How To Change Display Resolutions on Your Mac

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to access the display resolution settings on your Mac. When you add an external display to a macOS system, we show you how to access all of the resolutions available.

[musasoyyo]

YOU SO MUCH, I was going insane, yesterday i Upgraded my 2015 iMac to a 2019 iMac, I've always used a secondary display but with my new iMac the resolution was not correct, thanks to your video I know have my secondary display properly setup.

[AhmedShakil]

Thanks dude, you took a long time to get to the point but saved me hours spent figuring this out. From a Linux user: and they tell me "Mac is so easy to use and intuitive".

[jamespale]

Excellent. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!

[ruekigyuiershjsills]

holy video! you save my life! press the opt and click scale, it finally works with 1080 p

[parkerdawson]

Great video, short and concise. Exactly what I was looking for. I wish I knew what you were eating before this video though. All that mouth swishing and ASMR sounding stuff was wild haha

[DashyDoggo]

Thx I turned my Mac on one day and everything was HUGE this fixed my problem.

[iiauthenticjmc]

I didn’t have gather windows at the bottom of my screen so it only shows me a question mark for the button so I can only see the text size scale. How can I fix this so I can go to the resolution scale?

[vidmannn]

THANKS! Just got a new mac mini M1 and 1280x800 was the highest resolution for my 30" monitor. 2560x1600 now after this video :)

[hippo-potamus]

I wanted to make the resolution on my macbook higher as a way to shrink the desktop icons and apps so that I can see more within the window. However my max available is 1280 x 800 running high sierra non retina. Is there a way to increase this? Or to shink/scale down the whole desktop so I can have a larger working/viewing area? Suposidly my mid2012 mbp should be able to support 2560x1080 but that choice does not show up on the scale options when hold down the options key like you show. Is there a terminal setting command to show this? Thanks.

[jaenethecompassionatebudte]

awesome. short. sweet. effective. Thank you!

[mothballfamicom]

Thanks so much that was bugging me for a while now.

[BorderlessCommerce]

Mine just says larger text, more space....it doesn't say the number like 1080p

[marygrey]

thank you so much my god i was so frustrated but found the solution at 0:54

[lamakinasamba]

THANK YOU! I was close to destroying my computer of anger

[jakubkazmierczyk]

Is it still working? I have 17:9 screen an now i don't have 16:9 resolutions. I has changed about week ago.

[neal.chopra]

Mine doesn't show the different resolutions when I try to hold option and click on scaled. How do I fix?

[DesignPixelmaster]

omg, that option key trick its awesome thaank you man, now i can uninstall switchxres, i needed this to turn off HIDPI resolution to normal classic 2560 x 1440 not that HIDPI sh*t was makes photoshop zoom levels mad. thank you man :)

[lamarcraven]

You are definitely a key cut above the rest, thank you so very much sir for this information.. I just bought a apple M1 air and the words were so tiny and I kept saying damn this is going to hurt my eyes until I think I might have to send this back, and I didn't know how to work a Mac but once I did what you told me it got bigger and that's what I needed ...You were right on time and thank you thank you thank you thank you a hundred times over for your information great content and keep up the good work brother. 💯🎯🔥

[djshelin]

hello sir, by lowering down the resolution of the "secondary display" (not mirror) will my macbook pro early 2015 model perform better?

[ahmetfarukcakmak]

Those are basic settings, could you tell how to improve my external resolution bro. from 1080 to 2560X1080?