Welcome to Product Support, a column devoted to helping you get the most out of the gadgets and software you already use. Whether you’re a long-time Mac user or somebody acclimating to their first, ...

Apple has added a new toggle to show the menu bar background in macOS Tahoe 26 beta 2. The option was added after beta 1 arrived with no menu bar background and no toggle to restore it. The new option ...

In macOS Tahoe Beta 2, Apple included a new option to add a background to the menu bar, making it possible to have a menu bar design that’s similar to the menu bar in macOS Sequoia. As part of ‌macOS ...

I've been a Mac user for ages, but I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore user. There are so many things people use their Macs for, such as coding, editing 8K footage, cleaning up RAW shoots, and so on ...

iPadOS 19 will be unveiled right about six weeks from now, not too far off at all. And one rumored addition, a Mac-style menu bar, is set to upgrade iPad productivity in several ways—including one ...

As someone whose job involves testing and writing about Mac apps, a crowded menu bar is an occupational hazard. Until its ownership change last year, my go-to recommendation for tidying up your menu ...

Today, we’re diving into a topic that every programmer working with long-running tasks will appreciate: progress bars in Python! Whether you’re processing large datasets or running computationally ...

If you prefer using the macOS menu bar, you can replicate the same look on Windows 11. With the Droptop Four Rainmeter skin, you can get a macOS-like menu bar on Windows 11. Apart from that, you can ...

Windows Media Player 12 hides the top menu bar by default, because common functions are available in other areas of the media library. If another user enabled the menu bar, hiding it again conserves ...

Adobe Acrobat can customize the window that appears when a user opens your portable document format document. By default, all PDFs open in the standard PDF-viewing window with a menu bar, toolbar and ...

Like the status bar on your iPhone, the menu bar on your Mac has probably gotten cluttered over time. Even if you use menu bar management apps that reduce the clutter, you'll still be forced to view ...