In Mac OS X 10.5, the AirPort icon in the menu bar had a trick up its sleeve—hold down Option when clicking the icon, and you’d see more information about the various available AirPort networks. In ...

The Menu Bar along the top of your Mac’s screen is a handy place. Here you’ll find system icons related to features and functions such as the Notification Center, Wi-Fi, and Battery (if on a MacBook), ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Mac menu bar is iconic. With the Apple logo in the top-left ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. I live in a small, cramped apartment in a big ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. If there's something you want to keep track of regularly, it belongs on your Mac's menu bar. The left side of the menu ...

With macOS 26, aka Tahoe, Apple has not only polished up the look and feel of its Mac operating system in the Liquid Glass design, but has also tweaked a whole range of operating areas. This also ...

Windows Media Player 12 hides the top menu bar by default, because common functions are available in other areas of the media library. If another user enabled the menu bar, hiding it again conserves ...

The menu bar in macOS is a system element that runs along the top edge of the screen. It consists of the Apple menu in the leftmost corner, the app menus in the middle, and the status menus on the top ...

iPadOS 19 will be unveiled right about six weeks from now, not too far off at all. And one rumored addition, a Mac-style menu bar, is set to upgrade iPad productivity in several ways—including one ...

Apple today revealed an overhaul of iPad multitasking, introducing a completely new windowing system, a macOS-style Menu Bar, a pointer, and more. The centerpiece of the multitasking improvements is a ...