How to Change Your Cursor’s Color in macOS Monterey

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Bored with that plain ol’ black cursor mousing around on your Mac? With macOS Monterey, you can change the color of your cursor. Here’s how:

° Go to System Preferences and click Accessibility.

° In the left column, under the “Vision” section there’s a Display icon. Click it.

Display Accessibility preferences - display selected — Accessibility > Vision > Display

° Click on the Pointer tab in the top center of the screen.

Display Accessibility preferences - pointer tab — Click the Pointer tab.

Now you can make various adjustments to your cursor/pointer. You can adjust its size via a slider control. And you can click the boxes next to “Pointer outline color” and “pointer fill color” to pick the hues you prefer.

Display Accessibility preferences - change pointer color — Choose your color preference.

If you decide you want to revert back to the default white and black, click the Reset button.

Now close System Preferences and you’re done.

3 Comments

Holly Linton says:

December 17, 2021 at 5:45 pm

Thanks for the tip! I’m going blind so a larger pointer will come in handy and I changed mine to match the color of the room my computer resides in.
Jayme Silvestri says:

December 9, 2021 at 10:18 am

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Joel says:

December 8, 2021 at 8:39 pm

Keep in mind that this pointer change is considered the cause of some of the runaway memory leaks in Monterey. I do not see memory leaks on my 64GB Unified Memory 16″ MBP M1 Max with this pointer color change (which I very much like), while my M1 Mini with 16GB of memory leaks a lot even with the default pointer.