If you have an AirPlay display or device, you can mirror your desktop to it, and you can select to show mirroring options in the menu bar. This can include the arrangement of your multi-monitor setup, rotation, and resolution. The Displays preferences allow you to change stuff with your system’s displays, both built-in and attached. Of the seven items on the Hardware preferences, we’re going to focus on Displays, Energy Saver, Keyboard, and Sound. If you need to change how your laptop consumes energy on battery, or the way the keyboard or trackpad behaves, or all things printer-related, the Hardware preferences are the place to go. The second row consists of all things hardware-related. If you want to turn this off, then uncheck the box next to “Enable location services”. More often than not, you won’t see Location Services requesting information, or it will happen very briefly, and the little arrow will then disappear. Like Language & Region, the Security & Privacy preferences don’t do a whole lot to the menu bar, but Location Services still uses it to announce its presence from time to time.Īn arrow will sometimes appear on the menu bar, such as when Safari or the Weather widget on the Today pane needs to update itself. Let’s turn to the next item in the Personal row, Security & Privacy. That’s the extent of Language & Region’s influence on the menu bar.
Everything in red will let you add an icon to the menu bar. Anything enclosed with a red square has an option to add a menu bar icon, some even allow for further customization. These are our System Preferences as they appear on an early 2014 Macbook Air running Yosemite (10.10.3). If you didn’t mean to do that, or want it back, then here’s how to restore it. If you drag one out of the menu bar it will be removed. It’s helpful to know all about these because if you hold the “Command” key down, you can move and rearrange them. This includes not only the things we’ve already mentioned, but all the other preference menu bar items we could find. In this article, we’re going to show and talk about all the different things you can add to the menu bar using only what you’ll find in the system preferences. In fact, many of the System Preferences have icons you can add, and many applications will also use the menu bar so users have convenient access to features and functions. You can easily check your Mac’s energy status (particularly helpful if you’re using a laptop), or you can start Time Machine backups, or log into another account with fast user switching, etc. Today, the menu bar lets you add all kinds of extra functionality to it.
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