Change Control Centre settings on Mac

• Wi-Fi

• Bluetooth^®

• AirDrop

• Focus

• Stage Manager

• Screen Mirroring

• Display

• Sound

• Now Playing

These items are always shown in Control Centre. You can choose when the corresponding status icons should also be shown in the menu bar.

Click the pop-up menu next to an item, then choose an option:

• Show in Menu Bar: Always show the status icon in the menu bar.

• Show When Active: Only show the status icon in the menu bar when the item is active. This option is available for Focus, Screen Mirroring, Display, Sound and Now Playing.

• Don’t Show in Menu Bar: Never show the status icon in the menu bar.

• Accessibility Shortcuts

• Battery

• Music Recognition

• Hearing

• Fast User Switching

• Keyboard Brightness

These items can be added to Control Centre and the menu bar.

Turn options below each item on or off. These options are available for each item:

• Show in Menu Bar: Always show the status icon in the menu bar.

• Show in Control Centre: Include the item in Control Centre.

Battery and Fast User Switching have additional options available.

If you’re using a Mac laptop and choose to show the Battery status icon in the menu bar, you can also show the percentage of battery charge (the percentage is always shown when Battery is in Control Centre).

To set menu bar options for Fast User Switching, click the pop-up menu next to Show in Menu Bar, then choose an option:

• Don’t Show: Don’t Show Fast User Switching in the menu bar.

• Full Name: Show the full name of the user in the menu bar.

• Account Name: Show the name of the user account in the menu bar.

• Icon: Show the Fast User Switching icon in the menu bar.

• Clock

The clock is always shown in the menu bar.

Click Clock Options, then choose how you want the date and time displayed.

• Below Date, click the “Show date” pop-up menu, then choose either Always, When Space Allows or Never. You can also choose whether to have the day of the week shown in the menu bar.

• Below Time, choose a clock style and other display options. You can also choose to have the time announced periodically with a voice of your choice.

• Spotlight

• Siri

• Time Machine

• VPN

These modules can be shown in the menu bar.

Click the pop-up menu next to a module, then choose an option:

• Show in Menu Bar: Always show the status icon in the menu bar.

• Don’t Show in Menu Bar: Never show the status icon in the menu bar.

Automatically hide and show the menu bar

Choose when to hide and show the menu bar:

• Always: Always hide and show the menu bar.

• On Desktop Only: Hide and show the menu bar when not using an app in full screen.

• In Full Screen Only: Hide and show the menu bar when using an app in full screen.

• Never: Never hide the menu bar.

Move the pointer to the top of the screen to show the menu bar when it’s hidden.

Recent documents, applications and servers

Choose how many items to show in the Recent Items menu command. Items you’ve used recently are listed in the Apple menu , so that you can easily open the items from there.

This setting also determines how many recent items appear in app menus, such as the Open Recent option in the File menu in TextEdit.