Time Machine NOT in Menu Bar with Sonoma

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Tek_Nomad Author

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Time Machine NOT in Menu Bar with Sonoma

No matter what I do, I cannot get the Time Machine symbol to show in the menu bar with Sonoma 14.2.1.

• Yes, I have enabled “show in menu bar” in the System Settings Control Center—numerous times!

• Have used Disk First Aid on all disks including a new backup disk.

• I have rebooted the MB Pro.

NOTHING that I have done seems to help!

How can I get into Time Machine or at least have the symbol show in the Menu Bar?

Many people seem to be having the same problem.

Assistance would be very much appreciated!

MacBook Pro 13″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Mar 14, 2024 10:21 AM

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Answer 1

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Tek_Nomad Author

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Mar 14, 2024 12:21 PM in response to dialabrain

Yes, thank you very much!

I did update to Sonoma 14.4. (It took a while.) That did the trick!

Strange that I got no prompt because I had “Automatic Updates” on.

Evidently, this was a bug because I have seen many other people having the same problem.

I appreciate your assistance and feel rather foolish that I didn’t check this out myself. 🥴

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Answer 2

dialabrain

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Mar 14, 2024 10:33 AM in response to Tek_Nomad

Try updating to the 14.4 version of Sonoma.

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Answer 3

Apr 23, 2024 4:12 PM in response to Tek_Nomad

Actually the easy way is go to Control Centre, scroll right down to Menu bar only go time Machine there is a toggle button that will say show in menu bar. Toggle it on and off and it should show up. Caveat: This was a problem I was having with Sonoma Beta 14.5 but maybe pre Update as hadn't backed up for a while.

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dialabrain

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Mar 14, 2024 12:02 PM in response to Tek_Nomad

FWIW, dragging the app into the Dock would not make it show in the Menu Bar. Do have a lot of third-party apps that do show in the Menu Bar? It's possible there isn't space left to show the Time Machine icon.

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Answer 5

Ronasara

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Mar 14, 2024 10:40 AM in response to Tek_Nomad

The easy solution should be to open the Applications folder and then drag the Time Machine icon down to the menu bar. That should create an alias there which you can use to open the app.

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