but not in the right half.
You can turn off the window coloring feature in System Preferences. Click on the “Apple” icon in the menu bar and choose the “System Preferences” option.
Go to the “General” menu here.
Now click on the check mark next to the option “Allow background colors in Windows” to disable the feature.
The subtle background color effect in windows now disappears and things are as they were again!
Another annoying part of using Big Sur is the transparent menu bars and sidebars. Here’s how to turn off the transparency effect.
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