How to Disable Safari Color Tinting on MacOS Tahoe
The latest versions of Safari use an aggressive tinting feature by default that changes the color the Safari window and titlebars to whatever color is detected on the top of a particular webpage. This can cause some visually jarring experiences when browsing the web with Safari on the Mac, and if the colorful windows and titlebar experience is not something you like, you’ll be happy to know that you can turn the Safari color tinting feature off on the Mac.
Even if you had previously disabled this feature, if you recently updated to macOS Tahoe, you will likely find that Safari has enabled this feature again anyway.
How to Turn Off Color Tinting in Safari for Mac
Tired of the garish color changing of the window titlebars in Safari for Mac? Here’s how to disable that:
- From Safari, pull down the ‘Safari’ menu and choose “Settings”
- Go to “Tabs”
- Uncheck the box for “Show color in tab bar” to disable color tinting in Safari on Mac
- Close out of Settings, the change takes effect immediately
Compare that to this kind of experience shown below, which is varying degrees of bad depending on what the color of a particular website is.
This feature exists for Safari on iPhone and iPad too and can also be disabled there.
Color tinting in the Safari titlebars and window bars is not a new feature, but even if you had it disabled on prior versions of Safari in MacOS, if you recently updated to macOS Tahoe you will likely find this feature has enabled itself again automatically, and thus you need to disable it again.
