Items hidden by notch

AlexK87 wrote:

Thanks for the info, but is there no way to do this without an external app? I mean, how did Apple plan to handle this - I'm sure many many users have this problem.

I'll try with Bartender but I'm pretty uncomfortable as to the set of permissions it asks for...

Apple does not plan for a lot of Right Side icons.

Well the hardware engineers may not be taking into consideration all the software issues. Left hand not knowing what the Right hand is doing, and how that will impact every user in every situation.

As I said, you can find some 3rd party solutions besides Bartender, some of them free. I just choose Bartender after trying to get away with free, and decided the $15 was worth it.

And I use 2 external monitors (one 32" 4K) which is not a problem, but I also still use my laptop screen and if I turn off Bartender, I have some thing that looks like this:

This is 32" 4K monitor

This is the same menu bar on the 14" MacBook Pro (the place where this list of icons ends, is where the Notch begins:

And this is the exact same 14" MacBook Pro with Bartender running

This is the 14" MacBook Pro with the Bartender drop down menu of all the additional icons. I just click on a blank spot on the menu bar, and the drop down appears.

We are just users, same as you. We cannot tell you exactly why something is the way it is.

But in this case, we can give you some suggestions on how to have lots of icons on the Right side.

Personally, I purchased the Bartender app.

https://www.macbartender.com/

I just had too many Right side icons to deal with.

And I previously got into situations, before the Notch, when the Right side icons extended into the menus of an app that used a lot of Left side menu space.

It got to be too much, and I did not want to give up most of my Left side icons (and i did try cutting back), so I decided to pay for Bartender.

There are other apps that will do similar things, some for free, but I found Bartender worked best for me.

Bartender has been on the mac for a looong time. It is a respected application by a respected developer.

In the old days, it still needed the same type of access, the only difference is that now macOS requires the user to explicitly give permission to do a lot of things. There is nothing to worry, it is just additional security to guarantee that an application can only do what you allow it to.

Bartender, as suggested, is a good idea.

Also, while it may not be ideal, these items can still be clicked on, even when they hidden behind the notch.