In fact, many of the System Preferences have icons you can add, and many applications will also use the menu bar so users have convenient access to features and functions. You can easily check your Mac’s energy status (particularly helpful if you’re using a laptop), or you can start Time Machine backups, or log into another account with fast user switching, etc.
Today, the menu bar lets you add all kinds of extra functionality to it. The menu bar can be extended with a wide array of clickable icons for quick access to system preferences. Of course, the menu bar has changed and its function has evolved, but the basics are all still there and it very much looks the same as it did back in 1984.
It’s not much to look at, but you can see the resemblance (image courtesy of Wikipedia). It really is an OS relic that just keeps going and going and going.
If you have ever heard anyone use the phrase “the more things change, the more they stay the same” then they could have been very well talking about Apple’s menu bar. The menu bar is extensible, though some users may not realize just how much, so we’ll show you the many ways you can add functionality to it. Apple’s operating system’s menu bar is truly old school it’s been around for as long as there have been Macintoshes.
