Menu Bar

How to customize the Dock and menu bar of your Mac

Customize Dock and menu bar on your Mac

macOS lets you customize the Dock and menu bar effortlessly. Starting with macOS Big Sur and carried forward by its successor macOS Monterey, the System Preferences saw some revamp. You can figure out most of these changes on your own. But there are a few things you should know to get started.

So here, we’ll show you how to customize the Dock and menu bar on Mac.

Exploring your Mac’s Menu Bar: a beginner’s guide

MacBook desktop - learn the menu bar

If you’re a new Mac user, we want to help make your macOS experience as productive and efficient as it can be. From understanding the various icons, to customizing its layout, here are the basics of the menu bar that you need to know, along with some tips to help you use it more effectively.

How to add the weather forecast to your Mac menu bar

Seeing weather data from menu bar on Mac

The menu bar on your Mac is a handy spot to quickly see the date, time, or battery level, plus have fast access to your Notification Center, Spotlight Search, or Siri. So, why not have your weather conditions there too? Then at a glance, you can check the current temperature and click for your forecast.

Instead of opening a separate app to get these details, here’s how to add the weather forecast to your Mac menu bar.

How to display clocks for other time zones in your Mac menu bar

Day and time of cities in other time zones being displayed in the Mac menu bar

If like me you're working with people spread out across different time zones, figuring out what time it is for them in their specific location can quickly become confusing, especially when you take daylight savings time into account. The same may happen if your relatives are spread across the globe.

On your Mac, you can add a World Clock widget to the Today view, but I find this solution inelegant and not perfect since the time is shown as an analog clock without any indication of whether it's the morning, the afternoon, or even the same day in the time zones.

The advantage of adding another clock to the menu bar is convenience and immediacy. If the clock is in the menu bar, I can quickly glance at it without first having to launch any app or click on anything. It's right there.

CloudClip: Universal Clipboard for your Mac right now

Apple's newly-announced macOS Sierra is set to release to the public this Fall as the company revealed at WWDC 2016 this week, and it includes a variety of improvements that will make using your Mac even better than ever.

One of those improvements is Universal Clipboard, which is a Continuity feature that lets you share your clipboard between your iOS device(s) and your Mac.

But what if we told you that you didn't have to wait until the public release of macOS Sierra to enjoy a similar feature on your Mac?