How do I remove the "now playing" section from the Control Center in the menu bar.
I am running Monterey 12.0.1. In the "now playing" section (which I think is worthless) in the drop down of the Control Center, I cannot clear the title of the last video played in Safari this morning. I just now noticed this when I was looking to activate screen mirroring. I went into System preferences in order to disable it in Dock and Menu Bar, unchecked the option on the side menu, but the title of the video was still visible. The only way I was able to clear it was to clear the cache of Safari - in which case I lose my browsing history - not the most efficient way to do this. After it cleared, my Music icon player took over when I was not even using it. Why is this even necessary? These features (sound, airplay, brightness etc) are in three different places: the menu bar, the control center and the touch bar. Four places if you have Music open; the controls are there as well. I would really love to be able to disable the individual control center options but I cannot seem to. Is there a more elegant (simple) solution to clearing the play history under the Sound section?
MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11