How to Customize and Change the Icon or Color of Folders, Toolbar and Sideboard on Mac

The Apple company is always ahead of other companies when we talk about customization, which is why it is quite loved and appreciated by all the public who know their devices. That’s why we will show you ways to customize your icons on MacBook.

Whether you’re doing this to spruce up your desk a bit, make Search easier to use, or want to use color to easily identify certain types of folders, you can do it in a few moments. Every now and then I like to make certain folders on my MacOS desktop stand out. For example, I use automation to move saved screenshots to my desktop directly to a special Screenshots folder.

As always I am looking for the screenshots I take, I decided to paint the folder purple to make it stand out from the other items on my desk. Here is how you can easily do the same.

How to customize the color of MacBook folders

1. Create a new folder if you don’t want to change an existing one.
2. Click with the right click on folder you want to change and choose Get Info.
3. At the top of this dialog, you will see a picture of a folder next to the folder name.
4. Click on this image.
5. Then choose Edit> Copy from the menu bar.
   Open preview.
6. You can do this quickly by pressing Cmd + Space to open Spotlight, then typing Preview.
7. With Preview open, select File> New from Clipboard.
8. Click the Show Markup Toolbar button.
9. It looks like a bookmark and is next to the search box.
10. Choose the Adjust Color tool that looks like a prism with the light shining through.
11. Use the sliders on the right side to adjust the color of the folder to your liking.
12. When you’re satisfied, choose Edit> Select All from the menu bar.
13. Press Cmd + C to copy the new folder.
14. Go back to the information tab of the previous folder.
15. Click the folder image again and press Cmd + V to paste the new folder over the old one.

By following these steps you can change the color of the folders on your Mac. So you can enjoy personalization and organization. You must also be careful in case any folder is hidden we will have to enable the show folder function. One of the best options is to put colors that quickly remind you of the contents of the folders. This way you will easily locate them.

How to customize your folder icons on MacBook

But not it is a very typical process and may seem complicated at first glance, changing the folder icon on Mac is quite easy and fast to do.

First of all, you need to determine:

• What is the folder you want to change its icon to.
• What is the new icon that you want to apply to said folder.
• For this you can do a quick search on the internet examining some icons that may interest you.

If you find one or more, you can download them and store them in a single folder (they have to be sorted). But in case you want use an application icon that you already have on your Mac device, this is also possible. The process is the same as any other icon that you have been able to get online. You must click on the icon you want, either a downloaded one or an application on your list.

Immediately press the command key (cmd) at the same time as the “c” key, resulting in: “cmd+c”In order to copy the icon.

Now that you know how to change the colors and icons on your MacBook, so you can fully customize your computer. Remember that it is not only about personalization, it is also about having a better organization of your content. So start enjoying the benefits of personalization.

The importance of organization and performance on MacBook

Apart from the organization of our files not only will allow us to have easy access to everything, You can also view those documents or information that is in disuse. It is essential to maintain optimal performance on our Mac computer to eliminate this content that only stores information and also taking into account programs or software that we should uninstall, since they are unused, since some run in the background and take away our performance. and more if we have a limited RAM memory.

Programs like Clear my Mac allow us to clean our RAM memory automatically so that we can do this maintenance process automatically.