Smaller — How To Make Macbook Icons

If you’ve just set up a new MacBook or updated macOS, you might feel like you’re working on a kids’ tablet. Huge grid icons, constant scrolling… it’s not efficient.

: Use the Grid spacing slider to bring the smaller icons closer together, maximizing your screen space. 2. Resizing Dock Icons how to make macbook icons smaller

Adjusting icon sizes on a MacBook is handled in different ways depending on where the icons are located (Desktop, Dock, or within Finder folders). 1. Resizing Desktop Icons To make the icons on your wallpaper smaller: If you’ve just set up a new MacBook

Desktop and Finder windows have separate settings. To shrink icons inside folders: Resizing Desktop Icons To make the icons on

: Right-click (or Control-click) any empty space on your desktop and select Show View Options .

If you really want maximum information density, skip icon view entirely: