Yes, yes, you should have complete control over your Mac…except in cases where you wouldn’t be able to use your password manager properly afterward. If you then let it go, the item will be removed from your menu bar! Now, note that this won’t work with all of them if one of your status menus is required to be there (as in the case of third-party programs like 1Password or built-in stuff like Spotlight), trying to trash the icon in this way just won’t do anything. Listing 37-3 clicks a button in the Safari toolbar to toggle the sidebar between open and closed. Wait a moment or two after you drag, and a tiny “x” will appear on the icon. Now, if you’d like to actually remove one of these icons instead, all you’ll do is hold down Command again and drag it out of the menu bar, like so: When you drag a status menu to its new location, just let go, and the positioning will remain. I moved the Wi-Fi status menu in my above screenshot, and here I’m moving the Date & Time one:
Instead, you must hold down the Command key on your keyboard, and then click and drag on one you want to move to adjust its position. In the App Store, on the left side of the window, select Updates. In the menu bar, click the Apple icon to open the Apple menu.
If you want to change the order of these status menu icons, you can’t just drag them around. After youve gone through the preparation steps, you need to download and install the latest version of macOS. To show more details or options, click a status menu icon.
With those status menus, you can of course join networks, adjust your volume, or check your battery percentage, depending on which ones are shown there. Toward the right end of the menu bar are items (sometimes called status menus), typically represented by icons, that let you check the status of your Mac (such as the battery charge) or customize features (such as keyboard brightness). The icons to the right of those app-specific options are the status menus. So here’s what I mean when I say both “menu bar” and “status menus.” The bar at the top of your screen that contains the drop-down app menus for whatever program you’re in is the menu bar.
In any case, though, it’s easy to move them and maybe even get rid of them if they’re unnecessary, so let’s learn about how to rearrange the menu bar on the Mac! Menu Bar and Status Menus Maybe you instead run a zillion programs that are associated with those icons, and so your menu bar is stuffed full. Maybe yours are sparse, with only the Wi-Fi controls, the date and time, and Spotlight, for example. One of the handy things about the option to customize the menu bar from Control Center is you can tweak your setup on the fly much more quickly than jumping in and out of System Preferences.The so-called status menu icons-which is how Apple refers to the tiny icons on the menu bar in the upper-right corner of your screen-have many possible functions. To remove one from the menu bar, you actually can’t drag it out from there, you need to go back to it in Control Center click and do a short drag (any direction) on it, you’ll hear a sound effect confirmation and also see it disappear from the menu bar.You can add any of the Control Center settings to the menu bar.Hover over a Control Center setting you’d like in your menu bar, then click and drag it to the menu bar and let go.When you click the icon you’ll see a ‘Link keyboard and mouse to:’ heading with the name. Click the Control Center icon in the top right corner (two pill shapes) Once an instance of Universal Control is established, the Display icon will appear in the menu bar.The app uses the screenshot to blend in the menu bar with the icons inside the menu bar to. With the layout really varying by personal preference, let’s look at how to customize the menu bar… Customize the menu bar with Control Center in macOS Big Sur Bartender and macOS Catalina Screen Recording Permission.
Like previous macOS versions, you can still head to System Preferences and use the checkbox to show different settings in the menu bar, but there is a neat drag and drop option to bring settings from Control Center to the menu bar on Mac now. With a revamped Notification Center and Control Center arriving for the first time, macOS Big Sur’s menu bar is more minimal than ever by default. Read along for how to customize the menu bar with Control Center in macOS Big Sur.
However, you may be missing some functionality you’re used to or want to try out the new options. One of the big changes with macOS Big Sur is Control Center arriving on the Mac and this has simplified the default menu bar.