Ever since the macOS 26 update the status bar doesn't show anymore in the Music app. There's no way to see how many songs are selected or the duration of multiple selected songs. The option to show/hide the status bar is still in the menu, it just doesn't do anything now. Is this a bug? An oversight? Is the status bar being removed but they forgot to remove the menu option to show/hide it?
MacBook Air
you can’t view the MB of a playlist without the status bar. That feature of iTunes was left out of the Music app for some unexplained reason. Many of us have music on our devices. You can’t manage it very easily without that status bar showing not only the number of songs, but the amount of memory it’s going to consume when you sync a device to your Mac music library.
please give Apple feedback here: Feedback - Apple Music - Apple
be clear and constructive. Tell them to put this feature back in.
you can’t view the MB of a playlist without the status bar. That feature of iTunes was left out of the Music app for some unexplained reason. Many of us have music on our devices. You can’t manage it very easily without that status bar showing not only the number of songs, but the amount of memory it’s going to consume when you sync a device to your Mac music library.
please give Apple feedback here: Feedback - Apple Music - Apple
be clear and constructive. Tell them to put this feature back in.
I figured it out. I clicked on the drop arrow adjacent to the Sync Library is off message, and it led me to a screen where I could Hide the Sync warning, and that brought back the Status Bar, and I could toggle it off and on again in the View menu.
Posting again so the whole thread might get notified of this:
I figured it out. I clicked on the drop arrow or maybe it was the LEARN MORE button adjacent to the Sync Library is off message, and it led me to a screen where I could Hide the Sync warning, and that brought back the Status Bar, and I could toggle it off and on again in the View menu.
I found that when you go to a playlist, the status bar doesn't show up until you scroll down a little. It turns on. Scroll down to about 1/2 the playlist artwork is hidden at the top and it'll show up.
Apple - please fix this so that nothing hides the status bar.
This does not work in the "Home" screen. The menu item is grayed out and the Mac yells at me when I type cmd+/
If I go to a playlist, the menu item is visible and pressing cmd+/ does't honk at me, but the status bar stays visible.
I can’t provide a screenshot because the original message is gone. On the upper left, there was a message that said:
"Sync Library is Off, Learn More."
If you don’t have that message, then provide a screenshot of what you do see in the upper left.
I clicked on Learn More, and followed the prompts in the new pop-up window, but don’t remember exactly what they were. Since I don’t want to sync the library, whatever options allowed me to keep sync off and dismiss the pop-up window is what made the message “Sync Library is Off, Learn More” go away, and in its place the status bar containing song count and all that reappeared. Do you have that message..?
Do you see the screenshot in this thread from timotylance...? That is it, but I've attached mine too so you can see the sidebar.
Notice he is in Songs view, not Home, Songs in the left sidebar under your Library. If you still don't see anything in that space up top, have you tried going to the View menu and look for the Show Status Bar or Hide Status Bar is selected..? I'm off to move snow for a while, back this evening.
In the Music app, when you have selected an item in the Library or Playlist section of the sidebar, you'll find (should find) the Status Bar at the bottom edge of the main panel to the right.
Use the keys ⌘/ to show or hide the Status Bar.
Not sure I follow. Where else do you want it..? I can see it in Albums view, Artist View, Song View, Genres, and in each playlist. In a playlist you have to scroll down just a touch past the album artwork image at the top before it shows up, or there is a song total at the very end of a playlist too. Personally I only use Songs or Albums view, and playlists quite a lot. Is there something else you are trying to do..?
Yes I now see the ‘status bar’ but only in ‘songs’ view - nowhere useful in other words…
On mine, under "Songs," it reads "Sync Library is Off, Learn More." That's because I don't have my library synced and don't want it to be. If I were to sync my library, would that line be replaced by the number of songs? I really hate this. Why Apple chose to make it so hard is really difficult to understand.
Same here.
Regardless whether the status bar is toggled on or off ... it just doesn't show!
How will I know how long a playlist is or how many files I have selected in a long playlist?
Please bring this back, Apple!
If you select View > Hide Staus bar, you will see where it is located in the new window.
It is along the top left hand side.
No it isn’t.
The Status Bar isn't there
Where is the status bar on the macOS Music app?
