Adding icons to the macOS Menu Bar It’s possible to add new items to the Menu Bar, provided they’re system ones found in Control Center. To achieve this, there are two methods you can use.

The good news is you can hide menu bar icons you're not using with the free application Ice. With it you can clean up the Mac menu bar by hiding applications you don't need to reference often.

The Mac menu bar is iconic. With the Apple logo in the top-left and the text menu for the current application to the right, this feature has been at the top of the screen of every Apple computer ...

Barbee is a powerful menu bar manager for your Mac. It can hide menu bar icons and help you clean up your workspace. The app also supports shortcuts and automations, allowing you to hide or unhide ...

Bartender hides icons and changes how the menu bar looks. For many the free Hidden Bar will do the job, but Bartender ($16) offers customization options the former doesn’t have.

Third-party apps will have their own methods for controlling their menu bar icons. For many apps, it's easy. You can right-click the icon and there will be an option to hide it right there.

If clicking a menu bar icon still isn’t fast enough, you can assign a keyboard combination to open MacGPT. In the app, click on the setting icon (the icon that looks like a gear), and then click ...

A free application called Menu Bar Spacing by developer Sindre Sorhus avoids all of this by changing the spacing between menu bar icons. Even better: You don't need the application to leave the ...

In macOS Tahoe Beta 2, Apple included a new option to add a background to the menu bar, making it possible to have a menu bar design that’s similar to the menu bar in macOS Sequoia.. As part of ...