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by InitialBP 223 days ago
New macbooks with a notch hide icons underneath of the notch and those icons are completely inaccessible without installing 3rd party software to manage your status bar, or turning off a bunch of other software with visible icons on your bar.

IMO that's a far worse UX than update and shutdown turning the computer back on at the end.
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mschuster91 223 days ago
In a pinch you can reduce the spacing between items [1]. The default of macOS is ridiculously large.

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/406316/can-the-spa...

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Groxx 223 days ago
you can finally set a screen resolution that just stays below the notch! I'm not sure when that became available, but I just used it a couple weeks ago.
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ValentineC 222 days ago
The sad thing about the current state of macOS is that I'd rather install an app to manage the menu bar than upgrade to the liquid glass monstrosity that is macOS Tahoe.

(I'm also not an early adopter. I only went to Sequoia from Ventura a few months ago.)

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Groxx 220 days ago
in case this implies you haven't found it: it's a feature in Sequoia :) it's just in display settings, though you may have to turn on the "show all resolutions" toggle to show it.

I haven't used Tahoe personally for more than a moment on someone else's computer, but wow they did not think that UI redesign through at all, did they. I'm actually kinda glad I'm mac-less now.

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