On this Mac laptop, screen at full brightness in daylight, I can hardly see the grey text. Although it says 'country' I can see a lot of people typing in citie

On this Mac laptop, screen at full brightness in daylight, I can hardly see the grey text. Although it says 'country' I can see a lot of people typing in cities. Any way to resolve those as well? Also: trim whitespace. I typed in UK, hit space to remove Ukraine as a match, and it said no matches for "UK ".