


#I have lost my menu bar on mac how to#
Why did Apple choose to have a default that was lower contrast for something that’s arguably the most useful of all the elements on the right side of the menu bar? A darn good question! HOW TO CUSTOMIZE THE TIME DISPLAY ON YOUR MENU BAR Now I like the new Notifications center quite a bit and having it be something you can launch from a big target like the time display is a definite improvement over MacOS X Catalina, but how do you get to the settings?Īfter much experimentation and poking about I have actually found out how to increase the contrast on the time displayed on the menu bar! Let’s start with the related question of how to change what is displayed, then we can talk about how to increase that contrast to make it more readable too.įor reference, here’s the default menu bar time display on my MacOS 11 Big Sur MacBook: In fact, it has changed completely, going from being a link to Date & Time system preference to being the button the launches the Notifications window. The time display in the menu bar isn’t even controlled from there anymore. I thought perhaps I could find a setting somewhere to fix it in the Date and Time but… no.

That’s one of the first things I noticed when I installed MacOS 11 Big Sur on my Mac system too, actually: the time display on the menu bar had mysteriously become quite a bit fainter.
