Comments on: How to Remove Icons from the Menu Bar in Mac OS X

By: 4 Essential Menu Bar Utilities for Mac OS X

4 Essential Menu Bar Utilities for Mac OS X — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:15:29 +0000

[...] don’t forget, you can easily remove system menu bar items by command+dragging them out of the menubar, but for third party apps like [...]

By: Art

Art — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:52:40 +0000

After removing a program I got stuck with an unwanted icon. I got writ of it by installing the program again and removing the icon from menu bar from the program’s own preferenses before removing the program again.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:16:47 +0000

I fail to see why Mac users are so anti-right click, I’m a Mac user, but the right click is incredibly useful (and I might add a bloody damn sight more intuitive than the Ctrl+Click crap you long-term Apple fanboys like… how the hell is that intuitive mice got more buttons for a reason!)

If you actually think about why they may made the changes you might’ve realised its to stop people accidentally throwing icons away and wondering where they’ve gone.

Believe it or not Microsoft do actually have some good ideas and Apple also has some bad ones. By taking the best ideas from each other we may actually end up with an operating system that is intuitive, logical and not trying to be a show-pony for what is primarily a filing system and utilities management.

By: kjv007

kjv007 — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:18:42 +0000

how to put it back?

By: RDnMSN

RDnMSN — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:38:20 +0000

How do I remove the “notification” icon in the toolbar. Have Safari 6.0.1 on OS X Mountain Lion. I don’t want other reading my mail through there.

By: Audrey Carney

Audrey Carney — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:25:45 +0000

Hi,
I cannot command click icons out of the top right; doing that wont grab the icon.

By: Cloudane

Cloudane — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:39:55 +0000

It’s gotten worse with Mountain Lion, which added 2 more icons!

Along with iStat Menus (which I genuinely like to use/watch) it’s a right old mess up there.

Once you’ve dragged one off though, how do you get it back if you need it later?

By: Adrian Moore

Adrian Moore — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:14:45 +0000

You can manually remove those stubborn items, by using Activity monitor to locate redundant linked files.

Some menu items end up it Library–>PrivilegedHelperTools

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:59:30 +0000

I think you’re thinking of Broomstick, a free app of mine that lets you hide tons of menubar icons: http://www.zibity.com/broomstick

By: theDaniel

theDaniel — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:36:44 +0000

This feature has been since the beginning on Mac OS X.

In Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) the icons in the Finder window sidebar can no longer dragged out. You have to right/control-click and choose ‘remove from sidebar’ Window-ish style. Apple continuing the “Windowing” of the Mac. Task bar coming in OS X 10.8?

By: EdHarris

EdHarris — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:07:31 +0000

This reminds of the original Mac and the parade of INIT icons across the screen as the Mac started up.

By: Eric Woehler

Eric Woehler — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:46:25 +0000

I seem to recall reading about some software that organises your menu bar items – I don’t recall the name, but from memory, it created a single menu bar item under which all other menu bar items were located (or something similar)? I have had a quick search this morning and don’t have it on my archive of software, nor can I find it in my browser history. Perhaps someone else knows of this software?

By: Vijay Kumar

Vijay Kumar — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:18:37 +0000

Thanks for the wonderful tip.
One related question, how do I put something that I frequently use on the menu bar?

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:17:10 +0000

This reminds me of a rant I went off on back in 2009 ( http://www.thegraphicmac.com/rant-osx-menubar-madness ) about OS X’s menubar. It still drives me crazy.

And unfortunately, Command + Drag doesn’t move 3rd-party menubar icons around anymore.