Quick Tips for Customizing the Menu Bar on Mac

Quick tips on how to add, remove and move icons on the menu bar in Mac OS to customize it to your needs!
More MacOS tips 👉 • macOS Tips
More iPhone tips 👉 • iPhone Tips
Apple Watch tips 👉 • Apple Watch Tips
Mac tips 👉 • macOS Tips
👀 5 Favorite Security Apps 👉 • The Five Best (FREE) S...
💚 SUBSCRIBE for lots more quick tip videos - bit.ly/3sTIpvW
👉 FREE UA-cam COURSE? Head over to facultyofapps.com
🤓 View my list of apps I can't live without - bit.ly/3dtTDAY
#mactips #apple #iphonetips
Transcript:
The top right corner of the menu bar has always been a useful location for Apple and third party apps to provide quick access to various settings and options. If, like me, you’ve been using your Mac for a while it’s likely you have a whole host of different icons displayed here. You can move these around into some kind of order simply by holding down the Command key and dragging each icon.
If you find your menu bar is too cluttered you can remove many of the Apple system icons by holding down the Command key and dragging the icon off the menu bar and onto the desktop. You’ll notice an X appears and letting go of your mouse button will remove the app from the menu bar. If you want to go through the list of Apple services that have access to the menu bar, open Settings and click on Control Center in the menu. Here you can set which apps to always show on the menu bar, never show, or only when in use. Further down the list, here you can make sure the menu bar is always visible, even when an app is full-screen, by changing this setting to Never.
There are some Apple menu icons that don’t appear in this list but you may like to add to the menu bar, such as the ability to turn on Game mode. You can find these hidden menu icons by opening Finder, clicking on Go To Folder from the menu and typing in this address
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras
Double clicking on any of these will add them to your menu bar.
Finally, many of the Apple icons will offer you additional information when you click on them whilst holding down the Option key. So, for example, clicking on my Wifi icon tells me which network I’m connected to. However, if I hold down the Option key and click the icon again, now you can see I have a whole lot more information, such as my IP address, current network speed, and the Mac address. It’s the same for BlueTooth. Here’s what I see without the Option key held down and now with the Option key pressed. If I hold down Option and click on the Date and Time it activates the Do Not Disturb Focus mode, which will prevent me from receiving notifications whilst enabled. To turn it off I simply click on the icon and there you have it.

[@michealmclaughlin429]

Finally some good content on the menu bar - thanks sir! I've been trying to keep the Fluz app up there for ages and it always disappears

[@juancarloscalderonsussoni2040]

How can I remove the third party apps from the menu bar? All the apple apps I can remove but third party ones won't let me

[@_Petrus]

Obrigado 👍👍👍👍

[@itsDelfi]

i wanna know how to change the damn menu bar colour

[@kirara2249]

it changed base on wallpaper's color, and that s*ck.