Make visual feedback for touch points darker and larger in Windows 11/10

This post will show you how to enable or disable visual touch feedback or make the circle darker and larger on your touchscreen device using Settings or Registry in Windows 11/10. When you touch your device’s touchscreen, you get visual feedback that tells you that your touch has been recognized. You can disable this touch feedback or make it darker and larger, if you wish, by following the steps laid down in this post.

Make the Touch circle darker and larger in Windows 11

1. Open Windows Settings
2. Click open Accessibility settings
3. On the right side, click on Text cursor
4. Scroll down and click on Mouse pointer and touch
5. Now under Touch indicator, select Make the circle darker and larger

That’s it.

Make visual feedback for touch points darker & larger in Windows 10

To disable touch feedback or make it darker and larger on your Windows 10 touchscreen device, follow these steps:

1. Right-click on Start to open the WinX menu
2. Open Settings
3. Navigate to Ease of Access > Vision > Cursor & pointer
4. To disable touch feedback, toggle the Change touch feedback to the Off position
5. To make touch feedback darker and larger, make sure that the toggle is On and select the Make visual feedback for touch points darker & larger option.

Now check and see if you got it working.

This short clip illustrates the disabled, normal and darker options.

Make the Touch circle darker and larger using Registry

You can also make the changes using the Registry:

Open the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:

KEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Cursors

Look for the ContactVisualization DWORD and set its value as follows:

• 0 – Disable visual feedback.
• 1 – Enable visual feedback.
• 2 – Make visual touch feedback darker and larger.

If you do not see the ContactVisualization DWORD value, create it.

All the best!