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Hide menu bar items

Add a divider to the menu bar and collapse every icon to its left.

Is your menu bar crowded with icons? OneNotch adds a divider: every icon to the left of it is collapsed until you click to show them again.

Turn it on

  1. Go to Settings › Utilities › Menu Bar and turn on Hide menu bar items.
  2. A divider and a control button appear in the menu bar. The icons to the left of the divider collapse right away.
The animated preview in Settings › Utilities › Menu Bar, showing ⌘-dragging an icon to the left of the divider

Choose which icons are hidden

Hold ⌘ and drag icons in the menu bar:

  • Drag an icon to the left of the divider to hide it.
  • Drag an icon to the right of the divider to keep it visible.

macOS remembers where your icons are.

Show and collapse

  • Click the control button to show or collapse the icons. Its icon points in a different direction to show what the next click will do.
  • Turn on Reveal on hover to show the icons just by hovering over the control button.
  • Collapse again after: the icons collapse on their own 5 to 60 seconds after the pointer moves away (15 seconds by default), or Never.
  • Divider icon: choose one of 7 styles for the control button.
The Divider icon picker row with 7 styles

When hiding stops working

Click Reset on the Reset divider position row to move the divider back next to the OneNotch icon, then drag your icons again.

Notes

  • No permissions are needed.
  • This feature isn't available on macOS 27, because macOS 27 no longer lets this approach work reliably.

Also in Utilities