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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.

Add a splash of color to your Home screen’s 3D Touch shortcuts with ColorShortcuts

I often take advantage of the 3D Touch-based shortcuts on my Home screen to access vital features in my favorite apps, but I’ll be the first to admit that Apple’s native implementation of these menus looks somewhat bland out of the box.

Fortunately, a jailbreak tweak called ColorShortcuts by iOS developer Cole Cabral can fix that. Just as you might have inferred from the tweak’s name, ColorShortcuts will permit jailbreakers to colorize their 3D Touch menu shortcuts however they’d like.