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Micah Sargent (1:31)
On Apple, let's take a look at what I feel is a very exciting change to the way that you manage your control center and your menu bar on macOS. Stay tuned.
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Micah Sargent (1:49)
This is TWiT. Welcome back to Hands on Apple. I am Micah Sargent and today we're taking a look at a feature that I am I think it's been a long time coming because for the longest time people have had to turn to third party apps to do any level of management of true management of their menu bar. On macOS, you had to use an app like Bartender, for example, or Ice, or another third party tool that would let you say, I want this to show up in the Mac menu bar. I don't want this to show up in the Mac menu bar. I want this to be over here. I want it to be over there. That's kind of annoying. And so in Kos Tahoe, things have gotten even better and given you more control over your menu bar. And so we're going to take a look at that. There's also the fact that in macOS Tahoe by default the menu bar disappears. And I don't mean fully Disappears, but instead does not have a background. So for some people who start using macOS, Tahoe, they go, okay, what's happening here? And it's kind of hard. It's like when someone changes a very subtle feature about themselves, right? And you know something's off, but you're not quite sure what it is. That's kind of how you might feel when it comes to this. So let's head over to macOS and take a look at what we've got going. All right, here we are on macOS. And of course, the first thing that we're going to do is look at the screen up at the top. You can see that the menu bar is there, but it is not. It's not translucent and it is not fully formed out. It's not opaque. Instead, there's no opacity at all. It is transparent, save for kind of a little line at the bottom. So let's talk about what we can do if we want to change that. We're going to launch the System Settings app and we are going to click on menu bar. This will give us the information and controls that we need for making adjustments here. So the first thing to understand is that there's a control that we've seen for a long time automatically hide and show the menu bar. This tool, this setting rather lets you decide when the menu bar is hidden. Currently, it's set to in full screen only. That's how I have it. You can set it to always. So right now the menu bar is completely hidden. And the way to beckon to it is to kind of push your cursor up towards the edge of the screen and then push a little bit more. You can set it to on desktop only, which means that when you are on the desktop, it's not there. And when you're in other views, then it appears in full screen only, which says that when you are in a full screen mode. So if you have an app open in full screen, then it disappears, which is the way that I like to have it, and then never, which says that no matter what, always display it. So I'm gonna change mine back to in full screen only to keep that how I have it. Now, here is the feature that I was talking about. Show menu bar background. If you are launching Tahoe and you're going, something's off here. It could be this. Toggle this on and see if that makes a difference for you. Now I suggest letting it run for a little while without the menu bar background, just to see. It kind of gives A visual sense of the screen. The display being a little bit bigger, even though it's not technically. And you can kind of toggle on and off to get your brain used to it. If it's show menu bar background is turned on, then you'll see that hyper blurred menu bar at the top that is still pulling in color from whatever your wallpaper is. But it does not completely disappear. And you'll notice that that little line that was showing up earlier has gone away. So now it's just a completely transparent menu bar, fully able to see that the wallpaper is showing up behind it. The next option, interesting that it shows up here, but it's Recent Documents, Applications and Servers. This just says Mac os. I want you to hold on to my history of recent documents I've opened, recent applications I've opened, and recent servers I've connected to. And you can choose how many you have. So that way anytime you are attempting to open something you can choose File, open recent and this is what determines what shows up in that list. Or when you're connecting to a server, it'll show you by if you don't remember by on with Finder Open, you hold down command and hit K and that will automatically connect to servers and you can see the previous servers to which you've connected. So that's easy for accessing network attached storage. Now the next section is called Menu Bar Controls and this is a way to add controls to the menu bar or Control Center. So if we choose Add Controls here, we'll see that the screen completely changes and that's because it's specific to the controls that we have that's new to macOS. This is akin to Control center on iOS and gives you the ability to control different apps that you might have, but also to access certain features like starting a screensaver, for example, being able to control your home. All of these features are able to be placed in Control center. That many of them also able to be placed in the menu bar. So you'll notice that while I have that selected, I've hit Add Controls. I am able to remove or add to my Control center on the right, but there's also a plus icon up here at the top and I am able to then select some features that I can add to Control center up at the top. Excuse me, to the menu bar up at the top as well. So a really nice way of making it possible to get at different controls. So we'll go ahead and remove that from our menu bar and you can see I've Got one for music as well. We'll choose Done to hop out of this. So now, if we wanted to, we could add controls to the menu bar, but that's not what we're aiming to do today.