Mac menu bar guides
Everything we have learned about how the macOS menu bar actually behaves — the notch budget, the hidden spacing preferences, and the reason icons disappear without warning. Every guide leads with the fixes built into macOS, then says where a tool helps.
Why the MacBook notch hides your menu bar icons
macOS never draws status items in the notch region, so the overflow is dropped without warning. Six fixes, from a scaled resolution to a manager that reports the shortfall.
7 min read
How to hide menu bar icons on a Mac
Control Center for Apple's icons, Command-drag for third-party ones, and a menu bar manager for everything you want back on a shortcut.
6 min read
Menu bar icons missing on macOS?
Eight checks, ordered by how often each turns out to be the cause. Start with the notch and a menu bar manager before suspecting the app.
5 min read
How to fit more icons in the macOS menu bar
The four levers that create menu bar width: scaled resolution, removing icons, tightening per-item padding, and hiding the remainder.
5 min read
How to rearrange menu bar icons on macOS
Command-drag reorders, Command-drag-down removes. On a notched MacBook the order decides which icons macOS drops first.
4 min read
Pelmet troubleshooting
Nothing in the menu bar, a +N badge you have not seen before, a lost divider, or a build that quits with your terminal — each with its fix.
5 min read
Get your menu bar back
Free, open source, and signed by Apple. Two lines of terminal or one drag to Applications.
$brew install --cask ismatBabirli/pelmet/pelmet