Menubar

[mjspiz]

Is Apple ever going to provide a menubar app? Maybe one that will hide the notch on the MacBook Pro Max M3 in my case?
The menubar turns into a disaster. I refuse to buy/install menubar apps from China.

Mike

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Only Apple would know... but my gut guess is towards "unlikely" except "ever" is a very, VERY long time... like is it ever going to snow at the equator? Unlikely, but "ever" is hard to absolutely bet against.

 

[fisherking]

the notch is a physical thing; no way to hide it in software. meanwhile, i use hidden bar on my macbook to hide lesser-accessed apps, and it's awesome (and free). there's also the excellent bartender app.

 

[svenmany]

the notch is a physical thing; no way to hide it in software. meanwhile, i use hidden bar on my macbook to hide lesser-accessed apps, and it's awesome (and free). there's also the excellent bartender app.

Hidden Bar doesn't address the notch problem since expanding it to get at some icon might move those icons under the notch. The only way to address the notch problem is to have the expansion happen below the menu bar. This is offered by Bartender and Ice. I use Ice and it works well.

 

[fisherking]

Hidden Bar doesn't address the notch problem since expanding it to get at some icon might move those icons under the notch. The only way to address the notch problem is to have the expansion happen below the menu bar. This is offered by Bartender and Ice. I use Ice and it works well.

hidden bar works for me (but i don't have that many apps). no 'notch problem' here 👍

 

[bogdanw]

I refuse to buy/install menubar apps from China.

I refuse to buy Apple products with notches. 😉

OnlySwitch "All-in-One menu bar app, hide MacBook Pro's notch, dark mode, AirPods, Shortcuts"
https://github.com/jacklandrin/OnlySwitch
TheBoringNotch
https://theboring.name
https://github.com/TheBoredTeam/boring.notch/

 

[PotentPeas]

If you want to hide the notch, you can use BetterDisplay (free) to set your display to a 16:10 resolution. It will move the menu bar below the camera area and just leave the top part of the display all black.

(I get the annoyance of the notch, but to me is allows moving the ever-present menu bar "up" and out of the way to where there would just be empty bezel space anyway on a "regular" laptop, freeing up a little bit of screen space for other stuff. I'll take it.)

 

[dmr727]

(I get the annoyance of the notch, but to me is allows moving the ever-present menu bar "up" and out of the way to where there would just be empty bezel space anyway on a "regular" laptop, freeing up a little bit of screen space for other stuff. I'll take it.)

I feel the same way you do, but I wish the menubar were a few pixels thinner, with the bottom flush with the bottom of the notch. Maybe even make it black with white text. Are there any third party utilities that would allow you to do that?

 

[PotentPeas]

I feel the same way you do, but I wish the menubar were a few pixels thinner, with the bottom flush with the bottom of the notch. Maybe even make it black with white text. Are there any third party utilities that would allow you to do that?

I use "Ice" (which I saw someone else has also mentioned above) to manage the overflow of menu bar icons on the right-hand side. It is basically an open source replacement for "Bartender". However, it also has some appearance tweaks that you can do, that I haven't messed with.

 

[mjspiz]

I have been using ICE for over a week now. It's great! Just what I was looking for. Not made in China and a great piece of software!!