31 Mac Menu Bar Tips and Tricks
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- macmost.com/e-2984 Here are 31 useful tips that will help you get the most from the Mac Menu Bar. Learn how to find hidden items, select menus with just the keyboard, search for items, customize the right side and much more.
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00:00 Intro
00:28 1. Two Way To Use the Menu Bar
00:46 2. Learn Keyboard Shortcuts
01:16 3. Reveal Hidden Options
01:51 4. Three Dots For Safety
02:25 5. The Esc Key
02:45 6. Search For Menu Commands
03:15 7. Use the Menu Bar With Just the Keyboard
03:57 8. Keyboard Shortcut To Search
04:25 9. One Keyboard Shortcut For Both
04:45 10. Jump To a Menu Item By Letter
05:12 11. Add Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts
06:12 12. Show the Menu Bar In Full Screen Mode
06:39 13. Hide the Menu Bar Always
06:57 14. Change the Menu Bar Highlight Color
07:16 15. Make the Menu Bar Bigger
07:44 16. Reduce Menu Bar Transparency
08:06 17. Change the Number of Recents
08:33 18. Go To Location of Recent Files
08:49 19. Add Control Center Items
09:25 20. Drag and Drop From Control Center
09:39 21. Remove Menus
09:50 22. Rearrange Menu Bar Items
10:07 23. Reveal More Controls With the Option Key
10:21 24. Change the Menu Bar Clock
10:42 25. The Clock and Do Not Disturb
11:30 26. Add Menu Items With Shortcuts
12:08 27. Rearrange the Shortcuts Menu
12:26 28. Remove Shortcuts
12:44 29. Shortcut For the Notifications Center
12:56 30. Shortcut For Control Center
13:07 31. Center the Spotlight Menu Window
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I so enjoy your unbelievable clarity of explanation. Not a useless word used.
Love your tips. I have been using macs for years and still learn something new every time. Never new what the "globe" key was for.
A very useful and informative video tutorial today! So up much to learn! Thank you, Gary! 👏❤️
Wonderful. It’s so helpful to be reminded about all the options we have.
So many godsends. This video in particular makes me appreciate much more how rich and mature MacOS is in ways that are not readily apparent (until you get in the habit of using the shortcuts). TY and kudos (yet again).
Many thanks for this video. There were 3 keyboard shortcuts which were new to me and learnt from this video. You are a great teacher.
Great video, thank you sir!
As usual, a very useful tutorial. Many thanks!
As always, very useful tips-kudos!
Thanks very much, Gary, for this very informative video today! Some great new tips I have learned.
A great summary, I will be using some of these in the future, and will bookmark this one for future use
Wow, great video, and great explanations.
Every. Single. Time. I watch your videos, I learn something new, in today's case, the fact that the last (10, 15, 20) items are available to me in the "Recent Items" menu in the Apple Menu. How many times have I reopened the app where the file is, or worse, tried to figure out *which* app I need to open to reopen a file? With your crystal-clear help, Gary, I can "shortcut" my way over to the Apple Menu, find the item, and let Mac figure out how to open it! So many steps saved! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Glad to help!
Thanks Gary. What an elegant look the Mac has, compared to a certain other operating system.
Thanks bunches
thank you, a lot of helpful tips even for someone like me that uses a Mac since ages!
Wow, ive been looking at the mac menu bars for more than 20 years, and i did not know about most of the feature you mentioned! thanks gary!
Thank you
Mind blowing. Does apple even have this stuff documented?
Hey Gerry, another great video from you. Also, I love the mouse hole that you put your picture in a picture in for yourself cute.
I was thinking “ok, there is no way he is going to have 31 useful tips on something as simple as a menu bar,” but this is packed with useful stuff. I had always wondered how to access the menus with my keyboard like I could on Windows.
Always enjoy your tutorial eventhough I already know most of them. ❤
Edit: Actually I still don’t know most of em
Thanks Gary! The one thing I wish you could do with the menu bar is to set a delay to display it or disable it in full screen. It is very annoying to be using a virtual machine and when you move the mouse to the top of the screen the Mac menu bar drops down, obscuring what you were trying to click on in the VM.
I was going to ask the exact same question.
Those arrows when you are looking for an item always remind me of one of those "stickies" that a lawyer uses on a document. It usually makes me smile when I see it.
Yes, I see it too!
Another great Vit.
Is there a way I can search your videos for subjects you have addressed . If I you tube search I get many folks videos . Which can be varied in quality .
Yes. Go to macmost.com and there is a search field at the top. Or, you can go to the UA-cam channel page for macmostvideo and search there too.
