This has been a problem for years if you have a lot of menu bar icons. Some are likely to be pushed off screen. The notch just made the problem more likely. The solution has been to use Bartender to manage those icons. You will probably find that many of them don't need to be visible all the time. Bartender lets you move those off to a secondary panel that display either when you click on an icon or on mouseover. I have used it for several years even though my laptops come from the pre-notch time.
never experienced that here with bartender. where have you read that? (just curious). 'hidden bar' worked well for me previously, but would not give up the more-extensive options and regular updates of bartender for it.
I just checked Activity Monitor. Bartender is currently using 41MB of RAM and 0.1% CPU. That doesn't seem very hoggish.
Reddit, Discord, some other forums. To reiterate, these are things I've heard recently, not things I've experienced.
I'm just sharing what I've heard. I don't use Bartender or any Bartender-style apps. It may have been fixed in an update or something, or maybe it was just a freak bug that only a handful of people experienced.
if it's on reddit or dischord, it must be true. 🤔
I did check my work MBP which has about twice the number of icons, and the RAM usage got all the way up to 64MB of RAM! 😊
my M2 air shows the same numbers as your previous post (0.1/41). my intel imac shows 0.1/21.8.
Someone's cranky today.
it's ok that you're cranky 😉
doesn't seem like it; but you can explore system settings>control center to see what options you do have...
Do you use Siri on your Mac? If not there is an option to not show it in the menu bar.
Yeah, I'm seeing 16 MB of RAM and 0.12% of CPU. Seems quite tame to me.
I use it rarely.
