After upgrading to Sonoma, menu bar uses light appearance regardless of system theme settings. I prefer to use dark theme. Is this intentional? Previously, the menu bar was respecting the dark color theme.
MacBook Pro 16âł, macOS 14.0
> System Settings, click Accessibility 
in the sidebar, then click Display on the right. (You may need to scroll down.) > System Settings, click Accessibility in the sidebar, then click Display on the right. (You may need to scroll down.)The menu bar is translucent and shows through whatever the background image happens to be. It is not tied to light and dark mode.
The best way to change it IMO, is going to system settings -> wallpaper -> scroll down to colors. From there, you can change it to any color you like. Black, pink, yellow, almost anything.
IMO, having a bright white menu bar in dark mode as soon as you reboot your machine is simply a bad user experience, and bad engineering on Apple's part, regardless of the reason. If macOS is going to use a translucent menu bar like that, then it should have separate dark mode and light mode desktop wallpapers for each OS version so that it behaves sensibly on first install.
That said, at least it is easy to fix. I was seriously thinking about rolling back my whole OS install.
Oh boy đ I got pranked by the default Sonoma Horizon wallpaper. You're right đ Thanks!
Thank you...this did it đ
Youâre welcome
I upgraded to Sonoma on my MacBook Pro, I selected dark mode, and the menu bar on my laptop monitor is black, while on the second monitor is white, so the possibility of having the dark menu bar on a light wallpaper exists but for some reason it does not work properly, so I guess this is a bug.
Menu bar stays light in dark mode
