Icons are not visible behind the notch on MacBooks and this is certainly a bug, I know that I can use Bartender, but paying $40 for fixing a MacOs bug is just ridiculous.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.2
The screen resolution shareware app, SwitchResX, has settings that make the notch go away.
It does this by offsetting the screen top, lowering it, thus reducing total pixels. But that's not noticeable to me.
Several times I've sent a q. by e-mail to Stephan Madrau, and he gets back in less than a day!
That app has so many more features that I don't use, it's for customizing multiple-monitor displays, among other things.
Vedmant wrote:
Icons are not visible behind the notch on MacBooks and this is certainly a bug, I know that I can use Bartender, but paying $40 for fixing a MacOs bug is just ridiculous.
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I don't see it as a bug... there is only so much space available in the menu bar.
You can have less icons on the Menu bar so you are not crowding out the ones you want to see...
or make a change:
How to adjust an app's settings to appear below the ...
What’s in the menu bar on Mac? - Apple Support
So user runs the app when the functionality can be accessed only from the top bar icon, but it's not visible and there is no indication that's it's hidden due the notch. This is certainly a bug. Or you can call it an "Apple feature".
Reducing scree height is not a good solution either, quite some screen real estate is lost.
Icons are not visible behind the notch on MacBooks with notches
