Changing Contacts background colour on MacBook Pro running Tahoe 26.0.1

I found the solution. In Accessibility, select Display. Click Reduce Transparency. The text becomes black.

FACT_ERP_Solutions wrote:

1. Feedback given to Apple today

2. How do I copy/paste my 12,000 Contacts at one go to see Black Text & White Background?

There are many short comings to the new Contacts.app interface...as well as complaints here.

You can try an alternative to make it easier on yourself. The Contacts.app — has become cumbersome under Tahoe.

You can try some third party alternative.

ex. BusyContacts https://apps.apple.com/us/app/busycontacts/id964258399?mt=12

To have Apple consider your feedback, submit it here:

Feedback - macOS - Apple

In the meantime as Barney-15E suggests, copy the info then use the Paste and Match Style/Formatting command (Edit menu or Command-Shift-Option-V) in the destination app.

1. I just want to get rid of the Blue background colour in Contacts

2. Maybe I misunderstood what you posted

What does that have to do with copy/paste every contact?

The background color changes with the choice of picture for the contact. However, none of them are good. With dark mode enabled and no contact picture, it is a tolerable black with gray text.

This is the issue - someone (cleverly?) thought to make the background color dynamic, based on the image you use, without regard to the title text color. A proposed solution to paste in the header with styling is way too cumbersome as you'd have to adjust that for each contact based on their image, and if the image updated for some reason, you'd have to do it again. The solution is to create a app preference for no background (setting background to dark/lite preference and reverse the type color).

As an example, I added a white "logo". This is what it does, and how badly it fails accessibilty. This conflicts with the DOJ's ruling on accessibilty. Currently, there is no OS fix for this, making Apple liable. Switching reduce transparency on does not impact the title color, causing it to still fail. The ADA/DOJ didn't intend for the fix for these sorts of things to be "the user should copy a title with a certain color and paste it in with styles maintained." Happy to be corrected if there's a fix for this. Will be looking at non-Apple solutions, but that plus migrating witll take time.

Thx for posting this. Does apple ever reply to post on this community ? why hasn't there been a reply?

The Terms of Use specifically states that they do not participate here. It’s a user to user support forum.

You can send feedback which they claim to read. Product Feedback - Apple

That's why I'm always in dark mode.

Feel free to send Apple feedback.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

It's much easier to see on my Macs.

None the less, send Apple feedback.

FACT_ERP_Solutions wrote:

1. Feedback given to Apple today

2. How do I copy/paste my 12,000 Contacts at one go to see Black Text & White Background?

I just used Cmd-A to select all, copied, and pasted into a text editor. Not particularly useful, though.

What are you trying to accomplish? What are you going to use the copied contacts to do? In what format?

To be clear, after you copy the contact info go where you want to paste it and use this option:

If you are in a document with black text on a white background, the pasted information will match that formatting.,

I noticed that it did affect some of the other apps that I checked. However, it was very simple to just click the button to change the setting back. I clicked it on and off a couple of times on my iPhone and iPad too, just to see what happens. ;-)

After discovering how to change the text to a readable black color, I felt that it was no longer necessary to change the Fill in Colour to white. I'm happy that the Contacts no longer give me a headache. I'm glad that it is much better for you, too. :-)

Apple doesn't care about accessibility - they expect you to turn on accessibilty features OS wide and destory the look entirely. Heck, their text bubble colors on the iPhone and in MacOS Messages fails the WCAG 2.2 accessibility contrast guideline. And they've made that such a huge part of their messaging 'branding' (who knows why since it's inaccessible) they will likely never change it.

But Ive is worth Billions now, and Apple has a market cap of 4 Trillion, so *inaccessible shrug emoji here*