How to remove items from the menu bar in high sierra?!

[shankar2]

So I have programs that launch upon reboot automatically. However I want some of the items that hence appear in the menu bar in high sierra removed!

I tried pressing the command button and dragging the icon away from the menu bar but it keeps bouncing back to the menu bar!

How do I remove any item from the menu bar once and for all? Thanks!

 

[MC6800]

In general the control for the presence of a menu extra is in that feature's preferences, which you can usually get to from that menu. For example the Wi-Fi menu has "Open Network Preferences..." where you'll find the "Show Wi-Fi status in menu bar" checkbox. The Command-drag just lets you reorder them.

 

[shankar2]

Some 3rd party apps that start upon login place themselves into the menu bar and their preferences don't have any section of placement in menu bar. :-(

 

[TheSkywalker77]

Hold the Command key and you're able to drag any of the Menu Bar icons. You can also drag them out of the Menu Bar to remove them.

 

[fisherking]

consider checking out https://www.macbartender.com

i love this app (i have it on both of my macs); gives me control over the icons in the menubar; i keep most hidden (except, of course, what i want to see). app has some good options, too...

 

[donawalt]

Hold the Command key and you're able to drag any of the Menu Bar icons. You can also drag them out of the Menu Bar to remove them.

When I do this under 10.13.4 they just snap back in place when I drag them off the menu bar with Command key pressed. Unless this is app specific and it works for some I did not try...

 

[TheSkywalker77]

When I do this under 10.13.4 they just snap back in place when I drag them of the menu bar with Command key pressed. Unless this is app specific and it works for some I did not try...

Odd. It was working fine for me on 10.13.4 and 10.13.5.