How can I hide the control center icon on the menubar on macos?

Asked Jan 14 '24 at 16:56

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Removing Control Center from the menubar would help free up space for my highly used tools like VPN's, iStat Menus, 1Pass, etc. Three years after Control Center was added in Big Sur, there still seems to be no way to hide it.

Historically we've seen methods to hide Spotlight and hide notification center before macOS supported hiding them, as well as other workarounds like:

Disabling core services underlying menubar icons in terminal (even disabling SIP)
Swapping system icon files with transparent pngs
Altering the menubar with via SystemUIServer, iirc the Jamf way
Simply holding cmd and dragging them off the menubar
Using apps specific to solving this problem, like Bartender.

Is there a way with Sonoma to hide the control center icon?

edited Jan 15 '24 at 08:52

Gilby

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asked Jan 14 '24 at 16:56

Josh Hibschman

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I've removed the "why" part of the question to avoid close votes. – nohillside Jan 14 '24 at 17:20
Appreciate it @nohillside -- I do hope someone can chime in on what it is in macOS that is different than past hacks – Josh Hibschman Jan 14 '24 at 17:35
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Given the content of that menu entry, Apple probably just wants to ensure it‘s always visible. I use Bartender to clean up the rest. – nohillside Jan 14 '24 at 18:08

How can I hide the control center icon on the menubar on macos?

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