2022 MacBook Air + macOS 13.1 missing menu bar items

I'm not sure if this is a Ventura problem or a MacBook Air problem, but many of my menu bar items are missing. I think it's because their are so many of them that they bleed into the notch area around the camera and they don't continue to the left of the notch area. In the last visible menu bar spot just to the right of the notch, I can see a couple of them cycle through the different icons, but not all of them. Some, like Dropbox means if the menu bar item is missing you essentially cannot interact with the application. Others are just annoying that they are missing.


One way to work around this is to remove more things from the menu bar into the Control Center, but that's less convenient. Or I could shorten the date/time display but I also don't want to do that.


Maybe macOS 13.1 just isn't able to display menu bars with lots of items in them, but just hiding them doesn't seem like a good option at all.

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Posted on Dec 17, 2022 3:51 PM

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Jan 8, 2023 7:24 AM in response to AlWeir

Instead of a second monitor, using a higher resolution on your existing monitor. Granted the screen will appear shrunk, but you will fit more menu items on the menubar. If you are at your maximum resolution, see if the applications you use on the menubar can't be replaced by applications that don't use the menubar to run. You can also shrink the menubar for date and time to a smaller format if you want, and manually run many things through system settings and/or control center.

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