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Hi All
Is there any way to remove the menu bar clock in BigSur?
In System Preferences under Date & Time, the clock tab is missing.
In System Preferences under Dock & Menu Bar I can't seem to do more than to minimize the clock by using the Analogue option, but cannot remove it entirely.
Has this function been moved elsewhere, has it been removed or is this a bug?
Thanks for any help whatsoever.
rOcKpApErScIsSoRs
Good tip actually, rOck, thanks for pointing that out, I always hid the Apple menubar clock, since I use a 3rd party app called The Clock, and it was driving me nuts trying to turn off Apple's clock. Making it into the tiny analog will suffice for now, until someone figures out a Terminal command or something to remove it.
For those wanting to know how to toggle Apple's Clock from digital to analog:
System Pref: Dock & Menu Bar: Clock (near bottom), Time Options: Analog
Good tip actually, rOck, thanks for pointing that out, I always hid the Apple menubar clock, since I use a 3rd party app called The Clock, and it was driving me nuts trying to turn off Apple's clock. Making it into the tiny analog will suffice for now, until someone figures out a Terminal command or something to remove it.
For those wanting to know how to toggle Apple's Clock from digital to analog:
System Pref: Dock & Menu Bar: Clock (near bottom), Time Options: Analog
Yes and no. If you want to completely remove date and time, no. However you can modify and personalize your date and time appearance under "Dock and Menu Bar" panel in System Preferences and searching for "date" or "clock".
Is Do Not Disturb turned off? The only other place I can think you could look is in System Preferences > Notifications > Do Not Disturb. Maybe you have DND scheduled to be on automatically during the day, or perhaps if you are connected to a TV and have "when mirroring to TVs and projectors" checked. ??
All options within DND are turned off.
Thank you for your response.
I've decided I'm wasting too much time with this non-issue so I have reduced the clock to the analogue icon on the menu bar and will ignore it.
I wonder if you realized you have to click on the time, not just the menu bar, in order for it to change to black. It's still a bit awkward for me as I attempt to keep DND off all of the time (basically impossible as far as I can tell). So, I have to click the time once in order to read it and another time to turn DND back off. But, it works.
Thanks for the advice
I've clicked on the time icon on the menu bar, whilst pressing the alt-key as suggested, but the clock icon remains white.
Is there a setting that needs to be changed to allow the clock to change to black?
Ha! You're lucky. White is sooo much better than shades of gray.
I have multiple computers. One has a gray menu bar which has the grey clock, the other has a coloured menu bar and a white clock! I have no idea why they are different! The only hint I have, so far, is that the coloured menu bar is because it is transparent (it stays the color of the background).
The only way the alt-click works is on the gray background.
Yes it is, old toad. If you don't use dark mode, most of the gray text that apple uses goes away. I guess it doesn't work in Dark Mode. It also doesn't work on the clock. All of the pop-up menus and sidebars seem to go black. But, the clock stays gray no matter whether DND is on or not. Weird.
Weird, weird side-effects, though. Now I have disappearing favorites on Safari! Some of them just don't show unless you pass your cursor over them.
Note that this is using M1. I'm not sure of the other mac's.
Old Toad, that's a brilliant design stroke: adding a vertical line glyph and a few (3?) empty spaces before each bookmark name and folder. Very cool idea. I just did that to my well-organized bookmarks (a combo of single sites and folders) and it really adds some nice clarity. Thanks for posting this.
(the vertical line glyph is right below the right-side Delete button, for those who rarely use it!)
rOcKpApErScIsSoRs wrote:
Is there any way to remove the menu bar clock in BigSur?
No. Plus it's now used to enable the Notification Center instead of an icon.
if you hold down ⌥ and click on the menu bar clock it toggles between grey and black.
Mine are not grey.
Use the Dark Mode with Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast enabled and you'll get this which is easy to read:
Use the Dark Mode with Reduced Transparency and Increase Contrast and the clock will be much more readable:
Removing clock from the Menu Bar in BigSur
