MacBook provides a lot of great accessibility features just like the iPhone and iPad. If you want to have your Mac screen in black and white, you can easily get it. The built-in grayscale mode in Mac lets the user have a black and white screen just like color-less computers from an early age.
This mode is of great benefit, especially if you have poor or impaired vision. You won’t be distracted by the colors shown on the screen and can thus focus more. The Grayscale mode when impaired with macOS Mojave’s dark mode looks majestic.
In this guide, you will learn how to enable grayscale on your Mac.
Enabling Grayscale mode on Mac running macOS Catalina
Follow the steps mentioned below to have a black and white Mac screen:
- Click the Apple button given on the menu bar and select “System Preferences” from the list of options.
- Click on “Accessibility” from the “System Preferences” window.
- Next click on “Display” given in the left panel.
- Click on the “Color Filters” tab if you are running macOS Catalina or a newer version.
- Now select the “Grayscale” option from the “Filter Type” drop-down menu.
- Select the check-box next to “Enable Color Filters” to enable it.
Your Mac will now have a black and white screen.
Enabling Grayscale mode on Mac running macOS Mojave or earlier
The procedure to enable grayscale mode on Mac running the older Operating System Software is slightly different from the ones running MacOS Catalina or newer software. Learn how to enable Grayscale mode on Mac running older operating system soft wares:
- Click the Apple button given on the menu bar and select “System Preferences” from the list of options.
- Click on “Accessibility” from the “System Preferences” window.
- Next click on “Display” given in the left panel.
- Now select the checkbox given next to the “Use greyscale” option in the Display menu to enable Greyscale mode on Mac.
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