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macOS 12.1 Fixes Menu Bar Icons Obscured by Notch on 2021 MacBook Pros
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The reasoning I remember reading was that aligning it exactly would actually look more weird due to an optical illusion kind of thing created by the merging of the separate lines, don't recall exactly what it was.
I have faced a weird issue on my menu bar from 12.0.1. When I connect my external monitor, and switch back the menu bar icons are somehow spaced out with a lot of gap area and they reach the notch.
See attached. Anyone else facing this or has a fix?
And this is how it looks after it fixes itself once I close an app and remove an icon.
See attached. Anyone else facing this or has a fix?
And this is how it looks after it fixes itself once I close an app and remove an icon.
I'm hoping that the USB Hub issues are fixed. Satech, and others are either non-functional or intermittent. They worked just fine with previous MacOS versions. I would like to think that USB functionality would be a key feature for a new OS update - but, I would be wrong
It would be nice if there were better native menu bar management, like how toolbars are so easy to edit. Or even adding folders or hiding etc like Bartender, similar.
I don't mind the notch, but seriously...
How was something this important not a priority for Apple when they knew they were going to release a laptop with this design quirk?
Making sure all icons worked great with the notch from day-one seems beyond obvious.
How was something this important not a priority for Apple when they knew they were going to release a laptop with this design quirk?
Making sure all icons worked great with the notch from day-one seems beyond obvious.
I agree that its weird how apple auto wrapped menu bar items but not menu bar icons.
The image is over processed, and with any luck Apple will provide options in the future to turn this processing off. There is nothing wrong with the hardware.
I'm having the exact same problem, only happens on the built in monitor if I have "one too many" icons there. Really annoying.
i just got my new macbook pro 2 days ago and have seen this happen randomly. sometimes it’s when i open an app with location.
hope the update fixes it, quite weird
There's a toggle in the "Get Info" section for every app where you can choose this behavior (block out the top 74px bar and put the menubar below it), or so I've heard (I don't have one yet). And I've heard mention of a number of third party apps that do this globally.
It’s not random. I think it’s an intentional design decision.
I tested it out - essentially when the number of menu bar items reaches a threshold, it increases the spacing so that they distribute evenly across the bar from edge of notch to edge of screen.
If there are too few (so that the spacing between each would be too wide) it keeps them neatly aligned to the edge of screen.
Not sure what the exact thresholds are but it’s very consistent and definitely not random.
What's funny here is that the screen is larger than the standard ratio to fit that entire bar that would have been a bezel...then the notch was added to that...along with a webcam better than any other you're going to find in a laptop. Even if it was a broken webcam that didn't work, you'd still have more space than if they didn't create that bar.