Timeline for UI Scaling vs. Screen Resolution on Secondary Monitor
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| Mar 10, 2023 at 7:45 | comment | added | benwiggy | @MatthewLayton That's exactly what I said: The OS scales the display to "map" to those resolutions, which in effect scales the size of the interface. The same thing will happen on your 3440 display; it's just that it might look blurry, because of the lower pixel density. | |
| Mar 10, 2023 at 6:47 | comment | added | Matthew Layton | "The interface controls that Apple shows you for your built-in display, with "Larger Text" / "More Space", is just a simplified version of the list of resolutions." - Is this entirely correct? On a 4K display, if I hover over the largest size it displays 1920x1080, but it's not actually setting the resolution to 1920x1080; rather, it's scaling the UI to 200%, effectively a 2:1 pixel ratio, which is how retina displays achieve such sharp images, so I wonder if a 3440x1440 display simply doesn't have the pixel density for UI scaling? | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 13:21 | history | edited | benwiggy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 9, 2023 at 13:04 | history | answered | benwiggy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |