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Yesterday I opened my Mac to find all of the app icons in taskbar, I can’t move or remove them. Also an icon showed up at the top right of my screen. It is random. I don’t know what it is. And I can’t remove it or open it. Someone said I should run bash. can you tell me if I need to do that and how to do it
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MacBook Air 13″, 15.1
To be clear, the bar with icons at the top of the Mac screen is the Menu bar.
The Menu bar may have icons related to underlying System Settings panels or other utilities like BlueTooth and Wi-Fi. It may also have Data & Time info, User account. Some apps like malware scanners, printer drivers and such may also post an icon in the Menu bar.
If you click a Menu bar icon you will usually find some clue to what it is for. If you Option-click (⌥ click)a Menu bar icon you may find different clues, sometime for quitting the responsible app or removing the icon from the Menu bar. If you Command-click (⌘click) an icon you can drag it to a different position.
Guidance for using the Menu bar is here: What’s in the menu bar on Mac? - Apple Support
The row of application icons at the bottom of the screen is the Dock.
The Dock can be customized by following the guidance found here: Use the Dock on Mac - Apple Support
Re: the icon at the top right corner of you Mac: if you right-click it and select Get Info, what do you find as Kind?
I would recommend that you not start messing about in Terminal unless it's the last resort. It's far too easy to cause yourself significant problems if you aren't careful and don't know exactly what you're doing. Presuming you're referring to the Dock, the bar at the bottom of your screen showing your apps, what happens if you control-click on an icon and select Options -> Remove from Dock? Note that you can't directly remove from the Dock the icon for a running app.
If the option above doesn't help, have you tried just restarting your Mac?
Regards.
To further clarify (or complicate) matters, I should also add that applications themselves may have a Toolbar, a.k.a. Taskbar. This toolbar may be customized and individualized by the user to present icons specific to the application's features most used by the user.
Generally speaking, to customize a toolbar by adding or removing feature icons, one would right-click the toolbar and select Customize Toolbar...
The point is, it's important to know and use the proper terminology when asking for help. Details matter.
Try and drag the icons from your dock back to the trash can do delete them
Thank you for your reply, but that is one of the issues I mentioned in my post - I can’t move or trash.
someone told me to use terminal but I don’t know what to do once I’m there.
How do I move/remove app icons in taskbar on my MacBook Air?
