Unlike Windows, which has a menu bar on top of individual apps, macOS has a single universal menu bar at the top of the screen that all apps use. The right-hand side of this typically houses icons for ...

If there's something you want to keep track of regularly, it belongs on your Mac's menu bar. The left side of the menu bar, of course, shows the menu for the current application. The right side, ...

With tools, users can bring order to the icons in the macOS menu bar. The app Bartender 6 has been causing problems under ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. That's when I discovered Barbee, a powerful ...

The last time Bartender received a major update was back in 2021. Bartender 4 brought many new powerful features to help declutter the menu bar, particularly on the new MacBook models with a notch, ...

The menu bar in macOS is a system element that runs along the top edge of the screen. It consists of the Apple menu in the leftmost corner, the app menus in the middle, and the status menus on the top ...

Over time, I've gravitated towards a two-calendar system on my Mac because I've never found an app where both the desktop app and the menu bar version meet all my needs. That's probably because my ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. If there's something you want to keep track of regularly, it belongs on your Mac's menu bar. The left side of the menu ...