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BIG Issue With The NEW MacBooks!

Simple Alpaca
3 min readOct 30, 2021

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Welcome back everyone, it looks like the brand new M1 MacBooks actually have a pretty big issue, and I’m curious to see how Apple’s going to fix this, and the specific issue is with the menu bar. So, there’s been a lot of people who’ve been pretty much making their menu bar completely full of these status bar icons, and there’s a lot of designated applications that actually allow you to take up space on your menu bar as a widget, and what happens is with the notch, it looks like some of these status bar icons actually come behind the notch. Now, this isn’t really like a crazy big deal for a majority of people I think because not a lot of them will take up that whole entire status bar, but this is a pretty big issue for people who actually utilize that status bar and fill it up with icons, and there’s kind of another issue with this specific menu bar placement as well because of how the notch works.

So right now you can put your mouse behind the notch, so I’m sure Apple didn’t really change any code or anything to take into account for that notch that’s now protruding from the top, so I’m pretty sure Apple will have to go ahead and fix this, but I’m trying to figure out in my head the best way they could, are they going…

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