Currently, I have only four third-party items shown in my menu bar, but I’m aware that some users have many more. The other is for third-party menu bar additions to be able to add themselves to the controls here. One is the ability to customise and control the order of items shown in the menu bar, which doesn’t currently appear possible. There are two features which I’d like to see in the Dock & Menu Bar pane in the future. Although some users may wish to monitor access to Location Services, many don’t, and the Dock & Menu Bar controls should allow this behaviour to be muted. One annoying menu bar item which Big Sur still fails to control is the Location Services icon which appears sporadically at the start of the right menu bar items. This pane also doesn’t yet control the inclusion of the Input menu in the menu bar, for which you still have to open the Input Sources tab in the Keyboard pane, which needs to be moved into a new item in the Dock & Menu Bar pane. For example, Now Playing is always included in the Control Centre, although I suspect a great many macOS users hardly ever use this feature, making it a waste of space. I’m shocked that this most obvious of bugs has persisted for so long, when every Apple engineer and employee who uses a Mac must notice this pretty well every day.ĭock & Menu Bar controls are also too inflexible in some respects. To obtain current estimates, you have to open the Bluetooth item a second time. As I’ve already pointed out, when you open this item it invariably shows not the current charge levels for Apple’s wireless input devices, but the levels when they were last checked. Not only that, but that latter control extends too far, for example changing the time format used when obtaining log extracts using the log show command, which is surely another bug.Īnother bug has persisted in the Bluetooth menu bar control. If you want to switch between 12- and 24-hour clock format, you have to switch to the General tab in the Language & Region pane, where the Time format box is the determinant of what’s shown in the menu bar clock. It doesn’t matter whether you tick or uncheck the Use a 24-hour clock box, or the Show am/pm box below it, as those don’t appear to have any effect. One example are its controls for the menu bar clock. In 11.2.3, it appears to have been abandoned incomplete and dysfunctional. With the Big Sur 11.3 update growing increasingly imminent, there are several areas which I’m hoping it will attend to, among them the extended Dock & Menu Bar pane in System Preferences.
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