How to Change the Red Text of Delete Button on Mac

In this guide, we will show you the steps to change the red text of the Delete button on your Mac. I have a knack for jotting down important points in the Notes app and then saving or deleting the file accordingly. However, whenever the Save As dialog box came, I noticed something really weird, especially from the UI/UX point of view. The Delete button is written in red color on top of the grey background, thereby making it extremely difficult to read.

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To reproduce this issue, just open a new text document [RTF file], write a few characters, and hit the Command+W shortcut keys. You’ll be greeted with the Do you want to keep this new document “file_name”? dialog box. At the bottom left will be the delete button with the readability issue that we have just described above. SO all this begs an important question- is there a fix? Yes, there is one and in this guide, we will make you aware of just that. So without further ado, let’s check it out.

How to Change the Red Text of Delete Button on Mac

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To get this job done, you’ll have to enable the “Differentiate without color” feature, as explained below. This feature, according to Apple , uses shapes, in addition to or instead of colour, to convey status or information.

  1. Launch System Settings and head over to Accessibility.
  2. Now go to Display and enable Differentiate without color.
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