If you start accumulating menu-bar apps, you'll need an app to keep them organized. Bartender 2 is that app. It basically provides a second menu bar for when your Mac's menu bar starts to feel. Mar 29, 2019 You can hide your Mac's menu bar from the System Preferences menu. The menu bar will hide itself, and will appear when you move your cursor to the top of the screen. You can also do the same with your Dock so that you get a clear view of your background when you're not using them.
Once upon a time, every window on a Mac desktop had big, easy-to-click and impossible-to-miss scroll bars that never, ever disappeared.
Since 2011’s “Lion” update to Mac OS X, however, Apple has adopted an “barely there” policy when it comes to scroll bars.
Indeed, scroll bars on the Mac are now just as wafer-thin as they are on the iPhone and iPad—and in some cases, they may disappear completely when you’re not actively scrolling.
Luckily, it’s easy to get those scroll bars back—not the old, larger versions, mind you, but at least you can keep the Mac’s new, skinny-mini scroll bars visible at all times.
How To Get App Bar Back On Mac
Here’s how:
- Click the Apple menu at the top-left of the screen, then select System Preferences.
- Next, select the General preferences pane; it’s the very first one, up at the top.
- Under the “Show scroll bars” heading, you’ll find three options: “Automatically based on input device,” “When scrolling,” and “Always.”
- Go ahead and select that last “Always” option. You’re done!
Bonus tip
Wish you could get the missing scroll bar buttons back, too? You can’t, unfortunately, but you can always use your arrow keys for precision scrolling.
