Mac OS: Change folder color - Here's how

If you want to personalize your MacBook with macOS, you can adjust the folder color to your liking. Our instructions show you the individual steps for all current versions of macOS.

Change folder color on Mac OS

Regardless of whether Mac OS Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave or Catalina, in all versions you can change the color of the folders as you like.

1. To do this, select the desired folder on your Mac and right-click on it.
2. Then select the "Information" option in the context menu. Then a small window opens.
3. Click on the folder icon in the top left of the window and copy it with the key combination [cmd] + [C].
4. Now open the "Pages" program and insert the image again with [cmd] + [V].
5. If you click on the image in Pages, you will find several sliders at the top right.
6. This allows you to change a wide variety of settings on the image, so that the color also changes.
7. Copy the color-changed folder again with [cmd] + [C] and paste the image again with [cmd] + [V] in the "Information" window.
8. When you close the window, the color of the folder has changed.

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