How to see menubar items under the notch?

No, because Apple has apparently decided that menubar icons can only exist on the right side of the notch.

Here is the situation, I have two OneDrive accounts, TextExpander, Drobo Dashboard, MacUpdater, ScanSnap Manager, Timing, Fantastical, iTranslate, and a few other apps that solely exist in the menubar. You can reach a point where they are no longer visible. It does not matter how much space you free up on the left side of the notch. It's like behind the notch stands Gandalf and none shall pass.

For me, it is really a minor annoyance and one easily resolved once I am connected back to my external display. As someone who has used Apple computers since 1979, this just seems like an odd design decision. Kind of like the iMac puck mouse. Bartender solves the problem nicely without making me shove TimeMachine and everything into Control Center, which would also be fine and which I had already done.

That appears to be how the OS is handling it. I've noticed that it will dynamically adjust the spacing of the menubar icons on the right side of the notch, but there is a point that goes too far and then you are just stuck with not seeing them. Bartender is a solution for managing it. I have no relation to the developer. I never used the app until today and have been testing it and it seems a viable alternative for now. I have an Apple developer account, so I can submit feedback there. I just happened across this thread while I was looking for a solution myself.

I have a number of menubar items as well, and the dynamic way the OS decides to shuffle them around is a little annoying. Usually, I have my MacBook docked and I use an external display, so it isn't going to be a huge problem. When I am traveling and don't have my external screen, it's annoying. I'm not sure who thought putting a notch in a laptop display was a good idea. My temp solution has been to use SwitchResX to change the display resolution so they all fit. I think there are also a few decent resolution switchers on the MacApp store as well that would do the job. Kind of a crappy workaround. I think another alternative would be Bartender.

I have this problem with My MBP M1 Max with the notch. This has nothing at all to do with app settings, as people keep insisting on, this is an problem with the MacOS operating system, which does not prevent icons in the Apple System menu bar from occupying real estate behind the notch. Apple proudly touted the fact that the notch only took some real estate from the menu bar, but they did not implement this correctly.

Unfortunately, when the icons are hidden behind the notch, they cannot be accessed. I observed this when I changed the display resolution from the default hi-res to scaled. Immediately, 3 icons disappeared behind the notch. So I changed back to default hi-res display, and all was well... until something on the right side of the menu bar expanded, and one of my icons again disappeared behind the notch. The Mac OS needs to know not to allow the icons to occupy that space. 2 lines of code at most.

you can use this article. Check one box per troublesome app, and the visible area will be scaled to fit in a slightly-smaller area that is clear of the notch:

How to adjust an app's settings to appear below the camera area on your 14-inch or 16-inch MacBook Pro - Apple Support

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Every App has a Menubar. when you run an App and its stuff on the menubar collides with the notch, check the checkbox and re-launch the App and its Menubar will be drawn further down the screen. Everything, including haxies that have icons in the menubar will then be visible.

why are you not using the solution Apple proposed?

How to adjust an app's settings to appear below the camera area on your 14-inch or 16-inch MacBook Pro - Apple Support

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What I think you're missing is that it seems it only redraws below the notch if the application's menu items would extend behind the notch. The OS doesn't seem to care about menubar items themselves.

At this point I think I'd recognize that users here, that are just like you, trying to fully utilize a very new feature should contact Apple directly for help if there is an issue.

if the app redraws the menubar LOWER than the notch, then your add-ons draw their Icons, they should be visible because the ENTIRE menubar should be drawn below the notch, with space for your add-ons.

What am I missing? Can you post a screen shot with an App that has the checkbox checked?

Also, you can't select that option for Apple Mail, Safari, etc. And it has no effect if an application's menus do not extend to the menu bar, but an application like OmniGraffle, which has a lot of menus, might. So far, I have not found an application that has so many menus that they extend beyond the notch on a new 16" MBP.

So what you are saying is that checkbox only re-draws the Menubar when required because the App's own menus sprawl beneath the notch, and Does NOT re-draw and Does NOT protect any add-on menubar items (typically drawn on the right-hand side of the Menubar) that are provided by anything other than the running App.

That sounds like a note to Apple Product feedback would be appropriate:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/

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Because it is not related to this issue!

I honestly do not understand. It seems to me that the Apple solution would re-draw the menuBar below the notch, allowing all icons to be shown.

What am I missing here?