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The macOS menu bar is a great place for quickly accessing system and
application functions using menu extras or "menulets", but it can get
cluttered pretty quickly as more and more icons vie for a space there.

If the corner of your Mac's screen is fast becoming an eyesore, here are
some quick and simple actions you can perform to bring order to the chaos,
plus a few additional tips for making the most of Apple's menu bar extras.

How to Rearrange Icons in the Menu Bar

Plenty of menu bar icons offer useful shortcuts to app and system functions,
and may take up permanent residence on your screen. But left to their own Guides
devices, the arrangement of said icons is likely to become haphazard.
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Fortunately, re-organizing them is simple, once you know how to do it. Apple's Beats brand in April unveiled the
Powerbeats Pro, a redesigned wire-free
1 Hold down the Command (⌘) key. version of its popular fitness-oriented
Powerbeats earbuds.

2 Hover your mouse cursor over the icon you want to move. AirPods Guide
If you're new to AirPods, considering
buying a pair, or just want to pick up
3 Holding down the left mouse button, drag the icon into your some new tips.
preferred position on the menu bar. Other icons will step aside to
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4 Let go of the left mouse button.
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corner of the menu bar and cannot be moved elsewhere.
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How to Remove System Icons From the Menu Bar Flexgate MacBook Pro Issue

Icons linked to system controls can be easily removed from the menu bar in MacBook Air Camera Issue
the following way:
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1 Hold down the Command (⌘) key.
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2 Hover your mouse cursor over the icon you want to remove.

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If the icon doesn't vanish with a "whoosh" sound, then it was likely put there
by a third-party app you or another user installed. In that case, look for an
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option in the associated app's settings such as "Show in Menu Bar" and
uncheck it.
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If you removed a system icon from the menu bar and would like it back, or if The Netflix app for iPhone and
you'd like to add a fresh one, you can find options in the associated iPad no longer appears to
preference panes. For example, to reinstate the AirPlay icon in the menu support AirPlay, based on an
updated support document
bar: found on the Netflix website.
According to Netflix, AirPlay is
1 Click the apple symbol in the far left of the menu bar and select no longer supported...
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in the menu bar when available". 10.15, Apple may be planning to
release separate Music and
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shared this afternoon,...
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Apple in late March unveiled its

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news content for a $9.99 per
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Similar menu bar options relating to Sound volume, Bluetooth, Siri, Time
Apple Shares New 'Shot on iPhone XS' Short
Machine, and Accessibility status can be found in their respective Film Exploring the Cuban Surfing Community
preference panes. In addition to Wi-Fi status (listed below), the Network 1 day ago on Front Page
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you have them set up, while menu bar icons related to keyboard, battery, on iPhone XS" video on its
user account, and date/time are located less obviously in the following YouTube channel that highlights
the growing surfing community
preference pane menus and tabs:
in Cuba. Apple says the short
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Keyboard -> Input Sources -> Show Input menu in menu bar.
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Energy Saver -> Show battery status in menu bar.
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Date & Time -> Clock -> Show date and time in menu bar.
Apple has shelved plans to build
a new flagship Apple Store at
Menu Bar Extras the Federation Square shopping
center in Melbourne, Australia
after heritage authorities
For one reason or another, some menulet options remain hidden in System
refused an application to
Preferences by default. Interested users can find the full collection in the demolish the Yarra...
System folder: Open a Finder window, from the menu bar select Go -> Go
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to Folder..., and then navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu
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graphics tablet to your Mac, for example. Just double-click any that look version of its updated Smartcast
software, which allows iPhone
useful and they'll be added to the menu bar. They can be removed just as owners who have a Smartcast-
easily using the Command (⌘) key method described above. enabled TV to use AirPlay 2 and
HomeKit integrations for the
first time on a...
Finally, users looking for a more comprehensive method of managing menu
bar icons should consider third-party app Bartender 3 ($15). 45 comments

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Comments

Westside guy
15 months ago

So, I already knew this - but... I wanted to say "Thank you!" to the
author for writing a succinct, informative tutorial rather than an
recording an eight-minute-long YouTube video!

Seriously, I get so tired of searching for information on some

subject where the answer could be presented in 50 words of prose,
but instead the search results page is littered with ridiculously long
YouTube videos. The most ludicrous one I ever came across was
a several-minute-long video that consisted of a live screen capture
of some dude typing at the bash prompt! WHAT IS WRONG WITH
THESE PEOPLE?

Rating: 9 Votes

MacDawg
15 months ago

Nice article, but I'm not sure people are wanting to

move them as much as maybe remove them - I'm
looking at you Creative Cloud

Why anyone would want to move them

I want to do both... move them and remove some of them (and hide
others on a separate bar)
I just like things organized the way I want them and not the way the
system organizes them

I use Bartender 3 now to have better control and accomplish what I

want
Rating: 7 Votes

Schranke
15 months ago

Damm I have been using mac for many years now and I did not
know this:eek:
Well it sure is helpful!
The more you know:apple:

Rating: 6 Votes

maflynn
15 months ago

Nice article, but I'm not sure people are wanting to move them as
much as maybe remove them - I'm looking at you Creative Cloud

Rating: 4 Votes

kissmo
15 months ago

Nice article, but I'm not sure people are wanting to

move them as much as maybe remove them - I'm
looking at you Creative Cloud

Open Creative Cloud.

Click on those vertical dots (3 of them) on the icon in the Menu Bar
- Prefferences
De-Select Launch at Login.

Do you mean this? If so - I hope it helps.

Rating: 4 Votes

JosephAW
15 months ago

This has been around since OS X 10.2. BTW it doesn't work for all
menu items so many will be frustrated when this doesn't work.

Rating: 2 Votes

MacDawg
15 months ago

Looks like that just hides items

Most of the items on the Menu Bar are items I want there
But with the limited screen size of my MacBook Air particularly,
they can run into the app menu and get lost
Bartender allows me to have another bar for lesser used items, but
items I still want access to and I can toggle them

Rating: 2 Votes

djlythium
15 months ago

If only I could remove the Spotlight and Notification Center icons

just as easily, without third-party support.

Rating: 2 Votes
 KALLT
15 months ago

This has been around since OS X 10.2. BTW it doesn't

work for all menu items so many will be frustrated when
this doesn't work.

Allmost all of them work as of Sierra. Apple added this behaviour to

third-party apps.

Rating: 2 Votes

jimthing
15 months ago

Articles like this is one of the things I like about

MacRumors.

9to5mac are doing good stuff too, to be fair.

Jeff Benjamin and Ben Lovejoy being two writers that come to mind
over there. The former doing good reviews on interesting sw/hw
(new advances in eGPU stuff, storage, docks, et al.) with negatives
importantly made clear rather than endless positive superlatives
many other writers seem to go in for. The latter on home(kit)
automation, and interesting editorials on WHY certain decisions
Apple (or whoever) may have taken.

MR is great too, I agree. And is all about the really great and
detailed forum abilities with its integrated user experience, which
9to5's platform doesn't really allow much of.

Both sites are firmly must have reads in the Apple/tech realm, IMO!

So keep up the good work guys and gals. :)

(iMore = best at "how to's" these days.)

Rating: 1 Votes

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