My workflow took a picture of OneDrive’s stagnant menu bar icon and any time the icon displays the little circular update icon, Bartender shows the menu bar icon in the menu bar. OneDrive is a hog of an app - it’s always one of the most RAM-hungry apps on my Mac and it’s constantly sucking immense amounts of power. This is the definition of “There when you need it, gone when you don’t.”įor example, I have a workflow setup for Microsoft OneDrive’s menu bar icon. This is immensely useful - if any menu bar app is sitting idle, it can be hidden, but if it’s working, it can be shown. If it changes back to the default icon, it’s hidden again. If the icon changes, Bartender will reveal the icon in the vacant menu bar space. In Show For Updates, you can provide a little snapshot of a menu bar icon and Bartender will track that menu bar icon for changes. Perhaps my favorite part of Bartender’s (surprisingly) long feature list is Show For Updates. For notched MacBook Pros, you can set Bartender to only use the icon tray if you are working on a notched display if you are working on an external display with no notch, Bartender will show hidden icons in the vacant space rather than in the tray. Bartender 4 displays hidden menu bar icons in the vacant space in your menu bar, but you can select an option to use that old-style icon tray if you choose. My understanding is former versions of Bartender hid menu bar icons in a little “tray” that displayed below the menu bar if you clicked on the “…” ellipses button now. You can also drop the amount of space between icons if you want to squeeze even more icons into the hidden space. You can ensure specific icons are always visible, other icons always hidden, and you can put spacers between icons to provide breathing room.

Bartender cleans them all up and brings your focus to what you’re working on.īartender provides other customization options to fit your needs. If the notch wasn’t distracting to you, those untidy menu bar icons are sure to distract you. On a notched MacBook Pro, the difference is incredible. Now with Bartender 4, you simply have to hover your mouse in the vacant menu bar space and all your icons will magically appear. Formerly, you’d have to click on the ellipses button to reveal all the hidden menu bar icons.

That ellipses button cleans up your menu bar and still provides immediate access to any menu bar button in an instant. Bartender is a Must-Have Appīartender 4 takes all your menu bar icons and hides them behind an “…” ellipses button. Me? I didn’t have any use for Bartender until the notched MacBook Pro.

Bartender has been around for years already - many folks may already fully understand the app’s utility. The best way to deal with the notch is to use Bartender 4. I appreciate the trade-offs for what they are - in that I prefer having a notch and a better onboard camera instead of no notch and a poorer camera.īut you have to deal with the notch. Perhaps I was a notch apologist.īut yes, the notch is there. Perhaps I was distracted by the M1 Pro MacBook Pro’s blazing speed or stunning display. I didn’t notice it in the first few weeks. Only now do I feel like I’m gaining insight on how this device has altered my daily life. It takes a few months of use to gain perspective over any product, and this is especially so with the MacBook Pro. If we were discuss them relative to one another, I think more words have been spilled on the MacBook Pro’s notch. The iPhone is a much more popular product than the MacBook Pro, so naturally the discussion around the iPhone X’s notch was much larger than the discussion around the MacBook Pro’s notch.

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