Clock and battery indicator gone

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Clock and battery indicator gone

Hey, I finally updated to OS X El Capitan last night. Everything is going great overall, I love the new features and the whole system runs much faster. The only problem I am having is that since I updated the clock and battery indicator are no longer visible in the status bar at the top of my screen. Anybody else have a similar issue or know how to get them back? I'm running it on my early 2013 13" Macbook Pro Retina. Thanks

Side note, is there a way to post images here? This is my first post so I'm new to how this whole thing works and I'd like to post a screenshot of what is currently showing on the status bar.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Feb 5, 2016 6:57 PM

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Duane

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Feb 5, 2016 7:48 PM in response to JforemanMusic

Have you went to System Preferences -> Energy Saver and ensured that the option to show battery status is enabled?

Have you went to System Preferences -> Date & Time -> Clock and ensured that the option to show the date & time in the menu bar is enabled?

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Feb 5, 2016 7:48 PM in response to JforemanMusic

JforemanMusic, yes there is a way to get the clock and battery indicators back on the menu bar. For the clock go to system preferences and load the Date & Time preference. There are 3 tabs at the top. Click on the Clock tab and you have the options to show the clock on the menu bar. For the Battery indicator go to the Energy Saver preference pane and look for the checkbox at the bottom.

Paul

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Answer 3

Feb 5, 2016 7:49 PM in response to Duane

That did it. I don't know why I didn't think to look there. I wonder why it defaulted to that setting when I did the update. When I updated to Mavericks and Yosemite it didn't change, weird. Thanks for the response, I really appreciate it!

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