If you hold down the command key, you can drag most Apple menu bar icons off of the menu bar. Third party apps usually have a checkbox in some preference setting somewhere within their app that might be hard to find. According to Mark Gurman, Antonio Garcia Martinez has already been fired from Apple.
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- Pre-show:
- ⅔ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
- Colonial Pipeline
- Follow-up:
- Overpriced AirTag mounts
- Unattended restart with FileVault enabled
sudo fdesetup authrestart
- Or, optionally,
sudo fdesetup authrestart -delayminutes 5
softwareupdate -ia
- AppleTV and spatial audio
- AppleTV supports Wi-Fi 6
- Apple’s bad hire
- Epic vs. Apple, and internal emails
#askatp
- Hiding the Dropbox menu-bar icon? (via Jason Bates-Brownsword)
- Could one swap a SoC? (via Chandler Kent)
- How does one back up a MacBook without a Time Capsule? (via John Larson)
- Post-show: Marco tried to use Ruby
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