MacOS 26 TAHOO: menu bar confused with double configurability

With MacOS 26 aka Taoe, Apple not only plastered Look & Feel of its MAC operating system in liquid glad design, but also screwed on a whole range of control areas. This also includes the menu bar icons and their control-as well as the way the control center now works. The changes do not necessarily follow logical principles. So there are several control centers now, if you want this, into which earlier functions have hiked from the menu bar. All in all, at least at the beginning, this looks quite chaotic. Here are some tips on how to work with it.

What is menu bar, what control center?

First, as usual, there are two separate areas for the menu stood control: the menu “menu bar” in the system settings and the control of the control center via “Edit control elements” (at the bottom of the open control center). If the control center is processed, all windows disappear in the background and you get a selection menu that captures all sorts of elements and luckily has a search.

Here you then go to the desired element and click it, but you can then select whether the element should be classified in the control center or the menu bar. Some of the menu bar icons such as Spotlight, WLAN, Bluetooth or sound are confusing only over “menu bars” in the system settings, although they often have an element in the control center in parallel.

Control center meets control center

What is new in MacOS 26 is that you can clink several control centers into the menu bar. As soon as you have “edit controls”, a plus appears in the menu bar. Each new control center can then be filled again with your own elements-and thus, for example, revive the short commands menu bar in MacOS 26 by building this in the form of controls.

Interestingly, you can dock as many control centers as you want – or how much space is. The icons can also be defined. The second, third and fourth control centers also look different from the well-known standard control center and work with the look known from iOS.