Always Hidden - How does it work?

[Drallas]

I'm not sure if it's and Issue or that I fail to understand the explanation how this works.

After I move an icon left from the grayed out | icon, I right click the > icon; but nothing gets hidden when I collapse the bar icons When I right click > again the moved icon is on the right of the grayed out | icon again.

What am I missing?

[viettrungphan]

Please make sure the position of menu bar buttons look like this:

Apps that you want to hidden | >

If arrow button > at the left hand side of separate bar | the app can't work.

[Drallas]

they hide but the always hidden ones don't hide!?

[viettrungphan]

Left click to toggle Alway hidden.

[Drallas]

Left click doesn't seem to work either and the 'help' (I clicked ? behind 'enable always hidden') shows :
'please right click on the collapse icon to make it disappear' I assume 'collapse icon' is the < icon.

So what do I need to right click exactly?

anyway right clicking < doesn't toggle Always Hide for me.

[garfolino]

It doesn't work for me either.

[studiohansen]

i tried out the permanent hiding. it worked. but suddenly i cant see these permanantly hides icons any mor and even not the second devider sign. cant reach these symbols any more - even not after uninstall hidden bar.
help!!!
with every new start of the system these symbols shortly shown up as a menu item, but get lost after a split second.
what can i do - i need them.
a new installation didnt help: now even the other hidden bar symbols are not shown - so i cant do anything...

my system: ventura 13.1 - macbook pro m1 max

[studiohansen]

i need immedeatly help. found out, that my mac onl shows max. 6 icons in the menu bar... showing all starting apps but only max 6 of them... without having hidden bar startet - permantly.
can i change this somewhere in the system? is there maybe a terminal command?
thank you for any help

[studiohansen]

I tried the permanent hiding. It worked. But suddenly I can no longer see these permanent icons and even the second separator. I can't reach these icons anymore - even after uninstalling the hidden bar.
Help!!!
With every restart of the system, these icons are briefly displayed as a menu item, but are lost after a fraction of a second.
What can I do - I need them.
A new installation didn't help: Now not even the other hidden bar icons are displayed - so there's nothing I can do....

[studiohansen]

I need help immediately. I found out that my Mac onl shows max 6 icons in the menu bar.... shows all start apps, but only max 6 of them... without starting the hidden bar - permanently.
Can I change this somewhere in the system? Is there perhaps a terminal command?
thanks for any help

[Drallas]

"I need help immediately" 🥺☹️
Perhaps ask it here. 😀

[Drallas]

Btw the original issue is resolved for me!

[zhang-stephen]

same issue, and how to solve it?

the blurred | disappeared after right-clicking the '>' icon.

[faxotherapy]

Hi, I still don't get it. I don't understand the difference between “always hidden” and “hidden”. I put a few icons in the “always hidden” section, and the only difference for me it's that those icons are now just icons put on the left side of the little bar. That's all. What's the purpose of this “always hidden” function? Is simple “hidden” not enought? In my case, simply “hidden” just works. Don't see the usefulness of simply “hidden”. Thanks for your help.

[franciscolourenco]

I've enabled always-hidden in the preference but still didn't figure out how to make the translucent pipe appear. Tried left/right clicking both the caret and pipe icons. Any tips?