![]() And I like to show the date but not the day of the week. Instead, I prefer the 12-hour digital clock without seconds or AM/PM signifiers. As tempting as this is for my cluttered menu bar, I find the icon too small to be useful. If you have a crowded menu bar, you can choose to display the time as analog, which displays only a tiny but working clock icon while hiding the date. ![]() Click on the time and choose Open Date & Time Preferences. You have a number of options for how the date and time are displayed on the menu bar. MenubarX is like a mini web browser that you can add to your Mac’s menu bar. (When hidden, you can do the same and again select Show Percentage.) And if you use a stationary MacBook that's always plugged in, you can hide the battery icon by clicking on the icon, selecting Open Energy Saver Preferences, and unchecking the box for Show battery status in menu bar. You got too many items in your Preference panes Go to Apple logo > System Settings Look through the list of widgets at the bottom of the window. To do so, click on the battery icon and select Show Percentage. If you like to ballpark it at a glance, then you can hide the percentage of battery life remaining and just use the icon. If you have a MacBook, then you likely use the battery icon in the menu bar to know when to retreat to a wall outlet. Also, you can't drag to reorder the Spotlight and Notification Center icons they remain next to one another in the right-hand corner. You can use the Command-drag maneuver to reorder many third-party app icons on the menu bar, but I found I couldn't use it to remove them from the menu bar. Here we see both as they might appear on your display. With the keyboard and character viewers enabled, you gain easy access to the onscreen keyboard, symbols, arrows, and more. ![]() On the Keyboard tab, you can elect to Show Keyboard & Character Viewers. Be careful you don't accidentally drag them off of the menu bar because they will go "poof!" and disappear, forcing you to open System Preferences, find the settings panel for the icon you just removed, and check the box to show it again in the menu bar. Open System Preferences > Dock & Menu Bar Choose the setting from the list Check the box next to Show in Menu Bar. The Keyboard preferences have two options for the menu bar. You can also use Command-drag to move these icons to a different spot on the menu bar should you want to change the order in which they appear. You can go into System Preferences and drill down to the panel for each of these icons and uncheck a box to show its icon in the menu bar, but a quicker way to remove these icons is to hold down the Command key and drag them off the menu bar. ![]() Apple includes a number of icons on the right side of the menu bar, from the time and battery life remaining (if you are on some flavor of MacBook) to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi indicators. ![]()
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