Just wondering if anyone knows of a helper app that dynamically positions the menubar at the cursor's location? I am using "MenuWhere" but it presents the menu as a hierarchical vertical menu, not horizontally the way the mac's native menubar is designed. The reason I am asking? I am using a large monitor, and I am interested in acquiring a large curved monitor (57" wide). At high resolutions (4K and above), the menbar is both extremely small, at the top and way way way over to the left. Would be truly great if the there was a tech that would allow the user to ask that the menubar would pop up at the mouseloc (with a custom key combination and click). I can also imagine choosing a setting that actively slid the menubar along in its usual place at the top of the screen, so that the apple menu was always directly above the cursor's horizontal location. It would be supper as well if one could choose a setting that kept the menubar the same size no matter what resolution I choose. Anyone know of such a helper app or means of accomplishing any of the above?
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He has a gift doesn’t he! ❤
I still find menu shortcuts a bit of a minefield without a mechanism/app to display all the current shortcut mappings. I realise its not a macos feature (yet), but surprised that there isn't an app that scans a users account for all current shortcuts and displays the results.
Would be very difficult if not impossible. App developers can program in keyboard shortcuts in a variety of ways so scanning the binary executables of those apps and trying to determine the keys wouldn't be possible.
09:55 Apple should have implemented a dropdown menu for the icons that don't have enough space to be displayed in the menu bar due to the notch, similar to how it has been done on Windows. Icons could automatically hide in the dropdown menu when there isn't enough space for them. That's odd that users have to solve this issue by themselves. Thanks God there is the Bartender app for that. Too bad it costs 16$!
They kinda have that with Control Center. Not a complete solution though.
@@macmost That's a lame solution; there should be a drop-down area similar to the one in Windows OS.
how do i put stickies on the menu bar?
You can't. It doesn't work like that.
If you change the resolution to make text bigger, does this also affect the resolution of photos and videos?
Do you mean the resolution of the display? That doesn't change what is in your photos and videos. It is just a display setting.
@@macmost thanks. I was afraid that changing this setting would mean that I was reducing the effective resolution of the screen for everything including photos. After all, it does describe the resolution in terms of pixels. In that case buying a Mac with a high resolution screen would be a waste of money.
@@grahamf695 It does change the resolution of the screen. It doesn't change the resolution of photos. Not sure we are communicating on this.
@@macmost sorry I am probably not explaining myself clearly enough. My MacBook Pro screen has a resolution of 3456x2234 pixels and the graphics engine presents data for all those pixels to the screen. If I plug the laptop into my HD TV, the graphics engine has to present only 1920 x 1080 pixels to the TV, because that is all it can handle. Photos look the same, but have lower resolution compared to the MacBook screen. The same applies to text, because MacOS scales the text or image onto the available screen pixels. My question is: “if I reduce the resolution of my MacBook screen to 1728 x 1117, is that altering just the scaling of the text onto the available 3456 x 2234 real pixels? Or maybe it is reducing the effective resolution of the screen by 2x in each direction? If it is reducing effective screen resolution, then I will see less detail in my photos. In Windows, you can adjust text size independently of screen resolution, but MacOS may not work the same way.
@@grahamf695 If you choose 1728x1117 for a screen that is 3456x2234 then it should be showing you things using all 3456x2234 pixels but your interface scaled. So if you used a magnifying glass and looked at some text you would see fine lines of text taking advantage of all the pixels there. Apple calls this "Retina" display (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_display)
I don't understand that some apps I download show in menubar on the right and some don't. How can I control this?? It's annoying.. 😑 I wish I can just add applications that I want to the menubar on the right... Is this possible
It depends on the app. The developer of the app creates that menu and defines what it is and how it works. You can't just add any app there as the code wouldn't exist to support it.
Odd question for iOS devices, is there a way to display the keyboard on the screen like on a Mac so you can see all of the key options like “• ° ¢” etc. when you are searching for hidden special characters?
The keyboard is already on the screen though... ?
@@macmost - The Mac has a keyboard that you can display all of the hidden characters by using a combination of the shift and option keys and as you press them they hidden characters appear. I was just wondering how we can, if we can see this on iOS devices.
@@Erin-Thor The equivalent would be to tap the 123 key and then the #+= key to see what is there, I suppose. It is a very different situation with a virtual keyboard as opposed to a physical one.
I use a long press on various keys, which sometimes show an alternate symbol. For example, a long press on 0 (zero) will show the degrees symbol (°). When it shows you have to slide your finger to it and let go. Then you’ll get the alternate symbol. Not every key has this but fooling around will find some useful ones. (A long press on $ will bring up other currency symbols.) Finally, pressing on the globe symbol in iOS will reveal all your keyboards. More can be added in keyboard>settings in Settings. I hope this helps.