![]() The last step is to drag the menu bar items up into your group. In creating a menu bar item group, I think it’s handy to switch on the toggle that enables you to simply hover over the icon for your group to instantly reveal the contents. I can actually tell it apart from all the other icons! In the emoji picker, I searched for graph and found a colorful bar graph that’s perfect for my iStat Menus group. Making them a group is the perfect solution. I really like iStat Menus from Bjango, but there are so many nifty graphs to monitor about my system that they end up taking up a lot of space in my menu bar. The real fun comes if you choose the emoji button instead of adding text. For that reason, I don’t choose any of the SF symbols for my menu bar item groups. All menu bar icons are black and white now, and I think it makes it significantly harder to tell them apart. The icon options are from what are called SF Symbols, which are those tiny black-and-white graphics. If you drag the add menu bar item group lozenge up into the shown or hidden bar, you’ll get a new window, allowing you to customize this group.įirst, you get to create the icon, and/or title you would like to have for your group. Below, you’ll find the menu bar items palette in which you’ll find two little lozenges: “Add a spacer” and “Add menu bar item group”. You drag and drop the menubar icons up and down between those three sections. When you open Bartender to the Menu Bar Items tab, you’ll see the familiar shown, hidden, and always hidden sections. This would probably be more clear with an example. With groups you can have a single icon that’s always visible, or in the Bartender bar, but when you hover (or click) on the icon you get a little dropdown of just the items in that group. To see the secondary menu bar (also called the Bartender bar), you can choose to have it show when you hover over the empty space in your menu bar or when you click on the Bartender icon.īartender 5 now allows you to create menu bar item groups. It’s also a critical tool if you’re using a laptop with limited screen real estate. You may also have apps that have menu bar icons but you simply never view the apps in this way, and Bartender lets you keep those always hidden.īy hiding things you don’t need often, Bartender reduces confusion in the main menu bar. Menu Bar Item Groupsīartender’s main purpose in life is to let you have a secondary menu bar to hold the menu bar items you don’t need to access as frequently. Now that we have the pricing out of the way, let’s talk about the cool new features. ![]() In this day and age of subscription pricing, it’s refreshing, isn’t it? ![]() If you don’t yet own Bartender, it’s only $16 and comes with a four-week free trial. If you already own Bartender 4, you’ll be eligible for upgrade pricing and if you bought it from July 2022 then you get a free upgrade. If you are already a Bartender fan and you have not yet upgraded to macOS Sonoma, it’s important to know that Bartender 4 does not run under Sonoma. In 2021 Bartender 4 was a huge step forward, and now in 2023 we have the newly released Bartender 5 from. Over the last 9 years, Bartender just gets better and better. It also has a warm place in my heart because it reminds me of the gone-too-soon Tim Verpoorten on the MacReviewcast when he told us about so many awesome menu bar apps that he said someone should invent a menu bar app to manage them. When I do my annual nuke and pave, Bartender is in the top list of critical apps I install first. I think the first time I talked about the wonderful menu bar app organizer, Bartender, was in January of 2014.
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