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macOS Monterey and macOS Big Sur introduced a new style of macOS alert dialogs that are more similar to what you’ll see on iOS than macOS. The new macOS alert dialog style keeps everything focused with the app icon at the top and warning messages at the bottom, while the old traditional macOS alert dialog style always showed the icon at the far left with a warning. information to the right of that.

If you want to go back to the old traditional style of macOS dialogs and alerts, you can do so with the default write command.

How to change the macOS alert dialog style to the old design

Open the Terminal app to get started, then enter the following command line:

defaults write -g NSAlertMetricsGatheringEnabled -bool false

Click “Return”.

You’ll want to restart your Mac for every app, Finder, and entire system to be aware of the change (you can also log out and log back in, but periodically restarting your Mac is not a bad idea anyway for people like me who restart several times a year. only when installing system updates).

Now your alert dialogs on Mac will look like the old classic style instead of the new design style.

Mac warning dialog old style

How to revert macOS alert dialog style to modern default

If you want to revert the change and bring back the modern style of the alert dialog in macOS Monterey and Big Sur or later, return to the Terminal and enter the following command:

defaults delete -g NSAlertMetricsGatheringEnabled

Restart your Mac again, or log out and log back in to restore the new default style.

New Mac Alert Dialog Style

Thanks to @LeoNatan on Twitter for discovering this handy default command and for the screenshots from their tweet on the subject (listed below).

What do you think? Do you care about one particular macOS alert dialog style versus another? Have you made a change? This is just one of the many default commands available for the Mac that can tweak settings and options beyond what is easily accessible to the user through system preferences and the GUI.

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